For employers, insurers and safety teams
Clear answers early, because the vague ones are what cost you.
You have legal obligations, a workforce to run, and a cost that grows for every week a situation stays unresolved. That is a reasonable thing to care about, and most of the time it is not in tension with looking after the person — the same decision usually serves both.
Where we can help
Rail safety worker assessments
Category 1, 2 and 3 health assessments under the National Standard — pre-employment, periodic and triggered — at your depot or in clinic, with recall scheduling so certifications do not lapse.
Rail assessment programs →Workplace injury & return to work
Fitness-for-duty and pre-employment assessments, return-to-work planning and injury management oversight.
Injury & return to work →How I work with employers
The most expensive claim is the unclear one
Ambiguity is what bleeds money. Months of “unfit” with no detail, no duties and no review date costs considerably more than a clear statement of what someone can do and when that will be looked at again.
Where a person can safely be at work, I will say so, and I will say specifically what they can and cannot do — against the real demands of the role, not a generic template. That is the part that actually shortens claims.
Some injuries do mean time off
Severity decides that, not attitude. Where an injury is going to cost time, you will hear it from me early and with a timeframe, so you can plan around it rather than discover it three months in.
Optimism that is not clinically supported is the most expensive thing I could sell you. It comes back as re-injury, as a reopened claim, and as a longer absence than the honest answer would have cost in the first place.
Assessments that hold up
Everything I write has to survive being read by someone else — your insurer, a reviewer, a tribunal, the next doctor. So it is written plainly, it says what it is based on, and it does not overreach.
Which is also why I will not certify capacity that is not there, however convenient it would be for either side of a claim. Pressure applied to a return-to-work plan does not disappear; it resurfaces later, usually as something more expensive and harder to defend than the original problem.
Tailored, yes. Manufactured, no.
In practice that protects you as much as the worker. An assessment that was written to order is the one that falls apart at exactly the moment you need it to stand.
What you can expect
One assessor
The same person across your workforce, so reports are comparable year to year.
Plain language
Written so your safety team can act on it without an interpreter.
Realistic duties
Restrictions matched to the actual job, with a defined review point.
Prompt turnaround
Because a decision you are waiting on is a cost that is still running.
Tell me about your workforce
Site, headcount, what you need assessed and by when. You will get a straight answer on scheduling and cost.
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