Pre-Placement Health Assessments

Pre-Placement Health Assessments:-

A pre-placement health assessment is undertaken by a health professional as part of the risk assessment process and (usually) only after a job offer has been made.


The reasons for undertaking pre-placement health assessments are to:

• Ensure that all new employees are medically fit to fulfil the duties and responsibilities that are intrinsic to their role.

• Consider reasonable adjustments that could be made to assist the person in their role.

• Assess whether the job may adversely affect the new employee’s health and whether any extra precautions are therefore needed.

• Provide a record of health information as a baseline for comparison before work begins (such as a hearing test on a worker before they begin work in a high-noise environment).