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- Appointed Medical Advisor
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- Rail Safety Worker Assessment
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Fit for Duty
Employers have a mandatory duty of care to maintain a safe workplace under Workplace Health and Safety Legislation. An important part of complying with this duty of care is ensuring their workers are fit to safely perform their role. This is necessary to make sure that an employee’s health is not at risk for their work, and also that their health won’t pose a risk to others in the workplace.
As such, Fitness for Duty assessments are at the employer’s discretion, but are for the benefit of the entire workplace.
From our extensive experience, we have found that the following situations require an assessment by a Specialist in Occupational Medicine to ensure the ongoing safety of a worker in your workplace:
- If the employee has been off work for a period of time greater than one month.
- If the employer has reasonable belief that the employee is unable to perform the inherent requirements of his/her role owing to health reasons
- The employee has a pattern of repetitive absences, of poor work performance.
- If the employee exhibits odd/ bizarre behaviour which cannot be explained or has threatening/ aggressive behaviour
- In a situation of a pre-employment check for an employee with a pre-existing condition or in a safety critical role which requires extra caution in recruiting
- The employee has provided conflicting medical evidence about his fitness from treating practitioners OR his own assertions are different to the information from the treating practitioner; and this needs to be clarified
- The employee does not wish for the employers to contact his/her treating team, leaving an incomplete picture of an employee’s fitness.
Occupational and Environmental Physicians are the only medical specialists specifically trained and qualified to determine an individual’s fitness for duty. They do this utilising their knowledge of workplaces and the demands of specific jobs, and comparing this to the capacity that a worker has, and the risks that their health status poses. They are able to assess how medical conditions, illness or injury may affect an individual’s ability to function both at work and in normal daily activities.
Our Occupational Physicians provide skilful analysis of diagnostic, causation, management, impairment and work capacity issues.
In assessing the risk of further injury or risk of making conditions worse, we consider issues like:
- The exact nature of the employee’s duties
- How often something might happen
- Is the condition being “stirred up” causing pain, or is actual damage occurring/likely to occur?
- How severe an injury is likely to be if a particular event occurred?
- What can be done to minimize the risk now and in the future e.g., specific treatment (which is the treating practitioner’s role, however we may have some helpful ideas)
- Suitable constraints; restricting duration of exposure; restricting the type of risky situation; personal protective equipment; task process modification.
Resile is a leader in conducting Fitness for Duty Assessments, and recognised for their evidenced based and balanced approach. We employ some of Australia’s leading Occupational and Environmental Physicians who are there to assist your organisation at the time you need them most.
A: Fitness for Duty assessments are at the employer’s discretion and are permitted because of an employer’s need to maintain a safe workplace and because of their duty of care towards their employees.
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