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Fit for duty exams

Fit for duty exams

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Fit for duty exams

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- For years, I've been telling employers about the importance of doing pre-hire fit for duty exams. The last thing you want to do is hire a work comp claim, which is exactly what one company did, even though they knew about this information. The president of the company called me to tell me a story of how he hired a guy on Friday who came to work on Monday and then didn't show up on Tuesday. Later, on Tuesday afternoon, he received a hand-delivered letter from the new employee's attorney claiming he was injured that Monday despite nobody being aware of an injury. He told me, "I hired a work comp claim", and, yes, he did. HR professionals and managers have an obligation to create a safe workplace. Fit for duty exams are part of the hiring and post-injury return to work process precisely to make sure an employee is safe to do their job. Because you are responsible for maintaining a safe workplace, you do not want to place an employee in a position where they are not fit for duty…

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