Pre Employment Physical Forms

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Pre employment physical forms are used to provide employers with helpful health and ability related information gathered during the hiring process. These exams help to avert absenteeism caused by injury or illness, and they cut down on costs related to Worker's Comp, rehiring and retraining.

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How Pre employment Physicals Help Employers

If you're being considered for a position, and are required to have a pre employment check up, you may be wondering why a physical is necessary at all. In reality, the results of your pre employment physical equip the employer to determine whether or not an employee will be able to perform the necessary functions of the job for which they are being considered. Employers have to consider the safety of all their workers, and if physical limitations of the person being considered for the job place other workers or the public at risk of injury, the employer will most likely have to look for another applicant for the job.

Conditions that Predispose to Injury

The results of the pre employment physical will pinpoint conditions that predispose the applicant to injury. This information aids the employer in:

Managing future risks
Setting a foundation for prevention procedures
Limitin future liability
Establishing the employees’ medical condition when hired (creates a medical and legal information base)
Identifying employee’s lack of ability to correctly perform job functions (can pose a risk to themselves and others)
Promoting workplace safety

How to Set Requirements for Pre Employment Physical Exam

Before the physical is performed, it is essential that the employer has a job analysis, which in turn sets the requirements for the physical. This information will help formulate a pre employment physical form set up to meet your company's needs.

Each job has it's own description, and within that description an employer should include the stipulation that a pre-employment (post-offer) physical is required as part of the hiring process. The physical form should reflect the requirements expected of an employee. For example, if the employee is expected to lift 35 pounds, the exam should reflect whether or not the employee is capable of performing this aspect of the job.

Before you jump to conclusions, and claim this type of testing to be unfair, think about firefighters and police officers. If your life hung in the balance of whether or not they could meet the physical demands of the job, wouldn't you like to know that they had passed the pre employment physical? City employment is a perfect example of a wide variety of positions requiring specific levels of fitness. It's not a matter of discrimination, but a matter of safety and proficiency.

It's also important to note that employers cannot ask job applicants to have a pre employment physical unless they are extending a real offer of employment. It should be made clear during the interview that offers of employment then rest upon the candidate's ability to meet the medical standards required for the position. Many times these post-offer, pre employment physicals include drug/alcohol testing. If an applicant refuses to submit to testing, he or she is disqualified. On the other hand, if the pre employment physical is completed and passed, this should be the last step in the hiring process.

Resources for Copies of Pre Employment Physical Forms

The following pre employment check up forms can be downloaded and printed. If you need a pre employment form for physicals to use in your business, find the form that closest meets your needs and use it as a template to design your own pre employment physical forms.