Job Ergonomic Analysis
The ADA specifically addresses the necessity of a job analysis that identifies essential job requirements of each category of employee to be tested. By having the evaluation done in conjunction with the independent who is performing the actual job tests, the evaluations are given quantitative validity while the employer's negligence is decreased.
Analysis may be as simple as weighing objects and measuring the distances workers handle them, to as sophisticated as filming the activity, and using high tech computer analysis to calculate acceptable and unsafe work limits to all body motions involved in the job. Ergonomic analysis of this nature gives content validity to the testing process by establishing valid job descriptions and subsequent testing that are consistent with business necessity.
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