Injury Prevention Specialist Program
Our industry-leading injury prevention program addresses challenges that HR, Operations and EHS face and creates improved profitability for each of our customers. Our hand-selected Injury Prevention Specialists (IPS) is dedicated to your site location and can provide services that address absences, productivity, quality, and injury and disability costs.
We consistently deliver annual 3-5x ROI by aligning our solutions with the real challenges site leaders face. We take the time to understand our customers’ initiatives and design tailored programs - supported by measurable metrics - that drive meaningful results.
Early Symptom Catch.
During daily floor rounds, one of our IPS’s noticed an employee rubbing their shoulder after stacking pallets. After a quick conversation, the employee admitted to "a little soreness." The IPS immediately brought them in for a Prevention Plus appointment, where stretching, soft tissue work, and body mechanics coaching helped resolve the issue, avoiding a potential injury report later on.
Coaching Better Lifting Techniques.
While observing at a busy distribution center, our IPS saw multiple workers lifting heavy boxes using poor body mechanics. They immediately paused the team for a quick coaching session, demonstrating a safer lift strategy customized to their workflow. Within days, supervisors reported improved lifting habits across the shift.
Ergonomic Risk Assessments.
An employee working at a seated assembly station complained of numbness in their legs. The IPS completed an Ergonomic Risk Assessment, evaluating their posture and setup and recommended a footrest and small chair adjustments, and worked with maintenance to reposition the worktable. These simple changes relieved symptoms and prevented a developing ergonomic injury.
Flex for Success Participation Boost.
After noticing low participation in pre-shift stretching, an IPS engaged the team by leading short, interactive Flex for Success warm-ups and offering quick mobility tips tailored to their jobs. Within two weeks, flex participation rose by 60%, and employees reported feeling "more awake and ready" at the start of shifts.
Physical Demand Analysis
Injury Prevention Built Around Your Workforce
GSC's Physical Demand Analyses (PDAs) objectively measure and document the essential functions and physical demands of each job, creating accurate, standardized, and defensible job data. Built on established job-analysis methodologies and designed to support ADA- and EEOC-aligned employment practices, our PDAs provide a reliable foundation for job-related hiring assessments, reasonable accommodations, return-to-work decisions, and injury prevention.
Integrated into the GSC Workforce Management System™, this information becomes centralized, searchable workforce intelligence—helping HR, EHS, Operations, and medical providers make consistent, informed, and defensible decisions.
BUILD THE FOUNDATION
PDA’s with GSC’s Workforce Management System
GSC’s PDA Workforce Management System transforms standardized Physical Demand Analysis data into actionable workforce intelligence, helping organizations make informed decisions about return-to-work, reasonable accommodations, modified duty, ergonomics, and workforce risk.
Built on the Fulcrum technology platform and powered by GSC’s job-analysis expertise and U.S. Department of Labor-based methodology, the system centralizes job-demand information across locations and enables teams to match employee restrictions with appropriate work. Ergonomic risk can be sorted by job, task, site, or enterprise for easy identification and prioritization of solutions.
By replacing disconnected reports and institutional knowledge with consistent, accessible data, it improves collaboration among HR, Safety, Operations, medical providers, and leadership. More than a documentation solution, GSC provides an objective and defensible methodology and remains a long-term partner in helping clients understand and apply their workforce data.
POWER PDA INTELLIGENCE
GSC’s platform goes beyond simply digitizing PDA forms. It was designed specifically for field-based job analysis, bringing together a proven foundation of physical-demand science, decades of GSC applied knowledge, and modern technology to capture and apply job-specific data with greater consistency, accuracy, and scale.
That means the quality of the PDA does not depend on how an individual analyst chooses to collect, interpret, or organize the data. The expertise is built into the system—creating a more consistent, standardized, accurate, and scalable approach across locations, analysts, and jobs.
The platform turns PDA data from a static report into usable workforce intelligence. AI enables users to quickly sort, query, and apply job-demand data for HR, EHS, medical, operations, ergonomics, hiring, and return-to-work decisions. Open API capabilities allow the data to integrate with existing systems and workflows.
The difference is simple: GSC doesn’t just digitize PDA data. We’ve embedded decades of expertise into a platform designed to make that expertise scalable.
Job Safety Analysis
Know the Job. Identify the Risk. Prioritize the Solution.
GSC On-Site Services helps organizations connect workplace hazards with actionable risk intelligence—moving beyond traditional safety documentation to identify exposures, prioritize risks, and drive meaningful workplace improvements.
We bring together experienced injury prevention professionals, proven job safety analysis methodology, and technology to create a connected source of safety intelligence across your workforce. This structured approach provides visibility into hazard frequency, severity, exposure, and recurring risks—helping EHS, Operations, Engineering, and leadership make smarter, more proactive decisions.
Experience + Methodology + Technology
GSC combines 40+ years of injury prevention experience, proven job analysis methodology, and technology to deliver Job Safety Analyses that go beyond traditional hazard documentation. Our Job Analysts observe work as it is actually performed, evaluating job tasks, workplace hazards, employee exposure, task frequency, potential severity, existing controls, ergonomic risks, and opportunities for improvement.
Using a standardized approach, GSC transforms these observations into structured, searchable job-risk data that can be analyzed across jobs, departments, and locations. This connected information helps organizations identify recurring hazards, recognize risk patterns, and gain visibility into exposures that may be difficult to uncover through individual JSA documents.
Through intelligent risk prioritization, GSC helps Safety, EHS, Operations, and leadership teams understand where frequency, severity, and exposure create the greatest concern—allowing them to focus resources where they can have the most impact. Instead of simply knowing how many JSAs have been completed, organizations can identify which risks deserve attention first.
Pre-Employment / Post-Offer Agility Testing
Hire Right. From The Start.
GSC’s job-specific agility testing helps employers hire right from the start by matching a candidate’s physical capabilities to the documented demands and essential functions of the job.
BUILD WORKFORCE READINESS
GSC’s Pre-Employment / Post-Offer Agility Testing evaluates a candidate’s physical capabilities against the documented demands and essential functions of the specific job. Built from a job-specific Physical Demand Analysis, testing criteria are objective, standardized, and validated to reflect the actual requirements of the position—not generic standards or assumptions.
By connecting testing directly to essential functions and job demands, GSC supports the ADA/EEOC principle that employment tests be job-related and consistent with business necessity. The same job-specific methodology can support post-injury, post-illness, and return-to-work fit-for-duty decisions, providing an objective comparison between an employee’s capabilities and the requirements of the job.
GSC supports the methodology, validation, and ongoing review as job demands evolve, with pass/fail results also evaluated against relevant NIOSH research.
GSC Workforce Management System
One Coordinated Approach to Injury Prevention and Workforce Solutions.
GSC transforms job demands, workplace hazards, and workforce information into connected, actionable intelligence—giving organizations a centralized resource to improve safety, support workforce decisions, reduce risk, and optimize performance.
We combine 40+ years of injury prevention expertise, proven job-analysis methodology, and advanced technology to connect Physical Demand Analyses, Job Safety Analyses, ergonomic risk information, essential job functions, and agility testing data in one searchable platform. With AI-assisted insights, risk identification, trend analysis, and real-time access to job information, GSC empowers HR, EHS, Operations, Occupational Health, and leadership teams to make faster, more informed, and defensible workforce decisions.
More Than a Database. A Smarter Investment in Your Workforce.
The GSC Workforce Management System™ transforms disconnected job information into actionable workforce intelligence—helping organizations reduce costs, minimize risk, improve productivity, and make smarter workforce decisions. By connecting physical job demands, safety hazards, ergonomic risks, essential functions, and agility testing data, the system creates one reliable source of information across your organization.
With AI-assisted insights, intelligent risk identification, and searchable job data, teams can make faster, more informed decisions about hiring, injury prevention, return-to-work, reasonable accommodation, and operational improvements. This connected approach helps reduce administrative time, identify costly risks earlier, support defensible decisions, and focus resources where they can deliver the greatest impact.
Rather than investing in disconnected initiatives, organizations can leverage the same job intelligence across HR, EHS, Operations, Occupational Health, and leadership—maximizing the value of their workforce investments while supporting safer, more efficient operations.
One Connected System. Multiple Workforce Solutions. Greater Business Value.
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