Job simulation
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Job simulation is a therapeutic approach that integrates job-specific situations into treatment for injured workers, maintaining their connection to work duties. It helps in assessing capabilities, reducing fear of re-injury, and customizing therapy to individual needs, making it beneficial in various fields such as industrial therapy and sports medicine. Job simulations aim to prepare individuals for returning to work by simulating actual tasks and environments while ensuring safety and building confidence.
Job simulation
- 2. What is a Job Simulation? By adding job-specific situations to traditional treatment, work simulation helps keep an injured worker connected to job duties, and prevents him from becoming just a patient. Or job simulation can be define as putting a worker in a similar or mock situation that closely resemble the task or tasks that worker perform on the job Education progressive increase of weighted activities and practice in the safe environment can be the primary purpose of job simulation
- 3. Job simulation is always individualized process and also job demand specific designed Industrial Health integrates work simulation into the acute phase of physical therapy, helping establish the injured worker’s capabilities and maintain his/her confidence. By using specific work stations, such as lifting or sorting, Industrial Health can customize the job functions for each injured worker, ensuring that therapy is targeted to the worker’s needs.
- 4. History of job simulation It has been a focal point in the fields of occupational therapy and vocational rehabilitation Many peoples are benefited from this therapy including victims of war ,heart attack, stroke, amputees, mentally ill, the congenital handicapped, blinds and elderly Matheson’s work includes the use of the west equipment to quantify a workers function abilities and to simulate the work environment
- 5. Advantages to job simulations Higher predictive validity: If a candidate scores well on a job simulation, they are more likely to perform the job well. Better applicant insight into the job role: Job applicants are exposed to the tasks they will perform and can determine whether they would able to perform the work. Fairness: Because simulations are job-related, job applicants can immediately understand the relationship of the test to the job and perceive the evaluation process as more fair than other employment tests.
- 6. Jon simulation fields of application Industrial therapy Sport medicine Cardiac therapy Auto and personal injuries (RTA)
- 7. consideration Safety consideration Fear consideration Other consideration
- 8. Safety consideration Safety is a primary reason why actual performance of the job is not appropriate rehabilitation after injury, it is not safe for worker to perform job fully so job need to be break down to independent component in order to perform them in safe manner. In controlled work conditioning environment the injured employee can begin handling the maximum load at waist level, then lesser loads from floor and overhead, after building endurance to carrying on level surface and practice climbing stairs ramps, uneven or slippery surface with no load. task can be combined by
- 9. Fear consideration Other primary objective of the job is to bring down the barrier of fear, to over come that fear again task need to be break into individual component and making them less recognisable It is very common for worker do develop fear of reinjury. Efforts of rehabilitation is fail unless the fear is addressed, in this condition the recovering person can relapse because of fear By job simulation the worker can gradualy overcome the fear motion by motion and task by task
- 10. Other consideration like uncooperative employer, where the injury is to severe to even consider the approach or where the worker have been off of the job and have already faced difficulty returning Many times employer are unwilling to make accommodation for light duty to accommodate an injured worker, if there is work place issue off site job simulation is an effective alternative way Many employer have felt that they have been returned by temporary light duty becomes permanent. although medical personnel may view such employer as uncooperative there are often very good reasons for this reluctance. In other cases employers must deal with seniority issues, particularly if there is a union. Worker who cannot return to there former job often cause morale problem with other worker.
- 11. Job simulation approaches General simulation • Equipment selection • Safety consideration • Clientele consideration • Simulation physical demands Specific simulation • Equipment consideration • Worksite consideration
- 12. General simulation General job simulation tends to work on a part of the body or a part of body task. General simulation uses simulted physical depend. The physical demand of overhead reaching can be initiallt simulated by having a worker, a work with bolt box on a height shelf. General job simulation is used as a bridge between education, specific excs. Technique and specific job simulation activity. A mirror can be used to assist the individual in self correcting, as they practice.
- 13. Specific simulation After improving the workers ability to perform the general physical demands of the job, the worker is ready for more specific simulation. A simulation of actual task simultaneously performing more than 1 physical demand this is termed as ‘Specific Job Simulation’. The individual is working near the required height, weight with depending on the objectives of specific simulation can also be progressed in the amount of time and speed at which the worker perform the task.
- 14. Lifting and Caring Any type or size of container Commercially available lifting boxes Heavy duty plastic bags filled with sands Concrete blocks Buckets Lifting and stacking station and various height shelf Work simulator equipment Bag of cement or other substances Commercially available materials handling station
- 15. Stationary Standing Functional assessment upper extremity work sample equipment Circuit boards small assembly Building trades equipment's Bolt box assembly line Work simulator equipment Electric hobby kits
- 16. Standing and Walking Combination Collecting, filing and copying Alternating between 2 standing activities with time pattern which simulate work station Lifting, caring, pushing or pulling can be considered walking activity
- 17. Sitting Typing Sewing Driving simulation Stuffing envelopes Small assembly projects Other therapeutic activities projects such as those that are at the time used in occupational therapy or recreational therapt depts.
- 18. Other activities Climbing Balancing Sustained reaching Kneeling Sustained squatting Upper extremity coordination
- 19. Progression from general to specific simulation As a individual progresses in the programme more time should be spend performing general and eventual specific simulation activities. Less time is spend on education, pan and stress management and other components of the programme. Things to be considered are Rejob analysis, physical examination and history. Work hardening is also important before re-joining the actual work.
- 20. Examples of Job Simulations Secretary Test Review Expense Report Guidelines. Identify problem areas in expense reports. Schedule an offsite meeting. Perform cost analysis for travel authorization. Customer Service Representative Test Verify customer Information. Calculate a customer’s usage requirements. Determine a customer’s eligibility for a discount. Interpret a series of customer complaint emails. Accurately notify customers of a product or service change.
- 21. Sales Representative Test Correctly calculate an invoice, factoring company promotion into the final sale price. Schedule multiple customer meetings. Communicate product information to customer. Evaluate customer needs for a proposal. Retail Sales Test Demonstrate an understanding of different product lines. Calculate a total purchase price, including maintenance, for a product over two years. Help customers make a purchase decision based on their needs. Confirm product availability.