Workplace Health Assessments Services

Standard workplace assessment

This is the most common form of our workplace assessments and is used primarily if you wish to identify duties an injured employee can safely perform on their return to work. It can also be used if you identify areas of concern in your workplace which you wish to have objectively measured for physical requirements. Our specially trained physiotherapist will review the tasks and accurately quantify the physical demands of those jobs, summarising the findings in a written report for easy reference. Time required will be dependant on the number and nature of the tasks needing assessment.

Brief workplace assessment

When just one or two tasks need reviewing you may only require a Brief Workplace Assessment. During a brief visit you receive on the spot advice and recommendations but no written report unless requested.

Full workplace assessment and inherent duties manual

An extension of our Standard Workplace Assessment, this involves more detailed assessment of large parts or all of your workplace. It will provide you with a complete analysis of all the physical demands of your workplace.

The information is then used to create an Inherent Duties Manual, which can be easily accessed in the event of an injury to quickly and accurately inform health professionals about the demands of the work place. It effectively becomes an alternative duties manual guiding return to work plans. It also provides you with a list of Key Physical Requirements needed by current or prospective employees to safely perform tasks in your workplace. This information is then easily used during ongoing health evaluation or pre-employment assessment.

The aim of such a comprehensive assessment is to identify tasks which may place your workers at risk of injury and to identify ways to modify those tasks. Knowing the physical demands of your workplace contributes enormously to an ongoing injury prevention strategy and when returning an injured worker to appropriate duties. It will allow you to identify key physical requirements that prospective or current employees must have before they can safely perform particular tasks.

Time allocation is directly related to the number of tasks evaluated, with additional time needed to prepare an inherent duties manual.