Alpine PT Occupational Health Team

Occupational Health promotes and maintains the highest level of safety and physical well-being for optimal performance within a specific job setting. At Alpine PT, we offer several components to build a safe and effective working environment as well as prepare and clear employees for best fitted positions.
Current research demonstrates significant reduction with on the job injury and unnecessary disability when occupational health is used for pre placement testing, safety in lifting, early interventions, and early active intervention.

Alpine's Occupational Health Services

Alpine offers a range of occupational health services. Click on the expandable list below to learn more about how our occupational health specialists can help your company.

Ergonomic Analysis

Simple changes in the way people do their tasks can make a major impact on reduced work injuries. Our ergonomic experts offer cost-effective remedies when and where needed.

Functional Testing

With our location, equipment, and expertise, we are able to perform functional tests to ensure that your workers are safe to do their jobs. In the event an employee is injured, we can tailor specific tests to mimic the job duties of the injured worker. In so doing, we can quickly get to you the information you need to make hiring decisions or needed changes within your work flow and work areas. Our approach facilitates open communication and swift return to work of injured employees.

Onsite education courses and testing

Getting current information on safety and performance can be challenging; the Alpine Occupational Health Team is ready to come to your site to provide courses on ergonomics, lifting mechanics, injury management and prevention education, and movement screens for performance. These are great team building opportunities as well as ways to invest in your team who works hard and plays hard.

Job site Analysis

We routinely perform functional job analyses, which define the “critical demands” portion of the job description. It outlines the physical requirements necessary to perform the key tasks of the job. An evaluation of the critical demands will define the tasks being done, how often they are being done, and the weights and forces the employee must generate when completing the tasks.

Pre-placement and post offer employment work screens

The Alpine Occupational Health Team can evaluate the physical capabilities of your newly hired employees or employee candidates. This testing is done to effectively test whether or not the employee possesses the necessary physical abilities to perform the minimum job responsibilities safely and efficiently. These can be scheduled onsite or at the clinic for week of appointments.

Stay at work and return to work for worker's compensation care

The Alpine Occupational Health team is highly skilled and enjoys incorporating the job demands into the physical therapy sessions when treating a client who was injured on the job. It is important to understand what the functional job description needs are and what the client can do within that description as well as what goals will need to be met for full return to work safely. Early active interventions, self-efficacy, independent home exercises, and prescriptive loading are used in worker’s rehabilitation treatment at Alpine PT and are proven to get positive results by research.

Work Hardening

Work hardening is a highly structured goal-oriented, individualized treatment program designed to return a person to work. Our program is interdisciplinary in nature and uses real or simulated work activities designed to restore physical, behavioral, and vocational functions. Our program addresses the issues of productivity, safety, physical tolerances, and worker behaviors. Our physical plant is ideal for instituting this type of program, particularly due to the equipment and space afforded at the Peak Health & Wellness Center. Please call our offices to discuss ways we can foster the health and wellness of your workforce.

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Call Alpine today to discuss the ways our injury specialists can help you and your organization with work injury management.