Pre-employment advisory service
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Engaging in a recruitment process with a well-designed pre-employment medical protocol enhances the likelihood of hiring workers who can meet the specific job requirements at an acceptable level of risk - essential both to you as the employer, and to the worker.
Engaging in a recruitment process with a well-designed pre-employment medical protocol enhances the likelihood of hiring workers who can meet the specific job requirements at an acceptable level of risk - essential both to you as the employer, and to the worker.
The goal of the pre-employment medical is to determine whether an individual is fit to perform their job without risk to themselves or others.
The benefits of conducting pre-employment medicals include:
- Provide important information regarding a candidate's prior medical history, pre-existing and/or current injuries and conditions
- Increase likelihood of a reduction in workplace injuries
- Increase likelihood of a reduction in workers compensation claims costs
- Ensure you match the physical capacity of a worker to the role
- Identify any unknown medical conditions which the candidate may not be aware of, allowing earlier intervention and possible prevention of future medical complications
- Improved overall health and wellbeing of the workforce
- Improve safety and wellbeing culture in your workplace
LGIS can provide expert advice around pre-employment medicals to ensure your local government identifies the most suitable candidates during the recruitment process.
Advisory services include:
- Assistance with design, implementation and review of pre-employment medical protocol and requirements
- New program design and implementation
- Review of current process and provision of recommendations for improvements
- Training and education on common terms and injuries
- Advice on functional capacity assessments
- Assessment requirements for specific job roles
- Assistance with interpretation of assessments/medical ratings
- Review of high risk pre-employment medicals
- Flagged medical ratings – previous injury, poor physical capacity, risk factor identification
- High risk job roles – high rates of injury, high manual task risk rating
- Provide advice on key risk areas for job roles
- Enabling your local government to make the best judgement call on worker suitability for the job role
- Provide advice on appropriate workplace strategies for risk prevention and management such as manual handling training, ergonomic assessments and worksite assessments