Inherent Requirements of the Job

Understanding the Inherent Requirements of Jobs for key roles within an organisation underpins an employer’s ability to proactively and effectively manage their workforce, and reduce the risk of injury and WorkCover claims.

Many organisations fail to truly understand the specific functional requirements of a role which means that employees can be ill-suited or incapable of performing all of their job demands. This results in poor performance, staff turnover, likely injury, and the cost of WorkCover claims. 

The Inherent Requirements of the Job (IROJ) represents the functional requirements of a role from a physical, psychosocial, cognitive, and environmental perspective. This allows employers to meet their legal obligations to monitor the health of their workers and implement strategies to support their workers when they know, or ought reasonably to have known, that workers can no longer meet the inherent requirements of their jobs.

Workshop Objectives & Key Outcomes

P2 Group is passionate about the strategic use of the Inherent Requirements of Job documentation throughout all aspects of employment. The IROJ workshop demonstrates the benefits of effective IROJ documentation, provides an understanding of key legislation, and outlines practical frameworks for implementing the inherent requirements processes.

Illustrative real-life case studies are used to assist with learning and understanding.

Attendees will learn how IROJ documentation works to effectively identify and improve the understanding of the demands of a role, and empowers organisations to:

• Employ the right people for the job by enhancing pre-employment practices
• Reduce WorkCover premiums by creating effective and sustainable return to work pathways and strategically managing cases
• Minimise the operational implications of injury management by efficiently returning workers to their pre-injury duties
• Effectively balance workplace demands with the capacity and experience of workers
• Strategically manage workers who are unable to meet the physical, cognitive and psychosocial demands of their role
• Analyse and improve workplace practices