Ensuring a safe and healthy workplace is key for every business. Whatever the trade, size or scope, your staff are the cornerstone of your business and avid productivity, health and happiness rates are essential for both retaining and maintaining your operational output. Whether you are looking to upgrade your current pre-employment medical offering, or you are yet to implement this powerful tool in your recruitment process, discover everything you need to know about medical assessments for recruitment and get started on your path to a more streamlined system today.
What is a Pre-Employment Medical?
A pre-employment medical is an assessment which is carried out to make sure that a prospective employee is fit to work in your business. This test will determine whether the individual in question is able to fulfil any requirements asked in their role – additionally, it will ensure that they are fit to travel overseas or to visit any alternate working environments that may be necessary within their position. This test will also assess whether the prospective employee has any pre-existing conditions, ailments or habits that might negatively impact the working environment or workforce.
The tests involved in a pre-employment medical assessment, as well as any ongoing periodic assessments you may choose to implement within your workplace offering, will help to manage your company’s occupational well-being and maintain health and safety standards. Assessments help to minimise risk by effectively identifying any potential or pre-existing issues in your workplace, which may in turn impact overall wellbeing, productivity, employee sentiment and your bottom line.
Why do Pre-Employment Medicals?
Pre-employment medicals will effectively measure a potential new hire’s individual physical and psychological capacity to carry out the tasks detailed in your job criteria. This simple yet powerful measure has a wide range of benefits including the reduction of workplace injuries and any subsequent Work Cover claims, a safer workplace for staff, visitors and clients alike, reduced harm, better rates of performance and productivity and a reduction in recruitment costs. Your hiring process will become more efficient and effective – ensuring an employee is suitable for the position right away. This lessens any unnecessary back and forth between your recruitment staff and your candidates and will lead you to the most suitable individual for your vacant role all the faster.
First and foremost, identifying any illness that might prevent an individual from performing their assigned job function is one of the most significant benefits of adding pre-employment medical assessments into your recruitment process. Any medical condition that prevents a member of staff from performing the required functions of their position inevitably poses a risk to the health and safety of the individual, their environment and your other workers. So, it is imperative that you are effectively screening and selecting the most fit candidate for the particular position in question.
With pre-employment testing, you will also be able to build a baseline of medical data and insights that can be referred to as a standard in the event of any potential future injury or illnesses in your business. This cost-effective and advantageous component of the selection process will support your interviews and reference checks – resulting in a more effective process with lower costs involved in hours dedicated to recruitment, and potential employee turnover.
What is involved in a Pre-Employment Medical?
Your pre-employment medical assessments can be custom fit to the requirements of your business, trade and the individual role in question, creating a powerful process that is completely suited to your needs. The right medical team will take your requirements into consideration to create an experience that provides you with the most informative and useful information. Meaning you can confidently eliminate risk and find the right fit for your business.
Some of the most popular tests included in a pre-employment medical assessment include:
Standard medical assessments and physical examinations: This may include height, weight, blood pressure and other vital signs that can determine an individual’s overall physical health.
Drug and alcohol screening: This test can determine the presence of illicit substances or alcohol within an individual’s bloodstream and can also collect data from their usage history to determine whether they are a safe and appropriate fit for your environment.
Digital medical screening: For an even more convenient process, you can also experience the benefits of medical assessments through an online portal. This will enable your staff to screen candidates quickly with a simple medical questionnaire. You will be able to automatically identify high-risk individuals, access compliance reporting and automate your ongoing assessments to ensure ongoing compliance.
Additional testing processes include vision and hearing tests, chest X-rays and fitness assessments.
Evaluating your potential new employees with a pre-employment medical can be a cost-effective and efficient way to gather essential information – minimising risk and maximising productivity in your environment.
With Logical Health, you’ll be able to find fit-for-purpose assessments including tailored medicals for particular fields such as:
- White Collar Medicals
- Coal Board Medicals
- Commercial Driver Medicals
- Rail Category Medicals
- Diving Medicals
- Hazardous Materials Medicals
- Blue Collar Medicals
How to get started with Pre-Employment Medicals
Logical Health provides safe, efficient pre-employment medical assessments across Australia. With clinics servicing both regional and urban locations, our network is readily available to assist businesses of all sizes and types.
With a network of dedicated professionals readily available at a clinic of your choosing, your prospective candidates will experience a quality level of care completed by our medical support staff with years of experience in the occupational health space.
Simply contact our friendly booking team via email or phone to determine the most convenient and accessible location for your candidates. Your results will be delivered in a quick and simple manner – so you can easily interpret the data and make the most informed and positive choice for your staff, and your business. Start the process and watch your recruitment methods and quality of workforce transform – for the long run.