Assessments



Reasons for assessments

Assessments may be requested from employers, insurers, attorneys, individuals, or referring specialists to determine:

  • Return to work status
  • Ability to meet job demands as part of a hiring process
  • Ability to meet own or reasonable alternative occupation as part of claims investigation
  • Case management viability assessments
  • Disability status in terms of disability equity legislation
  • Assessment of incapacity in terms of labour legislation
  • Determine needs for reasonable accommodation in the workplace
  • Suitability to rehabilitation programmes
Types of assessments

Tailormade assessments with access to a large battery of standardised and performance-based assessment tools, including:

  • Functional Capacity Evaluations (FCE): A systematic method of measuring the ability to perform meaningful tasks on a safe and dependable basis. (Assessment lasts three hours)
  • Screenings: More streamlined FCE to determine baseline for further management, review progress, assist with vocational planning and facilitate employer discussion. (Cost is time-dependent)
  • Situational Assessments: Includes worksite visits for job demand analyses and investigations into reasonable accommodations, home visits for activity of daily living measurements, as well as social settings for social anxieties
  • Multiday Assessments: Assessments performed over more than one day to consider the fluctuating nature of a condition or post-exertional impairment
  • Disputes, second opinion and paper-based opinion work

Refer to our frequently asked questions page in terms of the logistics of assessments.

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Contact us for assessments

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