Fitness-for-Duty Assessments for Industrial Firefighters

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Fitness-for-Duty Assessments for Industrial Firefighters
David Turner, BP Mark Glencross, BP David Cathcart, BP

This panel discussion will feature four physicians participating in the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine Presidential Task Force. The mandate of the Task Force is to assess the potential to contribute to a guidance document for assessing the fitness-for-duty of industrial firefighters. Included in the discussion will be such topics as the benefits of preventive activities for firefighters, task-specific metabolic data obtained on firefighters participating in training activities during fire school, and practical experience in implementing an industrial firefighting fitness-for-duty standard.

Presented by:

David Turner, BP
Dr. David Turner is the US Medical Director for BP, board-certified in Occupational Medicine, and a Fellow in the College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

Mark Glencross, BP
Mark Glencross is the Gulf of Mexico Health Director for BP in Houston, Texas.

David Cathcart, BP
David Cathcart is the health director for the petrochemical companies of BP US where he supports the Cooper River, SC, and Texas City, TX locations. David's role is to promote a culture of health and safety by seeking best practices and standardizing them across the petrochemicals division.