by worksaver-admin | Jul 26, 2018 | Fit for Duty
Medical Tip Throughout our clinical career, Trevor and I have examined and treated numerous patients with low back pain (LBP) who were considering having back surgery when they did not actually need it. On many of those occasions, the basis for wanting back surgery...
by worksaver-admin | Jul 26, 2018 | Fit for Duty
Ergonomics Tip As ergonomic specialists, we have always warned office employees to avoid any computer work station set up that encourages, or forces, one to reach. The most common causes of reaching while working at computers are: The keyboard and/or mouse are located...
by worksaver-admin | Jul 26, 2018 | Fit for Duty
Excess sugar (hyperglycemia) is well known to be bad for us when it comes to diabetes and obesity, but a potential link between excessive sugar and Alzheimer’s disease may be another reason that we should be controlling our sugar intake in our diets. In Alzheimer’s...
by worksaver-admin | Jul 26, 2018 | Corporate Compliance
Job placement and return to work considerations are determined in many cases by the results of lifting capacity tests. Having sufficient strength to perform a job, particularly a labor-intensive job, has been a focus of many FFD tests in the past and present. As...
by worksaver-admin | Jul 26, 2018 | Fit for Duty
Besides assessing the functional capacities of a person to ensure that an employee is physically able to perform the essential functions of a job, one of the primary functions of fitness-for-duty (FFD) tests, at least as practiced by WorkSaver Systems, is to identify...
