Pre-employment Physical Assessment

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Pre-employment Physical Assessment

Pivotal Motion Physiotherapy offer pre-employment physical assessments.

Benefits of a pre-employment physical assessment

If you have been made an offer of employment, the employer may ask you to have a pre-employment physical assessment if the job has physical requirements such as heavy lifting, kneeling, or levels of exertion like climbing stairs or walking long distances.

This is a normal procedure that is widely used by companies, to ensure that you are suitable for the job and to minimise the risk of musculoskeletal injury. It can identify any physical restrictions from the beginning of an employment agreement, so that training can be provided as appropriate. It can also identify any changes or modifications to the workplace to meet the Equality Act.

As a result, it can:

• Reduce injuries
• Increase productivity
• Reduce sickness leave
• Provide baseline data on the health of individuals which helps to identify when a subsequent injury has recovered (ie. return to pre-injury state).

What to expect

The assessment is a simple procedure that consists of a series of objective functional tests for mobility, strength, flexibility and fitness. Other areas that are assessed are balance, heart rate on exertion and lifting ability.

The assessment takes approximately 30 minutes.

What happens next?

The results are compared to the job demands to assist with decisions regarding job placement, task redesign and other risk management strategies. The physiotherapist does not decide whether the person gets the job or not.