Improve compliance and hiring outcomes and reduce work-related injuries with KINNECT’s pre-employment functional tests.
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KINNECT’s occupational health team include physiotherapists, occupational therapists and exercise physiologists to ensure pre-employment functional tests provide accurate clinical data about a worker’s physical capabilities to make your hiring decisions easier.
Why Undertake Pre-Employment Functional Tests?
By incorporating KINNECT’s pre-employment functional testing into your recruitment process, your organisation will benefit from:
- Hiring the right candidate, first time – functional testing allows you to identify a candidate’s ability to perform physical aspects of the role, thereby minimising workforce attrition if the candidate finds the work too difficult.
- Meeting OHS legislative requirements – assessing an individual’s specific ability to perform the role safely ensures you are compliant with current rules.
- Having consistently valid and reliable testing – KINNECT’s occupational health professionals conduct all tests and procedures in the same way, ensuring data is accurate.
- Identifying potential risks before an incident occurs – data from functional tests allows you to identify deficits that can be appropriately managed to reduce the risk of workplace injury should you wish to employ the candidate.
How it Works
A pre-employment functional is an evaluation of an individual’s physical capacity to perform the demands of a certain job safely.
KINNECT offer a standard pre-employment functional test, which includes the following testing:
- Par-Q Questionnaire – this is a physical activity readiness questionnaire which ascertains whether the candidate is fit to perform a functional. Indicators include whether the candidate is currently experiencing chest pain, dizziness or other health concerns that may preclude them from testing.
- Height, Weight, BMI and Blood Pressure
- Grip Strength – grip strength is measured in kilograms with both left and right hands tested. The result is dependent on the candidate’s biological gender and is compared to the grip strength norms for their age.
- Musculoskeletal Special Tests
- Postural Tolerances – maintaining a (balanced) kneel and squat for 30 seconds or greater
- Cardiovascular Fitness Step Test – 3 minutes with a step height of 30.5cm
- Lifting – floor to shoulder (4 reps)
- Carrying – waist to waist (2 reps x 20m)
- Job Specific Testing
In our experience, pre-employment functionals provide maximum benefit when based upon the specific physical requirements of an applicant’s proposed role.
We can work with you to develop job-specific testing by reviewing your company’s existing job dictionaries or job task analyses. If these documents aren’t available, KINNECT can work in consultation with you to develop them.
Click here to learn more about how a job dictionary can assist in injury prevention and management.
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How long does a Pre-Employment Functional assessment take?
Depending on the level of assessment, most pre-employment functionals take between 30 and 60 minutes to perform the tasks. A pre-employment medical assessment can be undertaken at the same time if required.
Who performs the Pre-Employment Functional assessment?
Tertiary qualified and registered Allied Health Professionals:
- Occupational Therapists
- Physiotherapists
- Accredited Exercise Physiologists
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Contact us to request more information about pre-employment functional assessments or book online in our Click and KINNECT Shop*.
*Online bookings for single tests only.
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