Post Offer Employment Health Screening
Why?
It is your responsibility under the Health and Safety at Work Act (1974) to ensure that prospective employees and those being redeployed are fit to perform the jobs you offer and that their health is not damaged by work.
Pre placement health assessments are performed after the candidate has been offered the job to assess a candidate's fitness
to work.
Pre employment /pre placement health screens:
✓ assess current health problems that may affect the
prospective employee's ability to give an effective
and reliable service
✓ provide necessary advice on how to meet the legal
obligations of disability provisions of the Equality Act,
Working Time Regulations and other health and safety
regulations
✓ enable information to be given to the prospective
employee on health protection at work and how
to improve physical and mental well-being
✓ identify the unfit prospective employee thus preventing
a safety risk to themselves and others
✓ enable baseline medical information to be collected if
required for future health surveillance purposes
How?
Assurance that prospective employees are physically and
psychologically able to take on the role for which they have been
recruited may be given following completion of a health questionnaire
and in infrequent cases following correspondence with the applicant's
doctors and / or a medical.