Employee Health & Wellness

P4 Industrial Rehab & Wellness understands that managing the health and safety of employees is an ever-increasing concern for employers. P4 Industrial Rehab & Wellness’s Industrial Rehab programs are designed to prevent employee health issues, manage and restore employee health when an injury occurs and return employees to work quickly and safely. Through P4’s system of care, patients can seamlessly access specialists and services.

P4 Industrial Rehab – Services:

– Occupational Therapy and Physical Therapy
– Post Offer Employment Test (POET’s)
– Physical Demand Job Analysis
– Functional Physical Demand Job Descriptions / EJF
– Ergonomic screens / injury analysis
– Preventative Maintenance Testing
– Functional Movement Screens
– Physical Ability Maintenance
– Job Transfer and Return to Work
– Home assessment, evaluation and recommendations for traumatic or catastrophic injury
– Fitness Programs for Industrial Athletes (Exercise/Pause/Formal Fitness Center)
– FCE’s and Impairment Ratings
– Acute Rehab / Early Injury Intervention
– Return to Work Programs – On-site
Rehabilitation, Formal Safety Education, Accommodations, First Aide Screenings
and Wellness Programs

 

Formal On-site Safety Education / CEU Courses

This service is best provided quarterly or monthly on-site in person. It is also available in power-point format (video to follow). May be included as part of Safety Training requirements.

• Reduce Risk Cost and Lost Time with Musculoskeletal Disorders in the Workplace
• Post-Offer / Pre-employment Testing
• Symptom Magnification
• Ergonomic Assessments
• Developing a Legally Compliant Job Demand Analysis/EJF – Essential Job Functions
• Workers Compensation and Rehabilitation – Moving from a Disease Model to Functional Oriented Model
• The Industrial Athlete: Preparing the Employee for the Physical Demands of the Job
• Repetitive Strain Injuries: Review of proactive measures to reduce cost and future injury rates
• Healthy Aging for a Sustainable Workforce: more productive and safer employees, but longer loss time and higher injury cost
• Return to Work Post Injury – Fit for Duties; Ensuring a Safe and Sustained Return to Work
• Shoulder Injuries and Conditioning: Preparing the Employee for the Essential Duties of the Job
• Ergonomics in the Workplace
• Back Injury Prevention in the Workplace
• Slips and falls in the Workplace
• UE Repetitive Strain Prevention Education and Training
• Beginning a Fitness Program and Weight Management (PerformFit Studios/P4 Industrial Rehab)
• Weight Management and Diet Planning

Industrial Rehab Services

POET’s

The key purpose of a Physical Demand Screen or Post Offer Evaluation Test (POET) is to ensure an employer that an appropriate candidate for the job is being hired.  By testing the applicant against each critical job demand, the employer receives objective data showing that the applicant can do the job safely.   POET is used by employers to help better determine if a certain job candidate can securely and effectively perform the physical demands of the job for which they have been hired.  A POET will thus measure and test different medical and physical characteristics given the type of job and the physical requirements required. The POET will specifically test the tasks of the job for which candidate is hiring on. POET’s can only be processed after the employer has made an official offer.  Employers who use POET exams generally hire trained medical professionals to develop detailed testing criteria that is specific to the physical demands/requirements of the job description.  This test helps ensure that employees hired are qualified and capable of performing the job.  It may also be helpful in placing an individual in a successful safe job for the individual.

Physical Demands Job Analysis

A physical demands job analysis is an evaluation conducted to determine the physical requirements of a specific job.  The evaluation focuses on the physical movements and positions that are required to perform the job tasks. Actions such as lifting, standing, walking, bending, squatting and other physical demands of the job.  This is extremely important in an accurate functional job description, POET testing, Fit for Duty Testing and in rehab to successful, safe return to work.  It’s important to know what physical demands are necessary for a job to be performed successfully. If an employee over exerts themselves doing a task, or is not strong enough to lift specific objects, they could potentially injure themselves. A thorough assessment of physical demands is vitally important in a for safe job match and/or return to work.

Functional Job Description

Functional job descriptions include details of the physical demands required of a particular job as well as certain movements or postures that workers may encounter on the job.  These tasks often include but are not limited to:  sitting, standing, walking, lifting, bending/stooping, climbing, reaching, handling, coordination, etc.

The functional Job Description should be part of the detailed job description with processes, specific tasks, education requirements, and duties.

Ergonomic Job-Site Analysis

Ergonomics – fitting the job to a person, not the person to the job.  This helps lessen muscle fatigue, increases productivity and reduces the number and severity of work – related MSDs (musculoskeletal disorders).  An Ergonomic analysis incorporates a root cause analysis in the determination of key stressors and contributors to the development and risk for the development of MSDs.  Reviews – force, postures, repetitions, joint angles and other factors.

• Home assessment, evaluation and recommendations for traumatic or catastrophic injury

• Injury Prevention Programs

Back Education, UE Repetitive Strain Prevention Education and Training; Trauma Prevention; Beginning an Exercise Program; Reduce Risk Cost and Lost Time with Musculoskeletal Disorders in the Workplace; Post-Offer / Pre-employment Testing, Ergonomic Assessments; Developing a Legally Compliant Job Demand Analysis; Workers Compensation and Rehabilitation – Moving from a Disease Model to Functional Oriented Model; The Industrial Athlete:  Preparing the Employee for the Physical Demands of the Job; Repetitive Strain Injuries:  Review of proactive measures to reduce cost and future injury rates; Healthy Aging for a Sustainable Workforce:  more productive and safer employees, but longer loss time and higher injury cost; Return to Work Post Injury – Fit for Duties;  Ensuring a Safe and Sustained Return to Work; Shoulder Injuries and Conditioning:  Preparing the Employee for the Essential Duties of the Job; Ergonomics in the Workplace; Back Injury Prevention in the Workplace; Slips and falls in the Workplace; Beginning a Fitness Program and Weight Management (PerformFit Studios)

Occupational Therapy & Physical Therapy

FCEs – FCE/Functional Capacity Evaluation is a test that measures an injured worker’s ability to perform physical demands of a job. FCEs are full-body comprehensive medical tests used to measure an employee’s functional capacity and assist in injury management, whether the injury was sustained while at work or existed previously. It includes strength, endurance, agility, coordination and positional tolerances.  These tests are used to determine if an injured worker can return to work after injuries such as sprains, strains, other soft tissue injuries, fractures or surgery.

Impairment Ratings/PPI – this rating is assigned by a doctor when the injured worker has reached a point where his or her injury will not significantly improve with further medical treatment, known as maximum medical improvement. In short a PPI is a medical doctor’s determination of some loss of function of a body part (s) as a result of an employee’s work accident.  This rating does not include a determination as to whether or not an individual can perform his/her old job.

Return to Work Programs – On-site Rehabilitation, Accommodations, First Aide Screenings, Wellness/Fitness Programs.

Work Conditioning – work conditioning is an intensive, work-related, goal-orientated strengthening program designed to restore neuromusculoskeletal functions, motor function, and range of motion. A work conditioning program will often simulate work scenarios that require a patient to move or lift as they would on the job to help restore their ability to complete job duties and safely return to work. For example, consider a warehouse stocker who has fallen off a forklift and suffered a spine injury. After a round of physical therapy, the patient requires work conditioning to help regain their strength. A work conditioning program can be customized to include weighted boxes, similar to what the patient lifts at work, as part of the exercise treatment to help regain these abilities.

Work Hardening – work hardening is also a goal-oriented and individualized intervention program designed to help patients return to work. However, work hardening is more structured and multidisciplinary in nature and is designed to restore physical, behavioral, and vocational functions.

Fit for Duty Testing – Employers rely on fit-for-duty exams (or fit-for-duty tests) to make sure their workers can safely perform specific jobs. These exams are an essential part of workplace safety and safe return to work. Fit-for-duty exams can be performed for employees who are working or who are returning to work. When fit-for-duty exams are performed for return to work, they’re often called “return-to-work exams.” An employer may want a fit-for-duty exam for an employee who is completing treatment and is ready to return to work after a serious illness or injury. The information captured on a return-to-work application assists employers in understanding if the employee can safely perform their job again, and they can return to work without risking re-injury.  Sometimes, employers may worry that an employee’s medical condition makes it unsafe for them to perform their job. A fit-for-duty exam determines if the employee is physically and/or psychologically able to safely perform their current role. These specialized exams are typically reserved for more labor-intensive roles, and the exams are unique to each employer and their positions. What’s examined depends can be customized to an employee’s role and unique circumstances. This may include lifting heavy objects overhead, crouching and bending for prolonged periods of time, and maneuvering into small spaces.