EVENING SESSION - Assessment of fitness for work

Session details

Date:

Time:

7:00pm - 8:15pm (Toronto time)

Location:

Zoom videoconferencing

Didactic presentation by:

Anil Adisesh

Session objectives

At the end of this session, participants should be able to:

  1. Understand and explain the concept of “workability”
  2. Apply functional principles to facilitate “workability”
  3. Outline the types of barriers to return to work and the role of the physician in overcoming them

Session resources

Become an RCMP officer: undergo medical and psychological suitability assessments
Fitness for duty requirements for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Source: Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Canadian Armed Forces Medical Standards: Annex A - The Medical Category System
Procedures that outline fitness for duty requirements and oversight from medical professionals when evaluate recruits. Source: Government of Canada
Construction worker health assessment guidance
Page 20 of the guide shows blood pressure targets for safety critical jobs and what to do if readings exceed them. Source: Society of Occupational Medicine (UK)
Defence Administrative Orders and Directives (DAOD) 5002-1, Enrolment
Procedures that outline fitness for duty requirements and oversight from medical professionals when evaluate recruits. Source: Government of Canada
Didactic presentation: Assessment of fitness for work
In this presentation, Dr. Anil Adisesh explains the concept of “workability”, applies functional principles to facilitate “workability”, and outline the types of barriers to return to work and the role of the physician in overcoming them.

About presenter

Dr. Anil Adisesh received his medical degrees at the University of Liverpool, UK. He is UK trained in general medicine, with UK accreditation in family medicine and UK specialty accreditation in occupational medicine. 

Adisesh worked as Deputy Chief Medical Officer at the UK Health and Safety Executive national laboratory, Buxton. He was subsequently appointed the inaugural JD Irving Limited, Research Chair in Occupational Medicine at Dalhousie University, and was later Associate Professor and Division Director of Occupational Medicine in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto. He was also Head of the Division of Occupational Medicine at St. Michael’s Hospital Toronto.

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