Genex Workplace Productivity Services

Injury Prevention & Return-to-Work Solutions

Get injured employees back to work safely and efficiently while reducing the risk of future injuries. By aligning job tasks and environments with their physical and psychological needs, we help you create a healthier, more productive workplace. Our solutions identify job-specific physical requirements to identify risks, prevent injuries, and support long-term success.

79.4%

MMI with Genex's Ergonomics Program

68.6%

Successful Return-to-Work with Genex's Ergonomics Program

230+

Physical Demands Analysis Evaluations Performed Each Year

Physical Demands Analysis (PDA)

A PDA program changes the focus from maximum medical improvement to return to work. This service is the cornerstone of determining causation, medical treatment plans, return to work, and accommodation. A PDA provides a biomechanical description of the essential functions of a job and the physical demands required to perform them.

Defines the essential functions in an ADA-compliant fashion
Defines the physical abilities necessary to perform the essential functions
Matches the physical abilities of employees with job demands
Facilitates consistency of treatment and decreases over-utilization

Genex performs more than 230 PDAs each year!

View Sample Physical Demands Analysis Report

Ergonomics

Reduce risk factors for preventive and case specific situations by utilizing ergonomic services. Genex has 90 highly-credentialed ergonomic evaluators nationwide who consider posture, productivity, health and safety, and cost benefit perspectives that will lead to improvements that enable employees to stay at work or return to work.

Recommendations to reduce risk factors or correct posture issues
Allows an employee to return to work from a repetitive stress injury
Minimizes the chance of a re-injury after returning to work
Prevents medical-only claims from progressing to lost time
Assists in accommodations

Return to Work (RTW)

Implementing formal programs and processes allows for seamless integration of return-to-work planning across the continuum of managed care services. A customizable, step-by-step process to return employees back to full-time jobs through transitional or modified tasks is implemented to ensure safe and sustained return to work. Formal, customized RTW programs:

Provide an organized, concerted effort to ensure optimal RTW outcomes
Optimize the workplace to prevent injuries
Recognize incremental healing
Provide temporary accommodations of full-time positions
Follow employees’ abilities to facilitate safe RTW and reduce days away from work
Include entrance and exit criteria