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Slide 1 ___________________________________ Use of Functional Job Descriptions to Reduce Cost/Risk ___________________________________ Tracy Ervin, MPT ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Slide 2 ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Slide 3 ___________________________________ Providing Employer Solutions ___________________________________  Reduced costs  Better employee predictability ___________________________________  Better operational predictability  Healthier, happier ___________________________________ employees ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________

Slide 4 Our approach to workplace ___________________________________ health intervention:  Professional experienced therapists for medical and ___________________________________ ergonomic intervention to:  Prevent injuries  Intervene when work activities bring on symptoms or problems — before there is a need for time off work  Objectively test the worker’s physical abilities  Develop work rehab programs that increase the ___________________________________ employee’s ability to return to regular job duties.  The approach is based on objective methods that have been tested and proven to reduce worker injury and disability through WorkWell Systems. ___________________________________ Numerous published research studies confirm method reliability and validity. ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Slide 5 ___________________________________ Occupational Health Programs  Corporate Employee Health Programs ___________________________________  Ergonomics  Injury Prevention  FJA/FJD/FCE ___________________________________  Acute Care  Bridge Programs - REALM ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Slide 6 ___________________________________ Keeping workers healthy at work and productive is important to your business  The ability to hire better employees than your ___________________________________ competitors puts you at a distinct competitive advantage.  The ability to keep those employees at work and productive is also critical to business success. ___________________________________  Healthy workers means meeting your customers expectations and delivering your products and services “on time” and “on budget”.  Workplace health is essential to keep down ___________________________________ the escalating cost of workers compensation and health insurance premiums. ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________

Slide 7 ___________________________________ Effective Occupational Health Programs  Our focus is on ___________________________________ improving workforce availability throughout the entire employment ___________________________________ lifecycle by keeping workers at work and productive. ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Slide 8 ___________________________________ We consider injury or illness from work activities to be a quality issue. ___________________________________  Payment of workers compensation benefits, and lost time due to injury then are “failure costs”. ___________________________________  The cost of fixing this failure increases exponentially in both money and time, the longer you wait to address it. ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Slide 9 ___________________________________ The Cost of Legacy Thinking  • 100% of the workers compensation risk, ___________________________________ your employees, lives within your business walls.  • Up to 98% of the solution dollars, workers compensation medical and disability costs, ___________________________________ are being spent outside the company after the injury occurs.  • Addressing productivity and injury management issues the old way just ___________________________________ doesn’t add up to good business. ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________

Slide 10 ___________________________________ A Logical Approach Sets Us Apart • Best practice firms apply increased ___________________________________ resources to loss prevention and stay-at work programs. • By re -apportioning budgets to focus on ___________________________________ quality, prevention and fixing “failures” early, some companies have experienced savings of 50-90% on workers compensation costs. ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Slide 11 ___________________________________ Developing a FJD  Starts with a Functional ___________________________________ Job Analysis (FJA) ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Slide 12 ___________________________________ Functional Job Analysis  FJA – a comprehensive, structured ___________________________________ process of identifying and evaluating the physical aspects of work.  Foundation for an effective work injury prevention and management process ___________________________________  Involves analyzing the work, the worker, and the worksite  Assist with workplace redesign  Ergonomic solutions/work risk analysis  Provide a functional job description ___________________________________  Design a post-offer screen ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________

Slide 13 ___________________________________ FJA Process  A systematic look at what a job entails. ___________________________________  Interview workers and supervisors ○ Worker involvement is an essential component ○ Objectively quantifies, measures, and categorizes the job ___________________________________  Watch the job being performed  Take accurate measurements that quantify the physical demands of the job  Determine essential functions, marginal ___________________________________ functions and critical demands ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Slide 14 ___________________________________ FJA  Important component of injury ___________________________________ prevention  Identifies risk factors assoc. with the work  Identifies ergo recommendations/modification ___________________________________  Identifies educational programs to reduce injuries  Basis for FJD/screen  Necessary for ADAA/ADA, EEOC, OSHA, ___________________________________ HIPAA compliance ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Slide 15 ___________________________________ Essential Functions  Essential functions - the basic job ___________________________________ duties that an employee must be able to perform, with or without reasonable accommodation.  According to the ADA an employer ___________________________________ should carefully examine each job to determine which functions or tasks are essential to performance. (This is particularly important before taking an employment ___________________________________ action such as recruiting, advertising, hiring, promoting or firing). ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________