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An Employer’s Job Analysis and Post-Offer Employment Integration Success Story (Room Islander B-C)

Cosentino’s Food Stores decreased employee lifting injuries 67 percent after conducting an essential functions analysis for each worker role and combining the findings with post-offer employment testing. In addition to reducing accident frequency, the regional employer’s strategy delivers information that physical therapists apply when crafting return-to-work programs for Cosentino’s associates that do experience work-related incidents. Learn how the strategy prevents injuries, assists with injured-worker functional improvement and enhances the process for returning associates to jobs that match their physical abilities.