The primary reason for an employer to utilise employment health assessments is to ensure the people they are intending to employ or currently employing, are physically able to do the work they are employing them to do.

Australian Workforce Assessors offer a large variety of employment health assessments and associated services including:

• Pre-Employment
• Annual / Bi-annual
• Assessment to Drive
• Exit Medical
• Functional Capacity Evaluation
• Return To Work
• Co-ordination of GP services

These assessments can be carried out either at our offices throughout Tasmania or onsite at your location.

Our employment health assessments are specifically designed to match potential and current employee’s physical capabilities with specific job tasks.

When utilised with either annual or bi-annual health surveillance, employment health assessments are useful tools when allocating tasks to employees. Knowledge of capabilities and limitations is a major benefit to minimise exposure to risk.

The Workplace Health & Safety Act 1995 places specific responsibilities on employers to exercise “duty of care” towards employees. Utilising employment health assessments demonstrates an employer’s commitment to exercising “duty of care”.

Our employment health assessments also provide a useful tool for employers when seeking renewal of workers compensation premiums, by demonstrating to insurers practical steps taken by an employer to minimise exposure to risk.

By providing benchmark data to employers, employment health assessments can prove beneficial when attempting to return employees to work, following workplace injuries.

If you require further information regarding our employment health assessments, please contact us at our offices.