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