WorkSTEPS takes great pride in offering a suite of outcome validated, individualized, objective functional capacity tests for every stage of employment and injury management: New Hire, Existing Employee, and Injured Worker. The following services were created by WorkSTEPS in response to an industry need for safety in the workplace.
From what need did WorkSTEPS begin? Does your company have the same need?
Every employment decision is a function of risk assessment and management. New laws have forever changed how employers qualify new hires and respond to injured workers. The WorkSTEPS Program was developed in response to an industry need for reliable, medically and legally defensible, employment testing programs. With WorkSTEPS, hundreds of industries have been able to effectively reduce work place injury incidence and work place injury costs.
Functional Employment Testing Objectives:
- Determine worker capability for new hires
- Based on individual ability
- Founded upon objective, unimpeachable data
- Establish realistic treatment goals post injury
- Expedite return to work
- Periodic evaluation of existing workers
- Verify true extent of injuries
Competitive components of the various WorkSTEPS® Employment Tests:
- Legally Compliant
- Content valid testing based on individualized Essential Job Functions (EJF)
- Built in sincerity of effort evaluation
- Non-discriminatory and consistent
- Safe
- Built in safeguards to eliminate injury during test
- Controlled and conducted according to exact EJF specifications
- Scientific
- Comprised of testing criteria that have been peer-reviewed and published
- Testing bibliography Includes studies supported by NIOSH, AMA, and CDC
PROVEN BENEFITS – of many – to the employer:
- Cost savings
- Documented efficacy in reduction of workplace injury
- Successful litigation of fraudulent injury claims
LEGITIMATE SETTLEMENTS – based on WorkSTEPS testing data:
“Apportionment”: defined as an employer’s responsibility only to return an injured worker to the condition that existed at the time of his or her employment.
- Based solely upon WorkSTEPS objective testing data, a workers compensation request for temporary partial and temporary total disability were denied to a claimant in Oklahoma City, OK, finding that the claimant’s problems and symptomology were not related to his work-related injury.
- In the first court case involving WorkSTEPS data, an employee seeking $1.2 million in compensation received a
jury award of only $22,000.00 for medical services and legal fees, based primarily upon pre-existing condition data recorded during the WorkSTEPS testing of the employee.
WorkSTEPS is the industry leader in fields such as:
