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1 <br />1 <br />City of Santa Ana Response to Request for Proposal (RFP) Medical Services Review 2/9J15 <br />Legally Defensible Job Analysis <br />Every medical exam performed by Occu-Med is done so in order to comply with a legal requirements <br />surrounding what is permissible for pre -placement and periodic medical evaluations under the ADAAA, <br />FEHA and GINA. Put simply, we do notjust ask the applicant or employee if he or she is able to "do the <br />job" or "return to work", rather, our approach provides a quantifiable way to make such a determination <br />for each applicant and/or employee as part of an individualized assessment. <br />The cornerstone of creating legal defensibility in OwU-Med's EXAN1QA Occupational Medicine Program <br />begins with the administration of Job Analysis, i.e. initially validating all medical testing performed <br />through a statistically validated method. Job Profiles (see APPENDIX B) are prepared for use in <br />evaluating pre -placement, fitness -for -duty and return -to -work medical examinations by conducting on- <br />site job analysis sessions. The procedure utilized during the job analysis sessions is the same one that we <br />have used for more than 3,000 other agencies: Physical Abilities Analysis. <br />Physical Abilities Analysis is a structured .-roup process that involves interviewing job incumbents from <br />the job being analyzed. In preparation for these job analysis sessions OOCu-Med works with the City to <br />determine statistically valid sample sizes (number of job incumbents) for the job classes and schedule the <br />sessions. During the job analysis sessions, incumbents are asked to identify the most demanding essential <br />job tasks for 19 physical ability categories, and then they are instructed to rate those tasks on a 7 -point, <br />behaviorally -anchored scale. The incumbents are also asked to complete a questionnaire that addresses <br />the environmental factors that they may be exposed to in their job. Overall, each session requires about <br />one and one-half hours to complete. <br />Data collected will then be qualitatively and statistically analyzed to develop Job Profiles and Medical <br />Examination Component Profiles for eachjob class studied. The Job Profile accurately and fully the most <br />demanding essential job tasks of the jobs studied, and the Medical Examination Component Profile (see <br />APPENDIX C) details the specific medical tests thatarejob-related and consistent with business <br />necessity and therefore recommended to find or diagnose the medical or physical conditions that would <br />be of concern for thatjob. <br />50ccu Med - _ _ _. _ ��..._ <br />