The assessment

Pre-employment physical screening is an objective functional assessment of a person's ability to perform the essential physical demands of a job and is widely recognised as an important part of injury prevention.

BodyCare’s tailored assessment assists employers to provide a safe working environment by ensuring their prospective employees are physically suited to the job. This ultimately assists in reducing an employer’s premiums associated with workplace injuries and lost time.

Benefits to the Employer:

• Ensures functional competence for work tasks resulting in less injuries;
• Provides record of pre-employment capacity affording some protection against false claims of injury;
• Record of pre-employment capacity helps to identify when a subsequent injury has recovered (i.e. return to pre-injury state);
• BodyCare’s online client portal provides you with an up to date assessment summary emailed to you immediately after the assessment is completed;
• Identifies risk factors of an individual prior to employment;
• The ease of one monthly account

Each assessment is designed to run for approximately 30-45 minutes and is divided into 4 parts.

Part A: Detailed subjective history including the following:

1. Past Work History
2. Medical History
3. Relevant Risk Factors
4. Neck (Cervical), Mid-back (Thoracic), Lower Back (Lumbar) History
5. Shoulder / Elbow / Wrist / Arm History
6. Hip / Knee / Ankle / Leg History
7. Functional History

Part B: Testing of flexibility, strength and manual handling abilities:

1. Lifting and carrying of different loads
2. Grip Strength
3. Repetitive Lifting
4. Lifting techniques
5. Lower Limb Flexibility and Strength
6. Upper Limb Flexibility and Strength
7. Cervical, Thoracic & Lumbar Flexibility and Strength

Part C:

1. Job Rating
2. Assessment Summary outlining parts A and B
3. Recommendation for the position

Part D: Pathology Testing

1. Job Rating
2. Urine drug screening
3. Blood Pressure
4. Vision screening
5. Hearing screening
6. Confined space screening