Clinical Assessment Services 

To assist in your organisation’s risk management strategies Prime offers a range of assessment services.

Whether it is pre-employment assessment to determine the applicant’s ability to undertake the requirements of a position without increased risk of injury to themselves or others, fitness for duty assessment of a current employee or complex health surveillance assessment, our expert practitioners will provide you with the information and advice you need to appropriately manage. Many assessment services can be delivered at your workplace in addition to being delivered at our clinics.

Pre-employment / pre-placement assessments

Queensland employers have an obligation to ensure health and safety under the Workplace Health and Safety Act 1995. Pre-employment or pre-placement assessments can assist your organisation in meeting this obligation. These medical assessments aim to assess applicants to determine if they are fit medically, physically and sometime psychologically to undertake the essential requirements of a position. Best practice is to design the assessment tools after determining the functional requirement from job /task analysis. Prime can assist in job task analysis and design of cost effective assessment tools.

Additionally Prime clinics have the capacity to deliver a range of medical and allied health assessments.

Pre-employment assessment is the ideal time to document baseline data for reference in future health surveillance. Prime can combine pre-employment and baseline medical assessment requirements.

Specialised Medicals

Prime clinics are able to deliver a range of specialised medical assessments to assist you in managing your employee’s health and fitness for work, as well as complying with relevant statutory requirements.

Prime has practitioners able to deliver:

• Rail Safety Health Assessments
• Commercial Drivers Medical Assessments
• Qld Coalboard Medicals and other Mining Medical Assessments
• Aviation Medical Assessments
• UKOOA Medical Assessments
• AMSA
• HUET Medical Assessments
• Confined Spaces Medical Assessments

Health surveillance

Prime Health Group (Qld) offers a range of health surveillance assessments to meet your organisations statutory and non statutory requirements.

Specifically we offer:

• Hazardous substance assessments complying with the Workplace Health and Safety Regulation 2008 and 'Guidelines for Health Surveillance' [NOHSC:7039(1995)].
• Lead health surveillance and biological monitoring complying with the Workplace Health and Safety Regulation 2008 and National Code of Practice for the Control and Safe Use of Inorganic Lead at Work [NOHSC:2015(1994)]
• Health surveillance designed according to your organisation’s specific hazards and goals.

Suitable duties consultation

Suitable duties consultations are aimed at assisting employers where the recommended constraints / capabilities are not consistent with what would be expected for a similar injury or condition for a particular individual. Our experienced occupational doctors and physicians can undertake a targeted assessment and provide an independent report on the individual’s capacity to undertake suitable duties.

Additionally our doctors can contact treating doctors and facilitate a return to work or upgrade of suitable duties as indicated.

Fitness for duty / complex case management

Where the case is complex our experienced occupational doctors and physicians offer a consultation service to advise on management strategies and assess the risk an individual poses to an organisation now and the foreseeable risk for the future.  In providing this service our doctors consider the employers obligations under various and sometimes conflicting legislation covering workplace health and safety, antidiscrimination and industrial relations.

This service will assist your organisation in dealing with problems such as:

• Assistance with rehabilitation of workers with complicated injuries particularly involving a psychological component.
• Non-work related medical problems which may impact on an employee’s ongoing ability to safely and productively perform their duties
• Excess absenteeism or other management issues where a medical condition may be involved
• Drug or alcohol issues where the employer has no defined policy to determine a course of action.
• Sensitive cases
• Complicated “fitness to work” assessments

Testing services are available at your site (including remote locations) or our clinics. We offer a range of testing methods to suit your organisation’s needs, and all testing is undertaken by trained and competency tested staff following the Australian Standard procedures. We take alcohol and other drug testing seriously, as an organisation providing medical services our staff understand the importance of providing a professional service.

Our services include comprehensive documentation systems to meet legislative, privacy and industrial relations requirements and we are very competitively priced.

Prime is able to provide advice on the management of individuals post drug and alcohol testing.  This service includes the review, interpretation and risk management assessment of individuals post testing both on initial testing and confirmatory results. Recommendations on management and an appropriate interval for retesting given the individual employee’s results are also provided.