Fitness for duty assessments
Ensure your workforce is medically and functionally ready for duty — and meet your obligations with confidence. Cogent Thinking delivers tailored Fitness for Duty Assessments to support safe return to work, ongoing role readiness and effective workforce risk-management.
Delivering tailored assessments
Why Fitness for Duty Matters
When a worker has experienced illness, injury or a non-work-related health condition, questions can arise: Can they safely perform their role? Do they need restrictions or monitoring? What support do they need to return to full duty?
A fitness for duty assessment provides clarity and assurance:
- Confirming whether a worker is fit to safely carry out their role
- Identifying how a condition may impact performance, safety or productivity
- Supporting decisions around return to work, redeployment, accommodation or performance management
- Mitigating risk to your workforce, operations and reputation
What the Assessment Includes
Our assessments are customised to your workforce, role demands and any medical or functional history. Typical components include:
- Detailed medical history and review of relevant health conditions or treatments
- Functional capacity screening including physical tests (mobility, strength, endurance) as needed
- Sensory assessments (vision/hearing) if role-relevant
- Cognitive, fatigue or psychological screening when indicated
- Drug & alcohol screening or specialist referral where required
- Certified report outlining: fitness status (fit/fit with restrictions/unfit), tasks the worker can safely perform, identified risks and recommended accommodations or next steps
- Secure delivery of results via Cogent’s online portal, with integration into your health-management or HR system
How it works
Referral & role review
You engage Cogent and provide worker and role context.
Scheduling & assessment
Worker books via our portal, attends assessment at a convenient clinic.
Clinical evaluation
Clinician conducts the assessment per your predefined protocol.
Reporting & outcome
Result and recommendations uploaded to portal; you receive summary and can review via dashboard.
Follow-up & tracking
We can support monitoring, periodic reassessments and integration into your workplace health program.
Why choose Cogent Thinking
National network of clinics and practitioners, enabling consistent service across metropolitan and regional locations
Tailored solutions matched to your role categories, workforce size and risk profile
Robust clinical governance, ensuring assessments are evidence-based, defensible and aligned with best practice
Integrated digital platform for referrals, bookings, secure reporting and data analytics
Efficient turnaround and dedicated account support to minimise disruption and enhance compliance
Get in touch
Talk to our team today about how we can build or refine a Fitness for Duty assessment program that supports your workforce and protects your operations.