WorkFit -Physical Assessment System
WILL REDUCE your number of employee workplace injuries WILL CUT your Workers` Compensation claims and payouts! The WorkFit System? post-offer, pre-placement physical evaluation is a comprehensive "head-to-toe" appraisal of your candidate`s ability to perform the job`s essential physical functions without injuring themselves due to a physical limitation or a pre-existing injury. If any such exist, WorkFit? indicates "reasonable accommodations". And YES, our 70+ Check Points WorkFit? Health Survey is 100% ADA compliant! This is a field-proven strategy that works as effectively as stated above and described below! Learn now about our unique "Workers` Comp Claims Reducer", The WorkFit System?!
How To Avoid Workplace Injuries And Reduce Workers Compensation Claims
If you hire employees for "HIGH-RISK-for-INJURY" jobs and DO NOT require them to have a comprehensive post-offer, pre-placement PHYSICAL EVALUATION...
Then, you are potentially making very expensive mistakes in your hiring and job placement protocol! Believe it...because U.S. Workers` Comp statistics prove it!
If you DO require job candidates to have a comprehensive post-offer, pre-placement physical evaluation, great!
But if you are paying more than $45 each for them, you are paying TOO MUCH!
Our unique Workers` Compensation Cost-Containment Strategy helped a Fortune 1000 Company
SAVE $540,000* in Workers` Comp claims payouts!
How did we do it??
By dramatically REDUCING the number of workplace INJURIES sustained by their NEW-HIRES,
The WorkFit System? physical evaluations
CUT their "5-year`s average" of yearly Workers` Comp CLAIM COSTS by a FULL 69.0%!To receive an 8 pages detailed report of the phenomenal results of this field-test study of The WorkFit System? effectiveness...
as was prepared and documented by the company`s own Workers` Compensation insurance carrier, AIG* (unedited by OHS) CLICK HERE
How to Reduce Workers Compensation Claims.
Multiple national studies have shown that between 8-15% of "new-hires" have a prior medical history of one or more physical limitations that could easily affect their safe performance in a new job position. This is a quite serious statistic that varies up or down only to the degree of physical effort and stress associated with the physical requirements of the job.
This means that if your new-hires are NOT properly placed or reasonably accommodated, this 8-15% of your new-hires may succumb to an early on-the-job injury to themselves. This can only result in an early Workers’ Compensation claim!
What is meant by an "early" Workers’ Compensation claim? It`s "within the first 90 days" of your new-hire starting their new job with you. "Within the first `30` days" can be especially critical if the new-hire is one of the 8-15% already with a pre-existing musculoskeletal disorder (MSD) or other type physical limitation that could be easily exacerbated by performing the functions of the new job without proper "accommodation" when placed.
Your new-hires may actually be unaware of the severity of their pre-existing physical limitations! According to US Department of Labor findings, this can be true of new-hires that have been working in the field, performing the exact same job for 1-3 years.
Meaning this: early injuries are not always solely the hiring company’s (your) fault! Oftentimes, the "early" injury in your workplace is an exacerbation of a previous on-the-job injury incurred while working for a previous employer. However, that new-hire`s "new" injury, when later incurred and reported on your company`s time-clock, will end up costing your company some serious health and rehab expenses!
How can you avoid that employee downtime and the associated costs??
You have three (3) options to choose from when determining whether to hire new employees and risk Workers’ Compensation claims.
- Don’t hire anyone new. Ever.
- Hire without knowing anything about their health history, and keep your fingers crossed they are not among the 8-15% of candidates with a pre-existing musculoskeletal disorder (MSD) or other physical limitation.
- Use The WorkFit System? new-hire evaluation and place them with the confidence that comes with knowing they ARE physically fit for the position. And if they are NOT...know in advance what reasonable accommodation can help keep them SAFE while working in the position!
Many companies choose the second option simply for budgetary reasons, believing the cost of pre-placement physical evaluation "insurance" is unnecessary. This is short-sighted and will be a more expensive decision in the long-run.
The budget-smart, -budget-saving choice is option "3". National Workers` Comp statistics confirm this is absolutely true!