Workplace & Ergonomic Assessments · icare & Lifetime Care
Workplace & Ergonomic Assessments for icare & Lifetime Care
For people with severe injuries from a workplace or motor accident, care and rehabilitation is coordinated by icare, including through the Lifetime Care and Support Scheme. Where returning to or staying in work is a goal, a workplace and ergonomic assessment sets out the adjustments that make safe, sustainable work possible around significant ongoing needs. Here the assessment is one strand of a long-term plan that the scheme coordinates.
How it works under icare and Lifetime Care
icare schemes fund treatment, rehabilitation and care for people with serious injuries from a workplace or a motor accident, and the Lifetime Care and Support Scheme covers the most severe, long-term injuries. Under these schemes, work participation — where it is a goal — is one part of a longer plan that the scheme coordinates. A workplace and ergonomic assessment supports that goal. Our consultant observes the role and workstation, analyses the physical demands, and weighs them against the person's current capacity as certified by their treating team. Because the injuries covered here are significant and the horizon is long, the adjustments are often more substantial, and the assessment is revisited as capacity and participation goals change. We coordinate the assessment with the person's scheme coordinator and liaise with the treating team; we do not provide the treatment or care itself.
Who refers and who funds
For an icare or Lifetime Care and Support claim, the referral usually comes from the person's icare coordinator, planner or case manager, and family or the injured person can ask the scheme to arrange an assessment. The scheme funds approved services that are reasonable and necessary and related to the injury — nothing out of pocket for the injured person, because the scheme pays for approved services. Because these are long-term schemes, funding is not a one-off: approval is confirmed for the assessment, and the work can be reviewed and re-approved as needs and goals change over time.
What the report gives you
The report feeds the person's care and participation plan rather than closing a claim. It sets out the demands of the role, the ergonomic risk, and the adjustments — to equipment, task, layout or work pattern — that make safe, sustainable work participation possible. Written for the scheme coordinator, the treating team and, where there is one, the employer, it gives the scheme a practical, revisitable picture of what work looks like around significant ongoing needs, and a basis for the next review.