Fitness Assessment

Fitness Training & Assessment

The most important resource for any emergency response organisation is its personnel. Maintaining fire fighter fitness to the required level in such highly challenging and hazardous environments is vital for employers and employees.

The team at Hexcel have designed Fit-Lab, a fully integrated computerised system, that operates as a highly efficient managment tool, to accurately assess individual fitness levels in accordance with recommended standards.

Fit-Lab replicates, as near as possible, the occupational fitness demands for the role of an operational fire fighter and features the following:

Impact Machine

• Specially designed to achieve pull down training
• Programmable controls to track number of repetitions performed
• Tracks complete pull down exercise
• Exercises and builds the upper body power necessary for excavation of victims in actual rescue situations

Endless Ladder

• Specially designed for emergency responder ladder climb preparedness
• Features dedicated program to control the amount of ladder climb
• Safety features with interlock
• Tracks and records distance climbed and duration taken

Bicycle

• specially programmed bicycle to attain and maintain speed
• Alarm system to capture speed attainment
• Notification during capturing failure
• Preset resistance focuses on thigh power
• Supports development for performing ladder scaling and victim excavation situations

Treadmill

• Specially modified and programmed to deliver the best cardio training available
• Programmable control functions allow for tracking of timing and distance travelled over a specific time
• Safety features with interlock

Maze Cage

• Specialist seach and rescue training rig to replicate crawling through obstacles in limited visability
• Optional tunnels, cat ladders, hatches and other restricting cross-sections
• Reusable and easily convertible to a range of configurations
• Ability to vary conditions including smoke effect and raised temperature environment