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Category: Fit-For-Duty

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What Is Work Conditioning?

When you’ve had an employee go out with an injury, you want them to recover quickly so they can get past this disruption in their…

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Returning to Work After an Injury

No one hires a new person for a job expecting them to be injured. You choose your new hire carefully, through a combination of interviewing…

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What is Fit for Duty Testing?

According to OSHA, fit for duty means that an individual is in a physical, mental, and emotional state which enables the employee to perform the…

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How We Can Help Transform Injured Workers Into Returned Employees

Physical therapy is often prescribed 2-3 days per week, but physical therapy alone is not conducive to conditioning someone to return to work. That is…

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How a Routine Screen Can Save You Thousands of Dollars

Fit for duty testing (FFD) is a fantastic tool for employers because it qualifies the safety of the employee to return to regular or modified…

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Job Ready Services – Definitions

It came to our attention recently that we use quite a few acronyms and abbreviations here at Job Ready Services so we thought we would…

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8 Words or Phrases That Should Be Retired From The Workers’ Compensation Field

Let’s “voc” (pronounced VOKE) him! – a Vocational Rehabilitation referral is frequently used as the last ditch effort to settle a case if nothing else…

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OSHA Cracking Down on Healthcare Facilities

On June 25, OSHA announced it was going to focus on injury prevention procedures and equipment used in hospitals and nursing care centers by doing…

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Judge Rules in Favor of EMPLOYER

Recently a court case was brought to my attention. A worker for the US Postal Service had filed a complaint with the EEOC that she…

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