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Matching The Work and Worker
WorkWell places a strong emphasis on the accurate and objective match of the worker and the work—throughout the employment lifecycle— from pre-hire to retirement/exit. This enhances the quality of work life for employees today, while reducing costs and improving productivity for employers. WorkWell believes that companies who take this approach now will have a critical competitive edge now, and during the upcoming labor capacity crisis.
WorkWell’s Isernhagen Work Systems has been in the forefront of clinical support of employee health and employers' workers compensation processes forover 15 years both in the US and internationally. WorkWell’s approach has been proven to dramatically reduce the cost and number of injuries on the job.
WorkWell and its providers have developed and implemented successful work injury prevention and management using physical and occupational therapists both on-site and off-site to:
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Evaluate a worker’s functional ability |
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Perform functional evaluation of jobs |
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Perform ergonomic interventions and job modifications |
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Screen employees for pre-hire and return to work |
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Develop work rehabilitation and work hardening programs |
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Assess risk-of-injury assessments |
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Coach employees in safe work |
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Matching of jobs to workers, systematically |
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Develop and document written programs |
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Train workers, supervisors and onsite occupational health staff |
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Facilitate innovative stay-at work programs with physicians | IsernhagenWork Systems has an international faculty that performs and publishes ground breaking research in employee disability; Isernhagen Work Systems practices have been adopted as accepted statutory standards in several European countries.
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