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New Hire, Annual, and Return to Work Testing:
Best Practice for a Successful Program
Traci Tauferner, LAT, CSCS, PES Patrick Zeps
Industrial Rehabilitation Athletic Trainer Assistant Chief of Police
Ascension Medical Group Marshfield Police Department
MARSHFIELD
POLICE DEPARTMENT
Conflict of Interest Statement
We have no actual or potential conflict of
interest in relation to this presentation.
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Background: Fitness testing is overdue
• Shorter life expectancy upon retirement
• Poor diet
• Obesity
• Shift work
• Stress
Background: Community expectations
• What level of
performance is
acceptable?
• Running into a school
• Climbing stairs
• Officers judged on skills,
knowledge, and ABILITY
• Deliberate indifference
Background: Health insurance costs
• Continuing to
increase
• Cause is high usage
• Viewed as avoidable
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Background: Workers compensation
claims
• Workers compensation claims rising as well
• Minimum staffing results-community
expectations
• Light duty desired
Background: Overtime
• Overtime budget inflated due to officer injuries
• Minimum staffing expectation
• Officer burnout
Background: Hypervigilance
• Hypervigilance
The state of being
highly or abnormally
alert to potential
danger or threat
• Adverse health effects
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Testing types: New Hire/ Post-offer Testing
Purpose: To hire employees who can
physically and safely do the required
tasks of the job.
• Demonstration and promotion of
fair hiring practices.
• Promotion of safe job assignments
and performance throughout the
workplace.
Testing types: Annual
Purpose: To ensure employees are able to
physically and safely do the required tasks
of the job.
• Related to specific component of
fitness that theoretically predicts the
ability to do the job
• Abbreviated version of New hire test
• Performed annually or bi-annual
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Testing types: Return to Work
Purpose: To return employees to
work who can physically and
safely do the required tasks of
the job.
• Eliminates the guess work
• Clarifies job requirements for
physicians
Test Development
• Perform an objective analysis of the current
position:
• Survey
• Interview
• Observations
• Physiological measurements
• Biomechanical analysis
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Test Development cont.
• Current employees need to be
able to pass the test.
• Validated by current
employees
• Testing at the worker’s jobsite
• Test should be updated every
2-3 years, as jobs change or
environments change
Legal when performed according to standards laid out
by federal laws, such as the Americans with Disabilities
Act (ADA), guidelines from the Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and state law
applicable.
Recommend employer’s legal counsel review prior to
implementation.*Good handouts for employers from Workwell’s site on myths/mistakes related to POET (PPS) www.workwell.com
Sample
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Lessons Learned: Unions
“I’ve done this job for 20 years, why do I have to
do this now?”
• Contracts?
• Opposition to the program
• Handling suspicion
(Transparency)
Lessons Learned: Failures
“What happens if I fail?”
• Familiarization: spend 1-2 days training
• Acclamation period: 1-2 years
• Light duty (how can we put them on the road after
failing?)
• Remediation program and retest
• Access to relevant resources
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Lessons Learned: Steps backwards to move forward
• Our worker’s compensation injury story
• Prepping for and performing testing can be considered
a worker’s compensation claim.
• Prevention programs
Lessons Learned: Defensibility
• Job specific
• Validation
• Confirm with legal team
and human resources
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“Warriors are not always the fastest or strongest people.
Warriors are those who stand between their enemy and all that they love and hold sacred.” - unknown
Traci Tauferner, LAT, CSCS, PES Patrick Zeps
Industrial Rehabilitation Athletic Trainer Assistant Chief of Police
Ascension Medical Group Marshfield Police Department
(920) 979-5597
[email protected] [email protected]
MARSHFIELD
POLICE DEPARTMENT