The ADA and Physical Abilities Testing: What You Need to Know
Physical abilities testing offers employers, especially those in physically demanding industries, an important tool for evaluating the qualifications of potential new employees. However, many employers wonder just how physical ability test programs square with ADA regulations. Can companies use these tests without running afoul of those regulations? The answer is yes, so long as the […]
Pre Employment Screening for Workplace Safety: Staying on the Safe Side of the Law
Given the human and financial costs of work-related injuries, preventing injuries and workplace safety is a big deal for any employer. However, for employers in industries that place particularly heavy physical demands on workers, those concerns are vital. Workers in more physically stressful jobs – heathcare, warehousing, utilities, oil and gas production, law enforcement or […]
Preventing the Most Common Workers’ Compensation Frauds
According to the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud, worker’s compensation costs have not only been rising steadily – and steeply – each year, they’re also riddled with billions of dollars worth of fraud. This makes preventing workers’ compensation cases, and the injuries from which they result, a priority. So how can companies prevent the most common workers’ compensation […]
Housekeeping + Physical Abilities Testing = Workplace Safety
“Little Women” author Louisa May Alcott wasn’t kidding: “Housekeeping ain’t no joke”, she famously said. And it’s true—both at home, and now in the workplace, where ongoing housekeeping and materials management processes go a long way toward preventing slips, trips and falls in the workplace. But “good housekeeping” is not enough. There are workplace hazards related to […]
How Pre-Employment Physical Testing Can Prevent Common Workers’ Comp Claims
Workplace injuries that result in workers’ comp claims can mean big costs for businesses and big worries for the injured party. So if an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, stopping injuries before they happen should be near the top of every employer’s list. Today we’ll look into the most common injuries that lead […]
How Pre Employment Testing Impacts Corporate Bottom Line
As every business owner and human resources professional knows, hiring is always a gamble. No matter how careful or thorough you are in gathering and validating candidate information, things can be missed, and those oversights can be costly. It’s a perennial problem, and why pre employment testing—especially physical abilities testing, which gives employers a clear picture of […]
Pre Employment Testing: A Rising Trend in Business Today
It’s no secret that when it comes to hiring the right candidate for the job, the traditional interview is little more effective than flipping a coin. In fact, HR professionals estimate that they themselves, even when at their best, are only about 60% effective in making the right call. That’s a pretty blunt instrument for […]
ErgoScience adds drug/alcohol screening to employee testing suite, with EDPM partnership
ErgoScience, a national provider of physical abilities tests for employers, health care providers, and insurance carriers, announces a partnership for drug-free workplaces with EDPM, a national drug/alcohol testing company. ErgoScience helps employers create a safer, more profitable and productive workplace through the use of research-proven physical abilities testing. EDPM protects the health of its partners businesses […]
Pre-Employment Testing Aligns Worker Ability to Job Requirements and Avoids Injuries
Pre-employment testing to determine the physical abilities of an applicant adds a level of verification into the hiring process that self-reported data from a job candidate simply can’t provide. A 2005 report by ADP found that when actively checking references, 49% of their investigations revealed a difference in the information the applicant provided and what […]
Workplace Ergonomics: What to Expect from a Job Analysis
Ergonomics in the workplace is an important concept because your employees are important. Some jobs are inherently physically demanding, but even desk jobs can present ergonomic challenges. Whether you’re in a hiring phase and want to ensure new employees are up to the physical demands of a job in the screening process or your organization […]
