[MCOH-EH] Skills day for post offers

[Swift, Melanie, M.D.]

Rachel, I have not been involved in doing this at least not as a medical test performed in a clinic. Duke has a pilot program for nurses and you may want to reach out to Carol Epling there for her insights.

I attended an excellent presentation at a work comp conference by an ergonomist named Jim Briggs who really crystallized the legal do's and don'ts of post offer physical ability testing. Here is a link to his PowerPoint slide which has a lot of good information. http://www.insafetyconf.com/media/PDF/safety_conf_2015/materials/Briggs_J.pdf Make sure your legal team is involved if you choose to go down that road.

However by "skills" day what you are asking sounds more like something the hiring department might do regularly for existing employees, not post offer. That is a more common practice than post offer physical ability testing, and as long as it's not done by medical personnel and everyone goes through it, and it's a reasonable approximation of the job duties and demands, I don't see a reason they couldn't do it. I would resist turning that into a medical test though.


Melanie

Melanie Swift, MD
Senior Associate Consultant
Division of Preventive, Occupational, and Aerospace Medicine
Phone 507.284.2560
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Mayo Clinic
200 First Street SW
Rochester, MN 55905
www.mayoclinic.org<http://www.mayoclinic.org/>

From: MCOH-EH [mailto:mcoh-eh-bounces at mylist.net] On Behalf Of Leibu, Rachel
Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2017 11:56 AM
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Subject: [MCOH-EH] Skills day for post offers

Does anyone conduct a skills day for positions that are physically demanding such as EMT/Paramedics and other Clinical Positions to assess the candidate's ability to perform the essential physical functions of their job?

Rachel Leibu, MD, MBA, MS
Director Occupational Medicine Service
Atlantic Health System
973-971-5440


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