Industrial Services

Educational sessions include training in risk factors, anatomy/physiology of musculoskeletal injury, national statistics, ergonomics, proper biomechanics & work methods, personal protective equipment, job specific stretching & exercise recommendations for home/personal time.   Session includes preparation time, power point set-up, hand-outs, outlines & class instruction by licensed/registered industrial therapist.

	A job analysis will be required prior to the start/preparation for education/training programs for your employees.   This includes on-site analysis of the daily essential functions/physical demand level for the designated department(s) at company's site.   The job analysis will include formal weights, measures, frequencies, repetitions & forces required to complete required job functions.   The job analysis will include digital photography & video, associate interview/interaction to accurately capture all aspects of jobs.   A job analysis summary page can be devised for return-to-work approval by task for physicians reviewing job of injury or offered transitional /modified duty jobs.

	Pre-placement / post offer essential function testing is used prior to your employee starting employment.   Functional assessments are used to determine if the prospective employee can physically perform job-specific activities/essential job functions of job in application.   This testing evaluates flexibility, strength, functional mobility/agility, posture, body mechanics with lifting and work performance of all essential job functions/simulations.   Testing will provide blood pressure screening and education in body mechanics, job-specific stretching & flexibility exercises.   Validity-based test, matching essential job functions to prospective associate's level of function.   ADA & EEOC compliant   Legally defensible

	Validity based functional examinations of an injured employee's maximum, safe level of function to determine return-to-work capability/fit for duty status.   Determines job task matching for all essential functions; job specific testing.   Examination will last three to four hours.   Results called & faxed to designated nurse case managers, risk managers & treating physician.   Can detect sub-maximal efforts by employees with alternative motives to returning to work.   Results reported as VALID, Conditionally VALID, or INVALID.

	On-site, one-to-one visit with previously injured associate upon return to work.   Visit and assessment will include instruction in safe/proper body mechanics, alternation work methods, job specific stretching/exercises.   Good tool for “high-risk” injury employees returning to work after rehabilitation, modified duty, etc.   Also called “Job Coaching”

	Identification of work risk factors as potential contributors to musculoskeletal injuries.   Specific recommendations / abatements through weights, measures, ergonomic tool utilization and alternative designs / work flow patterns of workstations.   Ergonomic Assessment tools used may include (but are not limited to) ASC-Z365, RULA, NIOSH Lift Equation, REBA etc. depending on job-type/ essential functions of job.   Recommendations will include both ergonomic changes and implementation of administrative controls; when possible levels of recommendations will be from cost-effective to most expensive.

	To perform case reviews, meet to discuss/plan for further injury prevention or intervention services.   Participation in safety meetings, meetings with management, nurse case managers, etc.   Meetings with treating physicians, coordinating care for your employees as needed with difficult cases.   Completion of injury prevention projects / consultation time associated with such services.

Please call (800) 974-5774 to speak with an ATI representative about industrial services.