Pre-Employment Screening: Its Use and Usefulness

Evidence base for pre-employment medical screening.

This paper examines the evidence base for the use of pre-employment/pre-placement medical examinations. The use of pre-employment examinations is often driven more by cultural practices than evidence. There is a lack of evidence on their effectiveness in preventing health-related occupational risks. Hypertension screening is highlighted as a common pre-employment practice for which there is no ...

Pre-employment screening among trainee bakers.

OBJECTIVES To assess the prevalence of atopy in a vocational school so as to evaluate the feasibility of pre-employment screening. METHODS The prevalence of atopy by family diathesis, prick tests, immunoglobulin E (IgE) concentrations, and personal history of allergic respiratory diseases was investigated in 144 trainee bakers and 81 students on a graphic artists course (mean age 15.4 years)....

Pre-employment screening among health care workers--ethical issues.

Occupational health practitioners deal with the questions of confidentiality, relation between the right to work and the right to health, between individual freedom and the risks other can run. An audit of pre-employment health assessment of health care workers, in the United Kingdom and in France, discussed the efficiency of pre-employment screening. Screening tests and medical examinations sh...

Does pre-employment drug use predict on-the-job suitability?

Drug testing is increasingly used in the screening of applicants for employment. Despite the growth of drug testing, there is little research that examines the value of pre-employment drug-use information in the prediction of post-employment suitability. This research, which was based on a sample of 10,i88 young adults, examined the criterion-related validity of pre-employment drug-use informat...

Pre-Employment Integrity Testing: