MADRID, 29 (EUROPA PRESS)
Demand for effort that requires the forest firefighter is higher than expected and that the described so far, as it has noted the research group on assessment of the condition physics of the University of León, just published an article in the scientific journal ' Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health ' where this capacity of Member of the reinforcement brigades of forest fires (BRIF) analyzes the extinction of fires.
A new job within the research project factors factors of performance of the personnel specialist in forest firefighting (PEEIF), has as main novelty have been conducted in actual fire conditions and not through simulation
As explained to DiCYT Professor José Gerardo Villa Vicente, and collect scientific information SINC platform, “through the company Tragsa and workers that voluntarily, have wanted to participate in the study, have compiled information about forest fires.” “This way, have come to analyze about 200 subjects and some 15 fires for each”.
For this study specialists conducted a stress test in the laboratory of the research group on assessment of the physical condition of the University of León. Over four years, the researchers and the University of León have controlled more than 2,000 forest fires has graded depending on the hour.
“Where the fire could be voluntary forest officials took a capsule of temperature that recorded both its core temperature variations along the intestinal transit, for about 24-48 hours until that is [them] selves”, points out Villa. This expert, says that in this way has been getting the most important fact, “how influence thermal conditions and the effort that the person performs in the core temperature of the body”.
In addition, bearing in mind that the team lead, increases the weight between 6 and 20 kilos, settled them temperature sensors and temperature sensors internal within the t-shirts and the monkey work, to know how moisture will accumulate and how the body temperature varies.
“Through the sensors cannot know to what extent that prevents the thermal Exchange with the skin and therefore the dissipation of heat.” “We have even included heat flux sensors that measure the flares or the current convective heat they receive,” points out.
Once obtained the data, the information has centralized, cleaned and analyzed based on the variables you want to study. As pointed out by the investigator, “almost always looking to know what kind of effort has meant forest agent work and we try to detail aspects, as we are doing at the moment, as if the fuel type differs to the effort they have to make the worker or if more or less abrupt terrain also requires higher levels of effort”.
Given that these workers are required to a particular physical condition, the scientific team is check “in extent a greater or lesser preparation not only improve performance but also the health and the safety of forest agents”. Through these studies, what was not collected in the literature, have established a number of indices of work that have moved to the plans of physical training of these workers.
