Is Your Potential Employee Fit to Work?
Pre-employment assessment are now commonplace to ensure that you are not risking injury to your future employees or even those employees returning form injury.

Pre-employment functional assessment or FCE (Functional Capacity Evaluation) provides you with a comprehensive array of information relating to a potential employee’s physical strength, flexibility and cardiovascular fitness. In simple terms, we can assess whether your employee is a high or low risk of work injury. It also helps your employee to understand if they can perform the tasks required within a job role. It may also assist you with matching a worker to a suitable task or roles within your company.
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The benefits of Pre-Employment Functional Assessment

  • Hire the right candidate: Improved ability in identifying if a potential or existing employee has the functional capacity to perform key critical functional demands of their proposed role.
  • Meet OHS Legislative Requirements: Greater focus on assessing an individual’s specific ability to safely perform the inherent requirements of the role, as opposed to performing a ‘general’ screen of movement and subjective factors.
  • Identify Risk: Improved identification of functional deficits that can be appropriately managed through risk management practices should you wish to pursue employment. Functional assessments are critical in determining if a candidate will be able to physically perform the role and if there are any underlying musculoskeletal injuries or restrictions that the potential employer should be aware of before making an offer.
  • Reduce Injuries: Injuries or reduced productivity can significantly impact a business both financially and operationally. Pre-employment screening can help you with hiring healthy and physically capable employees and is critical risk management process for any business.

A pre-employment functional assessment can be used in conjunction with a pre-employment medical assessment undertaken by a physiotherapist  
Life Physio can provide you with generic or specific pre-employment assessments depending on your needs. 
A work fitness assessment usually involves an examination of:
  • provides an evaluation of the condition and function of a worker’s musculoskeletal health, and any injuries that may impact on their ability to safely perform the inherent requirements of their job.
  • Overal posture & postural fatigue
  • Range of joint movement and muscle flexibility
  • Strength and endurance
  • Movement technique & quality:
    • Bending 
    • Lifiting
    • Reaching
    • Squatting
    • Stairs and ladders
  • Manual handling
  • Cardiovascular fitness test

​Why is Physiotherapist  the best provider to assess pre-employment capacity evaluation?
Physiotherapists are highly qualified health professionals who work in partnership with their patients to help people get better and stay well. 

Physiotherapists also work closely with GPs and other health clinicians to plan and manage treatment. GPs refer more patients to physiotherapists than any other healthcare profession. 

Using advanced techniques and evidence-based care, physiotherapists assess, diagnose, treat and prevent a wide range of health conditions and movement disorders. Physiotherapy helps repair damage, reduce stiffness and pain, increase mobility and improve quality of life. 

Physiotherapy extends from health promotion to injury prevention, acute care, rehabilitation, maintenance of functional mobility, chronic disease management, patient and carer education and occupational health.
 
Physiotherapist is trained to specified on how muscle and body structure work in-relation to perform the physical demands of specific duties as well as making recommendation about interventions such as safe manual handling.
 
Occupational health – supports the health and wellbeing of workers, reduces safety risks in the workplace, prevents and manages injuries and diseases, and support workers in returning to work.
How it works
1. Applicant arrives 15 minutes early to fill out Physiotherapy questionnaire and the ‘Personal Details’ . Physiotherapist/ receptionist MUST sight photographic identification .

2. Physiotherapist reviews task analysis provided by the HR Department to ensure understanding of the physical requirements of the job the applicant is applying for.

3. Physiotherapist reviews the completed questionnaire and ensures any YES answers are documented in detail. The Physiotherapist must ensure any current or pre-existing injuries are assessed thoroughly.

4. Physiotherapist will complete the Assessment and report

5. The Physiotherapist then sends a photocopy/fax of Assessment report to the employer/ referrer within 24 hours of completion.
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6. The Physiotherapist then files assessment report at their premises and bills to the appropriate employer/referrer.
Pricing
Assessment at the Clinic:  $150 +GST per assessment
Assessment at the employer's affiliate office (only available if there are from 6- 10 assesmsents per call out)
  • $150+Gst  per assessment
  • Travel: $100 +gst
Please contact us on 03 9949 5100 or email us on contact@lifephysio.com.au