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What is Video PDA®?
Video PDA® is an innovation that enables organizations to reduce
the human and financial costs of disabilities. This is achieved
by a carefully laid foundation enabling both an effective injury
prevention and disability management program.
Video PDA® is a web based application that stores Physical
Demands Analysis (PDA) in a searchable database along with video
footage of the representative physical stressors. This allows all
stakeholders both internally and externally timely access to pertinent
information for compensation and return to work decisions.
The foundation of an effective
and holostic Ability Management Program thus:
"Bringing Ability to
Disability Management"
Why Video PDA®?
Video PDA® allows organizations to leverage their PDA information
in the following ways:
Claims Management: Video PDA® provides
timely access to external stakeholders (Insurers, Disability Management
companies or Third Party Administrators, rehabilitation providers,
physicians, etc.); expedite the return to work process through the
"Abilities Search" function; allows for the identification
of modified work that promotes gradual restoration of functional
abilities; aids in the cost recovery appeals process.
Occupational & Non-occupational Injuries: Integration
of Ability Management Programs is somewhat of a challenge for most
organizations. it would seem that there are two completely different
claims management approaches to occupational and non-occupational
injuries and illness. Video PDA® allows for a single consistent
process that stakeholders in both occupational and non-occupational
claims management can follow.
Injury Prevention: Using the ergonomic search
function within Video PDA®, organizations can quickly identify
all the job positions that contain job tasks with high risk activities.
This allows organizations to take preventative measures such as
training (i.e. safe lifting techniques) or even engineer out the
risk (i.e. install a jib crane).
Cost recovery: Video PDA® is a web based application
that allows all parties involved access to necessary pertinent information.
Attendance Management: Keeping employees
at work in productive and meaningful activities is a challenge at
the best of times. Video PDA® helps to overcome this challenge,
by helping to reduce both the number and duration of lost time claims,
matching current and potential employee abilities with the physical
requirements of the job, and helping to eliminate the development
of psycho-social issues associated with absenteeism due to injury
or illness.
Post Offer Employment Testing: The outcome
of POET is to ensure that the applicants' physical capabilities
are equal to or greater than the physical demands of the job. Video
PDA® captures the bona-fide phyiscal requirements and enables
the implementation of an effective POET program.
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