Pre-Employment Assessment
Article by John Miller


Pre-Employment Functional Assessment
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.
A pre-employment functional assessment can be used in conjunction with a pre-employment medical assessment undertaken by a doctor.
PhysioWorks can provide you with generic or specific pre-employment assessments depending on your needs.
A work fitness assessment usually involves an examination of:
- 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
To discuss your pre-employment needs including drug and alcohol testing, please contact PhysioWorks.