Post Offer, Pre Placement Testing and Job Analysis

Post Offer, Pre Placement Testing is an important clinical service-bridge to employers as both an injury prevention service and a generator of clinical referrals. While more closely tying you to employers, establishing a Post-Offer program capitalizes on your investment in Job Analysis, Ergonomic Evaluation and Functional Capacity Evaluation.

This practical course builds on a review of current EEOC interpretation of ADA case law and a job analysis practicum to culminate in the draft and validation of a Post-Offer test. Materials provided to participants include a full set of Job Analysis and Post-Offer testing data collection forms.

This comprehensive two-day course has been designed both for those new to Post Offer, Pre Placement Testing and for those with experience in test development and administration. Participants will learn how to combine Job Analysis results with essential function analysis to write the Rationale and Sequence of Test Development.

In keeping with the Matheson philosophy of developing the "Thinking Evaluator," this course is particularly important for the practitioner who has relied upon a commercial Post Offer "system," but who has not investigated in detail the efficacy of the system.

Course Topics and Objectives

How current Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) law shapes what we do, and don't do, in Post-Offer Testing
Understanding the impairment, disability, major life activity, essential function and physical demand continuum
Measuring and collecting job data - the "how to": tools and forms
Determination of job demand cut-points
What data to collect prior to identifying essential functions
How to discriminate between essential and marginal functions
How to structure essential function statements
How to document the essential functions of a specific job task (practicum)
Test development, validation, and administration
Test Administration: Use of standardized or home built tests, implementation, time and cost
Test Results - ADA guidelines for distribution of results
What to do when results indicate the presence of a medical issue
Discussion of outcome stats and determination of test validity
Annual review of program - process, approval and sign off
Practice management issues - space, equipment, staffing and billing
Review of studies that support the value of Post Offer/Pre Placement Testing
Product development - a step by step approach to expanding the area of Post Offer
How to develop market targets

The course practicum will use digital video case studies to follow the cycle of Job Analysis, physical demand cut-point determination, documentation of essential and marginal functions, test development, applicant medical history, consent for evaluation, test administration and reporting.

Note: A limited number of laptops will be available for those who want to use the Matheson Post-Offer software during the course practicum. Please call ahead if you would like to reserve a laptop.