Pre-Hire Physical Ability Test Services for Warehouses

These statistics are not surprising when you consider the nature of the work. It involves:

• lots of materials handling (lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling)
• lots of reaching into overhead racks
• bending down to reach into low racking
• fast-paced and repetitive work

Employees are often compensated based on speed or pick rate, with the work sometimes being conducted on slippery surfaces, or climbing on and off equipment. The resulting injuries include low back and neck strains and sprains, torn rotator cuffs, slips, trips and falls and tendonitis of the hand, wrist and elbow. The list goes on… Effect on KPIs: With the average strain/sprain or slip/trip/fall costing $40K in direct costs alone, the work comp costs go on and on. Beyond the direct medical and indemnity costs, how do these injuries affect your organizations KPIs? When you have to hire temporary replacement workers or ask current employees to put in over time, what does that do to:

• Receiving productivity and cycle time?
• Putaway productivity and cycle time?
• Picking productivity and cycle time?
• Order lead time?
• Accuracy of receiving, putaway and picking?

ErgoScience has the proof. As an expert in physical abilites tests for warehouses and distribution facilities, ErgoScience has data that proves what we do works. Take a look at the following example.

• This client in the automotive parts distribution warehousing business came to us for testing in 2007 and gradually rolled out warehouse workers physical abilities testing across all locations by 2008.
•  They have experienced an 89% decrease in the annual average number of injuries sustained, going from a 10-year average of 53 injuries per year to an average of a mere 6 injuries per year!
• And they saved an average of 90% on their work comp costs with a warehouse  assessment test!

A fulfillment center assessment can help you determine the best safety practices to maximize your current employees’ productivity and improve safety. Need to find the most suitable employees? A pre-employment lift test can help. ErgoScience can create a warehouse physical abilities assessment test tailored to the unique demands of your facility. Be proactive with a lift test for pre-employment screening for potential hires.