Post Offer Assessment/Fitness For Duty Assessment

Post Offer Assessments

Post Offer Assessments (formerly called Pre-employment Screenings) are usually administered after a formal offer of employment has been established. The Post Offer Assessment is normally used for the following purposes:

• As a selection tool to ensure that potential employees have the physical abilities to perform the essential physical demands associated with a specific job.
• As a selection tool to assign new employees to job classifications, which match their current physical abilities.
• To establish a baseline or benchmark of the physical abilities and functions for all new employees.

Fitness For Duty Assessment

A Fitness For Duty Assessment is an objective measurement of an employee's ability to perform the essential physical demands associated with his/her regular job. The essential physical demands are determined using the information obtained from a Physical Demands Analysis (PDA).

A Fitness For Duty Assessment may be utilized under the following conditions:

• Employee first indicates that he/she is having difficulty or is unable to perform the physical tasks normally associated with their regular duties
• On a regular basis for any employee participating in a transitional work program (frequency of testing will depend on the type of work performed and the type of injury sustained)
• Periodically as part of an injury prevention program

A Fitness For Duty Assessment combined with a Physical Demands Analysis provides the objective evidence necessary to match an injured employee with an appropriate job and gradually return the employee to their regular duties.

A Fitness For Duty Assessment is an ideal assessment to OBJECTIVELY complete the WSIB Functional Ability Form (FAF).

Please contact john@movewell.ca to arrange a complimentary consultation regarding our Post offer/Fitness for Duty Assessments