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Workplace Health

Physical Demands Analysis (PDA)
Worksite assessment that provides objective description and quantification of essential job demands. PDAs are used for comparison to worker functional capacities, medical restrictions and for return to work coordination and planning.

Ergonomic Assessments
Comprehensive assessment of worksite identifying risk factors that may contribute to the development or aggravation of physical injury. Professionally recognized protocols and assessment tools are utilized to conform to accepted industry standards.

Ergonomic assessments are used to ensure appropriate workplace design to reduce worker exposure to physical risk factors, and to ensure medical restrictions can be accommodated during return to work coordination and planning.

Functional Capacity Evaluation
Objective evaluation of a worker to determine the impact of impairment on their ability to return to work, or pre-injury function.

Functional Capacity Evaluations are used to clarify a worker’s current level of physical performance in comparison to relevant occupational requirements or activities of daily living. Reliable restrictions are provided for safe and effective rehabilitation coordination, or return to work planning This objective report will also allow various health care professionals to coordinate appropriate therapeutic treatment interventions.



News and Updates


•    In 2002, the average lost-time work injury in Ontario cost an employer $ 59,000. In 2006, the cost increased to approximately $ 98,000.
•    A business operating on a 6 per cent profit margin in 2002, would have needed nearly 1 million in sales to make up for the $59,000 lost that year from a single injury. Today, that same business would need over 1.5 million in sales to recover the costs of a single lost-time injury.
(Source: WSIB)

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