Want to Avoid a Million-Dollar-a-Year Mistake?
Let Us Help You Find Workers Who Are Fit for the Job.
Bad hiring decisions can be costly. When you
select the wrong people for physically demanding
jobs, you risk losing a substantial amount of
money in lost time claims each year. (And that’s
not counting lost productivity and all the money
you spend hiring and training replacements.) The
solution, of course, is to make sure the men and
women you hire are as fit and healthy as possible.
Industrial Physical
Capability Services (IPCS)
can help. We provide
standardized and objective
physical capability testing
for new hires, previously
injured employees, and potential job transfers. Depending on the size of your
operation, our “ounce of prevention” can mean millions of extra dollars in your bank
account each year:IPCS boosts your bottom line.
The proof is in the numbers.- Recent analysis by an IPCS national retail client with 8 distribution centers reveals:
- A 42% reduction in lost time claims during the program’s first year
- An annual lost time savings of $1,924,384
- ROI of $30 for every $1 spent over a 4-year period
Of course, it’s not allabout the money. Investing in the IPCS assessment program shows your employees that you care about their well-being. This creates goodwill and boosts employee loyalty—a necessity in today’s tough business climate.
Eight Great Reasons to Choose IPCS:
- IPCS evaluates new hires, return-to-work cases, and job transfers. We accurately and safely match the physical capability of the worker to the physical demands of the job.
- Our assessments help you significantly reduce both frequencyand severityof overexertion injuries. This improves safety performance, lowers workers’ compensation costs, and makes your workplace more productive. (Fantastic ROI, in other words!)
- When you choose IPCS, you can safely expect at least a 50% reduction in injuries and a 50% reduction in the cost of your average claim.
- Our assessments are driven by data. All decisions regarding the physical capability of a potential new employee to do a job or an injured employee to return to work are based on data analysis. To see some of our more recent case studies, visit www.ipcs-inc.com.
- We use isokinetic testing equipment to uncover pre-existing conditions that may lead to injury. Our methods are far more objective and accurate than traditional functional capacity tests.
- Our physical capability assessment program is EEO and ADA compliant.
- To help injured employees get the rehabilitation they need, we partner with a network of sports medicine clinics across the U.S.—providers that emphasize the whole body conditioning that minimizes the chances of re-injury.
- We have a national reputation for excellence, backed by three decades of experience. Founder and president Thomas B. Gilliam, Ph.D., has worked with hundreds of satisfied clients in the trucking, distribution, airline, manufacturing, and utility industries.
Despite heightened awareness by employers, overexertion injuries to the knees, shoulders, and back continue to be a problem in industries with physically demanding jobs. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistic for the most recent year (2003), there were 1.3 million lost time injuries.- Forty-three percent of these injuries were due to sprains and strains
- 881,666 of these injuries occurred to the knees, shoulders, and back
- 42 % reported bodily reaction & overexertion as the reason or cause of the injury
The costs for these injuries are high. By matching the physical capability of the worker to the physical demands of the job, these injuries and associated costs can be substantially reduced.
The IPCS physical capability assessment program for new hires has a proven success record:
- IPCS has presented four of its case studies at the American College of Sports Medicine annual meetings in 1999, 2000, 2002 and 2004. Each study has been published in abstract form in the Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise scientific journal. The studies compared injury data collected prior to the implementation of the IPCS physical capability evaluation program to injury data following the implementation of the IPCS program. In all cases, significant improvements in the client's frequency and severity of injuries occured. Click to be linked to the publications: Case Studies
- Many of the IPCS case studies involve analyses that covers up to four years of intervention. These studies demonstrate that the effectiveness of the IPCS program is long term and not just a one time occurrence.
- Data has been analyzed for clients in the retail distribution, railroad, airline, trucking (LTL and logistics), construction, manufacturing, food service distribution industries. As long as the job crafts are physically demanding, the IPCS knee-shoulder protocol has proven effective.
- Further analysis of the IPCS data shows the impact the IPCS program is having on recommending a more fit person for physically demanding jobs. Since obesity is playing such a critical role in rising healthcare cost in industry today, this finding is significant. Check out the following link to read several Health News IPCS topics: Industry News
The IPCS isokinetic physical capability pre-or post-job offer evaluations have proven to be effective, reducing the incidence and severity of injuries to the shoulders, low back and knees and in many cases all types of injuries. Matching the worker to the job through individualized screening significantly reduces workplace injuries and associated costs. And the IPCS physical capability assessment program is both EEOC and ADA compliant.
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