WorkSTEPS® Employment Testing Services
Every employment decision poses risk. Laws such as the Americans with Disabilities Act and Family and Medical Leave Act have changed forever how employers qualify new hires and respond to injured workers.
WorkSTEPS was developed to meet a critical employer need – to create medically safe, legally compliant, scientific, and objective means of matching a worker's functional capabilities wiht the essential functions of the job.
WorkSTEPS' system of standardized, pre- and post-offer, fit-for-duty, functional capacity, and upper quadrant/carpal tunnel tests is currently being utilized by employers nationwide.
Employers utilizing WorkSTEPS in their comprehensive prevention and work injury management programming are experiencing average work injury reductions of 50% during the first year of implementation with continued reductions in the second and third years. WorkSTEPS clients can expect reduced modifier rates, reductions in lost time, increased worker productivity, decreased turnover, and diminished incidences of fraud and abuse. And, the employees will be safer!
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WorkSTEPS establishes functional testing as a foundation for hiring, fit-for-duty, and return-to-work programs. WorkSTEPS significantly reduces incidences and costs related to work injuries by:
- Appropriately matching employees to the essential functions of the job
- Expediting safe, early return to work
- Supplying objective data that results in case resolution for disputed workers' compensation cases
Test services include:
- Post offer
- Fit-for-duty
- Upper quandrant/carpal tunnel evaluation
- Functional capacity evaluations (FCE)
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