Do you know the true importance of mandated pre-employment physicals for your organization? Generally, companies send their workers to undergo occupational medical examinations in order to comply with the regulations that govern their performance, without stopping to think about the true importance of these examinations for the company and its workers.
Occupational Medical Exams
- Carrying out occupational medical evaluations allows companies to obtain a Health Diagnosis of their working population, and…
- Medical evaluations can visualize the demographic distribution of an organization for the purposes of strategic hiring.
- Reduce risks of exposure to ancillary illness or conditions, whether or not they are related to work, through proactive treatment and recovery.
- Empower health and wellness programs to better the lives of employees at home, at work and at play.
It is important to know that occupational examinations can only be carried out by a specialist in Occupational Health or Occupational Medicine. As employer, you work with your occupational health provider to establish the job roles and profiles, and identify the workplace activities to be carried out, and the exposure risks in the workplace.
The pre-occupational or pre-entry medical examinations evaluate the physical, mental and social health of the candidate to work, determining their ability to perform the job without putting their health and / or that of third parties at risk.
Benefits for companies
Not to mention the fines or lawsuits that could be avoided, there are many benefits to a systematic health testing protocol:
- The decrease in costs due to the reduction of absenteeism due to preventable disabilities, regardless of origin.
- The increase in productivity, by finding personnel with adequate health conditions to carry out the work, avoid errors and reduce dissatisfaction in its internal and external clients.
- Obtain extensive knowledge of the health conditions of your staff, to generate mechanisms that have a positive impact.
- Become an ally of your employees; by providing support in their health.
Benefits for Employees
By taking these exams you will benefit:
- Know more about your health and actions you can take to prevent onset of work related health conditions or injuries.
- Understand the hazards in the work environment and how they can impact you in your workplace and everyday life.
- Recognize your capacity for activities such as: length of time you can perform the activity, in what environment, with which technique or alignment and with what tools or personal protection.
- Detect the impact of work on your health condition, and to identify proactive steps you can take to mitigate risk.
- Monitor your health over time.
Selecting the Right Occupational Health Care Clinic
When you choose a provider of employee testing, you have choices, depending on the scope of testing you need. You can choose an urgent care, a phlebotomy clinic, or an occupational health specialist among others. Why would you choose to work with an Occupational Health Clinic?
First, by keeping records all in one place you have a better profile of your employees. From initial screening to annual or semi-annual checkups, to injury care and recovery, you chart a profile of performance risks and trends. Use the data to inform your safety trainings, protocols, job descriptions and hiring. With a comprehensive picture comes insight. With insight comes empowerment.
Work with Midtown Occupational Health
Midtown Occupational Health is a physician owned and operated injury medicine and recovery clinic. Our main point of difference from other clinics is that we are known to perform better by creating mutually beneficial agreements between employers, patients, and physicians on recovery plans, care, and return to work dates.
Midtown Occupational Health Services is an injury care clinic exclusive to occupational medicine.
For over 35 years we have provided a customized approach to restoring health and reducing costs while maximizing productivity. We work with employers and are sensitive to special challenges as we provide highly individualized care. We believe communication is key and have representatives from our Client Services department who serve as the front-line of communication and are dedicated to working with you.
Our mutual benefit agreements focus on employee recovery to avoid conflict or litigation, reducing costs and leading to better results through:
- Immediate injury recovery
- A physical therapy plan to regain strength and flexibility
- A focus on assessing pre-injury capacity and measuring ability during recovery plan to return to prevent re-injury or future injury while regaining performance.
Choose midtown Occupational Health as Your Provider for Work-related Physicals and Injury Care
- Businesses that are regulated by OSHA guidelines must list three providers of occupational health services in the event of injury. Beyond choosing Midtown as one of your preferred providers, help us get to know your team by sending new hires to Midtown to start their worksite health journey.
- Our team completes all file management. Instead of going to an emergency room and ordering care through a variety of providers without a consistent plan for documentation, we will keep it coordinated so you can see the big picture.
By working with a clinic that focuses on occupational health care, you create consistent recovery plans, generating a clearer picture of employee health journeys from hire to retirement.
Talk to us about becoming a primary care provider for your team.
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