Question 1

Does testing single out the weakest people?

Accepted Answer

No, and it is built so it cannot. Individual results go to the worker and stay in their clinical record. You receive aggregate reporting only, above a minimum group size. Capacity data is a health record, not a performance record, and we will not supply it for employment decisions.

Question 2

Is a strength test safe for an older or deconditioned worker?

Accepted Answer

Yes. The ForceFrame measures isometric force, meaning the worker pushes against a fixed pad and nothing moves. There is no lift, no jump and no technique to get wrong, which is exactly why we use it on site rather than a force plate.

Question 3

How long does it take per person?

Accepted Answer

A first full assessment is the longest appointment we run, and follow-up retests are considerably shorter. Because there is nothing to learn and nothing to warm up for, a queue moves faster than most employers expect.

Question 4

We already have an EAP and a benefits plan. Why add this?

Accepted Answer

Those are claim-triggered: they pay once someone is already unwell. Paramedical services claims grew 16% in a single year, which tells you utilisation is rising, not that injuries are falling. Capacity measurement runs before the claim and gives you a number to manage.

Question 5

What do we actually get back?

Accepted Answer

An aggregate capacity profile for the site, the deficits that appear most often, the tasks producing them, and a retest trend line you can put in front of a board or an insurer. Plus whatever your regulator needs to evidence prevention activity.

Question 6

Does this help with our premiums?

Accepted Answer

Every province ties premium to claim experience, and several pay directly for documented prevention activity. Ontario's prevention programme rebates up to 2× your previous year's reported premiums; British Columbia's certification incentive returns 10% of base assessment premiums. We can supply the evidence those programmes ask for.

Question 7

Where do you work?

Accepted Answer

On-site across Canada, with delivery scheduled around your shift pattern including nights and weekends. Multi-site employers get a consistent protocol so results are comparable between locations.

Question 8

Is this only about backs and shoulders?

Accepted Answer

That is where we start, because that is where the claims are. But mental health now drives almost 40% of new long term disability claims, and 49% of musculoskeletal long term disability claimants are also claiming for mental disorder medication. Physical and psychological load are the same problem seen twice.

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What employers get back

It is not bad lifting.It is not enough capacity.

Those are national numbers. Put yours in.

No feel. A number.

VALD ForceFrame

Built from the deficit we found.

Bulletproof Back

Shoulder Boulders

PostureStrong

456 Canadian numbers.All linked.

Where Canadian workers get hurt

Every documented Canadian return clears break even

5 Canadian employers. 5 published results.

A written return to work policy halved time off

Changing the task beat treating the injury

Psychological health and safety showed up in the absence numbers

A defined care pathway cut shoulder claim duration by 2 months

Conservative care first cut imaging and the surgical queue at once

A written return to work policy halved time off

Changing the task beat treating the injury

Psychological health and safety showed up in the absence numbers

A defined care pathway cut shoulder claim duration by 2 months

Conservative care first cut imaging and the surgical queue at once

Start with one shift.