Pre-Employment Medical Assessments
Identify health risks in job candidates with specialised and efficient pre-employment assessments.
Trusted by leading Australian employers.
What Is A PEM Assessment?
Pre-employment medical (PEM) assessments are tests conducted by qualified healthcare professionals.
They’re used to screen job candidates for pre-existing health conditions, such as AOD use, asthma, and musculoskeletal injuries.
PEMs help you check that candidates are physically qualified for roles – and identify health risks that may need to be managed or monitored during employment.
Some industries, like coal mining, have legislated medical assessments for certain roles. We provide PEMs for a variety of requirements and completely customise the assessments to your needs.
Start your PEM process with us today by completing our onboarding form.
Why Choose RediMed?
We provide innovative, holistic, end-to-end healthcare for all individuals through our multidisciplinary approach. With over 200 healthcare professionals and everything under one roof, your specific needs and requirements are carefully identified and managed every step of the way by your dedicated customer relationship manager.
We make the complex simple – by delivering integrated health services to help businesses and individuals effectively manage health conditions and optimise recovery outcomes.
Each assessment is conducted by a single healthcare practitioner – enjoy a seamless experience with no referral waiting times.
Our PEMs are carefully tailored to each job description, delivering better candidate–role fit than generic assessments.
Same-day booking availability means you can move qualified candidates to the next hiring stage as quickly as possible.
Each assessment report includes a detailed clinical explanation of candidate results.
If a candidate can’t attend their assessment, you can replace their booking with another candidate’s at no cost through our portal.
Get your candidates screened on site to simplify and speed up the assessment process.
Types Of
Pre-Employment Medicals
Screen your candidates with standard PEMs and add on specific options like audiometry, or request specialised tests like rail medicals.
Functional Assessments
AOD Screening
Spirometry
Coal Health Assessments
Rail Safety Medicals
Audiometry
Commercial Driver Assessments
Monitor Your People’s Health
Health monitoring is a type of screening that monitors current employees who are exposed to hazardous substances.
What Does A Standard PEM Involve?
- a medical history questionnaire
- a lifestyle and employment history questionnaire
- blood pressure testing
- an eye exam
- a urinalysis
- a body mass index (BMI) test.
- audiometry (hearing) assessments
- spirometry (lung function tests)
- ear fit testing
- ECGs
- functional capacity assessments
- mask fit testing
- chest X-rays and CT scans
- blood lipid and HbA1c tests
- fatigue questionnaires
- K10 mental health questionnaires
- heat questionnaires.
Our PEM Assessment Process
Pre-Employment Medicals FAQs
Different PEM assessments take different amounts of time. Most workplace healthcare providers deliver the results for a ‘standard’ PEM the same or next business day. Longer assessments with more complex testing requirements can take longer.
At RediMed, the results for all PEMs conducted in clinic or by our mobile testing units are usually delivered to you within 24 hours. This turnaround may be extended if we are awaiting further information however if results are not delivered within 24 hours you will be notified.
If you aren’t recruiting within our clinical service areas, results for PEMs conducted by our Alliance Network clinics will be delivered within 72 hours.
Non-specialised PEMs are requested by employers to improve employee–role fit and reduce injury risk. They’re not required under legislation, and, as such, don’t have an ‘expiry’ date. Generally, though, if you do require PEMs for certain roles, those roles should have periodic medical testing conducted at intervals recommended by your RediMed relationship manager.
Pre-employment medical assessments are designed to make sure the candidate in question can meet the role’s physical requirements and to identify injury risk factors. Identifying medically unfit candidates before hiring means time and money aren’t wasted onboarding workers who aren’t role-appropriate. That, in turn, helps improve productivity and lower liability risks.
PEMs also effectively benchmark workers’ health, which eliminates the risk of compensation claims for pre-existing conditions. (In some cases, workers may not even be aware that they have health conditions.)
Finally, some industries and roles have legislated sets of tests. Rail safety workers, for example, must undergo specific PEMs based on their rail safety work risk category. In those scenarios, PEMs can help you meet your legal obligations and avoid regulator involvement.
We have 6 RediMed clinics sited across Western Australia and Queensland that your candidates can attend for PEM assessments. We can also deploy mobile testing units to locations of your choice, such as corporate offices, field headquarters, or work sites.
If neither option is appropriate for your candidates, assessments can be conducted by members of our Alliance Network – qualified healthcare partners located in capital cities and regional centres across Australia.
