Manufacturing Industry Blog

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To keep up with productivity for any business, employee health and well-being should be of the utmost importance. Various industries have high risk roles that require a comprehensive medical screening as part of their pre-employment onboarding process. Hiring teams must implement a streamlined process for conducting medical checks, which includes ensuring accessibility to clinics near the candidate, facilitating ease of completing these checks and maintaining a healthy workforce. Maintaining a healthy workforce is not only to keep employees more productive and engaged, but also leads to reduced costs associated with workers' compensation claims. HR Challenges in Medical Screening for Recruitment HR and recruitment teams face significant challenges when conducting medical checks during the hiring process, including ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory standards, managing privacy and confidentiality of sensitive health information, and dealing with the cost and time implications of these checks. The complexity of interpreting medical information without medical expertise, varying requirements for different roles and regions, and the potential negative impact on candidate experience further complicate the process. Additionally, integrating medical checks into existing HR systems, keeping health information up to date, and addressing the unique challenges of international hires require meticulous management. Solutions like WorkPro streamline these processes by centralising the management of medical checks and other compliance requirements, thereby helping HR and recruitment teams efficiently navigate these challenges, maintain legal compliance, protect candidate privacy, and enhance the candidate experience.

The shared responsibility between the host and the labour hire company is expected to be coordinated, cooperative, and collaborative, ensuring that all workers understand risks and best practices while taking measures to make the working environment as safe and healthy as reasonably practicable.

Simplifying sourcing, hiring, and onboarding processes is crucial to maintain optimal manufacturing productivity. Here are some excellent ideas and examples of how you can easily adopt a streamlined process that speeds up staff sourcing and maximises operational efficiency:

Employee engagement and company culture are buzzwords that have dominated the thoughts of human resources experts for years now. These terms are often tied to business benefits ranging from turnover rates to productivity.

Food hygiene and safety in commercial kitchens and at home has become a huge point of discussion and a key focus as a preventative measure to keep communities safe.

The finer details and nuances of a workplace induction change dramatically depending on the industry in question, especially when it comes to the Manufacturing industry.

Understanding and ensuring your shared WHS responsibilities for on-hire workers are adhered to is critical. If an accident occurs on-site and you have not created a robust WHS agreement with the other party

When you ‘on-hire’ or contract staff to work at any employer or organisation premises, the process of managing the arrangement is very complex.

Employing a new worker can be a challenging experience, regardless of how comprehensive your recruitment process is. What steps can you take to make it easy to background check your candidates.

The road to proper compliance certainly doesn’t finish once you’ve hired someone. With the help of a little automation, you can future proof your compliance from day one.