The dual challenges of a tight labor market and the great resignation have increased stress on hiring. As a result, some organizations have waived traditional post-offer employee testing with concerns that it creates friction during the hiring process. However, individuals not screened before starting work risk musculoskeletal injuries. ErgoStart assessments can be scheduled pre or post worker’s start date, so there is no impact on the worker’s start date and results do not exclude employees from employment or reduce the hiring pool.

ErgoStart includes educational components to help reduce injury risk and promote a culture of safety. Highly trained therapists deliver ongoing job-specific ergonomics, body mechanics education, and work readiness recommendations, even with job changes to optimize task performance.

ErgoStart identifies potential performance gaps related to specific job tasks. PTs can develop a progressive adaption program that includes job-specific work-readiness conditioning recommendations and ergonomic modifications until fully able to perform the job.

ErgoStart can be used throughout the hire-to-retire employee lifecycle to help ensure workers can safely perform physical job tasks. Assessing at multiple points on the hire to retire continuum helps keep employees safe, optimizes task performance, and increases retention.