Screening potential employees to ensure they can physically perform the job they've been hired to do can have significant impact on future disability costs.

The human costs are just as dramatic and often staggering.

The escalation in psychological claims over the past 10 years has been dramatic. Experts now estimate that the cost represents approximately 40% of claims on the average long-term disability plan.

What gets measured gets done.

This systematic process of program design and evaluation will ensure company support for the program.

This article fills that gap and provides a conceptual framework for the practice of Disability Management.

Employers are realizing one method of combating these rising costs is to screen prospective employees.

Depending on the industry, safety is still treated as a cost to the business—an expensive burden that most employers don’t want to think about.