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Hire smarter with data-driven pre-employment screening.
Actevate uses a unique two-step screening process combining an evidence-based online assessment with optional face-to-face evaluations by accredited Allied Health Professionals. This approach helps employers reduce workplace injuries and compensation claims by delivering the critical insights needed to hire resilient candidates fit for the role.
Protect your organisation and safeguard your people.
A pre-employment health assessment (also known as a Fit for Work Assessment) is a proactive screening tool used before an employee starts. It evaluates a candidate’s physical and mental capacity against the specific, inherent requirements of their future role.
This objective, data-driven approach allows your hiring team to make confident, compliant placement decisions while identifying areas where reasonable workplace adjustments can support safe, inclusive hiring.
Actevate's unique two-step screening process.
Our unique two-step approach to pre-employment medical and WHS screening combines an online questionnaire exploring physical, psychological and medical history risk screening, followed by an optional face-to-face assessment completed by Actevate’s team of experienced and accredited Allied Health Professionals.
Actevate Profiler: Online Pre-Employment Screening
Delivering significant benefits for both employers and employees.
All-in-One Assessment
One assessment covering injury risk, claims risk, mental health, resilience and role fitness.
Safe & Cost-Effective Hiring
Keeps candidates out of unsafe roles, at less cost than a functional assessment.
Eliminates Bias and Inconsistency
Removes the bias and inconsistency of traditional physician-led screening.
Immediate Insights & Guidance
A snapshot of candidate risk, with guidance to build a safety plan.
Impartial & Verified
Risk ratings verified by accredited Allied Health professionals, not one opinion.
Flexible & Informed Decisions
Hire with clear insight into injury, claims, mental health and WHS risk.
Functional Testing: Guided Pre-Employment Health Screening
Tailored to the demands of the role, with actionable insights on injury and claims risk.
Reduce Injury & Claims Risk
Unscreened staff are 34% more likely to be injured and cost four times more in claims.
Actionable Risk Reporting
Reports set out the risk and the practical steps needed to manage it.
Targeted Job-Specific Assessment
Tailored to the role, catching at-risk candidates a standard medical would pass.
Increase Productivity & Safety
The right hire means fewer sick days, safer culture and lower claim costs.
Comprehensive Health Screening
Covers cognitive, behavioural, medical history, musculoskeletal, vision and BMI, plus optional add-ons.
Fast, Flexible & National Coverage
Fast turnaround, with secure online booking and reporting across Australia and New Zealand.
We combine precision with speed.
We understand that hiring is a race against time, but safety can’t be compromised. We deliver thorough assessments with quick turnaround times so you can hire with complete confidence. Our secure personalised interactive portal provides an easy-to-use booking system, giving you peace of mind with real-time monitoring throughout the entire pre-employment process.
By matching a candidate’s physical capabilities to the specific demands of the role, our functional testing significantly reduces the risk of workplace injuries and long-term workers' compensation claims.
Role-specific testing.
Reduced claim exposure.
Safe, inclusive hiring.
Baseline records.
Who pays for pre-employment screenings?
As the requesting employer, your business covers the cost of the pre-employment medical. That upfront investment protects you against injury claims and long-term liabilities that cost many times more. It also removes any financial barrier for candidates, keeping onboarding fast and straightforward.
How health screenings reduce workplace injuries and claims.
Pre-employment medical screenings act as your front-line defence against rising insurance premiums and WorkCover liabilities. By objectively matching a candidate's physical capabilities against the demands of the job, you screen out high-risk mismatches before they lead to costly on-site incidents.
Actevate's data-backed approach not only drastically lowers your lost time injury frequency rates (LTIFR) but also provides robust documentation to defend against fraudulent claims, ultimately driving down your overall workers' compensation costs.
Reduced turnover costs.
Lower insurance premiums.
Increased productivity.
Baseline records.
The long-term impact of screening
Pre-employment screening moves your business from reacting to workplace injuries to preventing them. By verifying a candidate's physical capability before they start, you establish a baseline that prevents costly hiring mismatches. The difference shows up across four cost areas.
Our pre-employment medical assessment includes:
Job-specific health and functional screening
We map the physical, ergonomic and environmental demands of the specific role, then measure the candidate against them.
Cognitive and behavioural screening
Evidence-based measures of resilience, psychological readiness and behavioural risk, assessed alongside the physical screen.
Medical History
A structured record of prior injuries, conditions and treatment, establishing a documented baseline before the candidate starts.
Height, weight, body mass index (BMI)
Baseline measurements taken at the point of hire, used alongside the wider screen to flag elevated physical risk.
Visual acuity including colour vision test
Near, distance and colour vision testing, which matters for driving, plant operation and other safety critical roles.
Musculoskeletal examination
A face to face check of strength, posture, joint movement and safe lifting capacity, completed by an accredited clinician.
Legislated medicals we also deliver
Some roles cannot legally be filled without a specific medical assessment, and most of these must be repeated at set intervals. Actevate delivers all three alongside standard pre-employment screening, so you can manage them through one provider.
Driver medicals
Commercial vehicle, bus and truck drivers, assessed against the national fitness to drive standards and repeated at the required intervals.
Rail safety medicals
All three rail safety worker categories. Category 3 assessments are completed in-house by an Authorised Health Professional, with Categories 1 and 2 delivered through our medical network.
Hazardous substance medicals
Health monitoring for workers exposed to asbestos, silica and other hazardous substances, at the intervals set out in WHS regulations.
Legislated medicals must be conducted to a government-defined standard, and only practitioners holding the required qualifications can carry them out. Every assessment is delivered by an appropriately qualified Actevate clinician, with medical sign-off provided through our clinical network where the standard requires it.
Industries we screen for
Every assessment is built around the inherent requirements of the role, so the standard we screen against changes with the industry and the job. A warehouse picker, a rail safety worker and a case manager face very different demands, and screening them to the same generic benchmark tells you very little. We work across a broad range of sectors, with the deepest experience in these six.
Optional add-ons:
Functional Assessments.
Actevate helps employers identify whether an employee is able to meet the inherent requirements of a particular role by assessing functional performance.
Audiometry (Hearing Assessments)
Our professional audiometry screening tracks hearing thresholds across multiple frequencies to catch early signs of occupational hearing damage.
Drug and Alcohol Screening
Our testing integrates with broader policy pillars including random testing programs, post-incident testing following workplace accidents, and for cause testing.
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“Actevate really get where our risks are and we wouldn't take anyone unless they were screened by Actevate first.”
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Tell us about the roles you are hiring for and one of our team will call you back within one business day. You can also reach us directly at hello@actevate.com.au.
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