Functional Employment Assessment Model. Statistics prove that the best way to treat any injury or illness is to prevent it from ever occurring. However, there are many debates about what interventions are the most effective and which ones achieve the highest measures of success. It has been my experience as a recognized expert in the field of occupational and industrial medicine, that the single highest degree of injury reductions is accomplished through functional testing. Functional testing is a bio-ergonomic intervention that measures human strength and performance, and appropriately matches them to the physical demands of the job. The WorkSTEPS Functional Test Model ("Model") has proven to reduce work-related MSDs by an average of 50% in its first year of implementation when used as a first line of defense in the prevention of MSDs. Functional testing combined with other injury management programming such as safety, wellness, conditioning, ergonomics, etc., can help achieve reductions which are even more significant. This WorkSTEPS Model ("Model") was developed in a clinical setting, by occupational clinicians over 15 years ago. It was founded to meet a critical need - to create a medically safe, legally compliant, scientific and objective means of matching a worker's functional capabilities with the essential functions of the job. It was developed as a tool that employers could use to help insure that a worker was safely and appropriately matched to the physical demands of the job.
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