Staff recruitment can be a costly and resource intensive exercise, but if organisations don’t get it right and protect themselves and their employees by ensuring pre-employment medical checks are carried out as part of the recruitment process, costs will inevitably be incurred.

Pre-employment medical checks provide a baseline understanding of the health status of job applicants. They provide the prospective employer assurance of the suitability of an individual worker to a particular job role, and determine if applicants are fit and capable of carrying out the tasks of the position for which they are being recruited.

Such medical information is vital to ensuring new recruits are not being set up to fail. Because we are passionate about this, all of our pre –employment medicals cover standard  functional capacity assessments and summary reports for third party contractors to ensure as much as possible is done to minimize the likelihood of manual handling injuries such as sprains and back injuries that would lead to worker’s compensation claim.  For example, there’s no point in employing someone who has a tiny frame with little strength to a position that consists of heavy manual handling all day; it would only be a matter of time before manual handling injuries occur.

As a company, Occuhealth understands the need for risk based health assessments and have designed our pre employment medical screening to best ensure that the employee does not injure themselves as work by being un-fit for the job. 

Occuhealth Pre-employment medicals are performed by a team of qualified and experienced Healthcare Professionals, and the Standard Pre-employment medical includes medical history questionnaire plus thorough physical examination including assessments of:

• Height, weight, BMI
• Blood pressure
• Vision
• Urinalysis
• Cardiovascular
• Nervous systems
• Gastrointestinal
• Skin
• Respiratory
• Ear/Nose/Throat
• Functional capacity

Other health surveillance services available include:

• Spirometry
• ECG
• Audiometric  hearing tests
• Instant or Laboratory drug and alcohol screen
• Musculoskeletal functional assessment
• Respirator and earplug fit testing

Upon completion of the medical assessment, prospective employers will receive a written report informing of the candidate’s suitability for the tasks envisaged, including an indication of whether issues raised are likely to be of concern in the workplace, or can be accommodated without major impact.

Employers can be assured they are making sound recruitment decisions.

Occuhealth’s medical assessments can be tailored to suit individual client needs, and discounts apply for combined health services. Make sure they are fit for the job. Appointments are available NOW at our Perth, Mandurah and mobile locations.

For total health and hygiene solutions, contact Occuhealth on +61 8 9537 5700, fit.test@occuhealth.com.au or visit www.occuhealth.com.au