Emergency Breathing System (EBS) Fit to Train medical

The EBS Fit to Train medical considers health conditions that may affect your fitness to breath compressed gas during training.

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Do you also need an OGUK or Emergency Response Team (ERT) medical? We may be able to do it at the same time as EBS.

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Find out more about OGUK medical certification

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Attending your medical

  • Please come to your medical wearing comfortable clothes you can move easily in as you may be required to do a step test.
  • Please remember to bring photographic ID.
  • Avoid loud noise for 16 hours before your medical as this may affect your hearing test.
  • You will be asked to provide a urine sample as part of the medical. This is not a drugs test.

You will need to bring:

  • Photo ID (passport, driving licence or Seaman’s Discharge Book).
  • GP’s name, surgery address and contact details.
  • Details of any medication you’re taking.
  • Your glasses or contact lenses if you wear them (though not colour correction lenses). You will need to remove contact lenses during examination.
  • Your previous medical certificate if you have one.
  • Comfortable footwear and clothes to enable you to undertake exercise test if needed.
The appointment usually lasts 30–40 minutes
  • Urine sample so that your kidney function and blood sugar levels can be tested.
  • Measure your height and weight.
  • Take your blood pressure
  • Test your eyesight and check for colour blindness.
  • Physical examination – you will be asked to undress to your underclothes.
  • If you have any previous medical history then the doctor will discuss this with you too.
  • Sometimes other tests are needed such as a step test, an ECG or spirometry (breathing test).
The doctor will discuss and usually issue you with your EBS certificate that same day.

An EBS Fit to Train certificate can be valid for up to 2 years (1 year if you are aged between 16 and 18). If you develop a condition or a disability (mental or physical) which affects your ability to work the certificate would become invalid.

You can have your OGUK medical at the same time as EBS Fit to Train. Find out more >

Please see the questions page if you have any more queries about your appointment with North Yorkshire Medicals.
And if your question isn’t covered there, please do not hesitate to contact us.