Standard Establishment Through Scenarios (SETS): A new technique for occupational fitness standards

Abstract

The SETS method was developed as a systematic approach to setting occupational performance standards and qualifying information from SME.

Validity and reliability of physical employment standards

“…It is well established that a task analysis provides the foundation to developing a legally defensible PES (Rayson 2000; Gledhill et al 2001;Taylor and Groeller 2003;Jamnik et al 2010). It is critical that an objective and scientific task analysis is performed to ensure content validity of the tasks chosen (Blacklock et al 2015;Taylor et al 2015a). …”

“…SMEs have been used as a method of determining critical tasks (Reilly 2007;Jamnik et al 2010;Milligan 2013;Rogers et al 2014;Siddall et al 2014;Blacklock et al 2015;Taylor et al 2015a). An SME has been widely accepted as an incumbent and or supervisor with experience and thorough knowledge of a task.…”

“…SMEs are often employed to not only determine the critical tasks, but also to describe and confirm the MOBP for their execution, including the minimum acceptable pace/intensity of a task (Bilzon et al 2002;Reilly and Tipton 2005;Phillips et al 2012;Milligan 2013;Siddall et al 2014;Rogers et al 2014;Blacklock et al 2015;Taylor et al 2015a).…”

“…As a group, all 9 criteria must be represented within an SME panel, satisfying all the necessary areas of expertise (Blacklock et al 2015). It is recommended that SMEs represent task supervisors and incumbents across a range of ages, seniorities (e.g., rank), occupations, and sex (Lavin et al 2007;Rayson 2000;Bonneau 2001).…”

“…These experts should come from different areas of the job and represent a wide range of expertise (Siddall et al 2014;Blacklock et al 2015;Taylor et al 2015a). The Canadian Armed Forces have set criteria in the selection of SMEs, whereby an SME is identified by their ability to meet at least 2 of the 9 criteria outlined in Table 2 ( Blacklock et al 2015).…”