Don’t Let Risk Slip Through Onboarding: How DataFit Goes Beyond Hiring to Keep Your Workforce Safe

Workplace injuries don’t just hurt employees — they hurt your bottom line. With U.S. employers spending over $167 billion annually on workplace injuries, and musculoskeletal disorders accounting for more than 30% of lost-time claims, the stakes have never been higher. Even more alarming: 40% of injuries happen within a worker’s first year. Often, these injuries occur because employees aren’t matched to roles that fit their physical abilities or aren’t fully prepared for the job’s demands.

Traditional post-offer employment testing (POET) can help reduce early injuries, but it only answers one question:

“Is this worker safe to start today?”

What it doesn’t do is track how risk evolves over time.

Enter DataFit Insight360, a next-generation solution that protects workers from Day 1 and every day after. It combines LiftSmart Physical Capabilities Assessment (PCA) with the LiftSmart Functional Abilities Screen (FAS) to create a continuous workforce readiness and risk-monitoring program. PCA is conducted after a conditional job offer but before Day 1 to ensure candidates can safely perform essential job functions, reducing early injuries and turnover. Once employees are on the job, FAS provides baseline, quarterly, and annual assessments to monitor strength, mobility, movement quality, and fatigue, catching emerging risks before they become costly injuries. Together, these tools form a full-spectrum safety strategy that goes far beyond what a traditional POET alone can do.

What makes Insight360 so powerful is the way PCA and FAS work together. PCA establishes a Day 1 baseline, and FAS measures changes over time. This creates a continuous safety loop, allowing employers to identify high-risk workers, provide targeted training or ergonomic coaching, and make faster, safer return-to-work decisions when injuries occur. Unlike one-time testing, Insight360 lets companies see trends, respond proactively, and make objective, legally defensible decisions, a crucial advantage in industries where sometimes hiring every applicant is non-negotiable, such as logistics, warehousing, manufacturing, and construction.

By standardizing baseline data and monitoring employees continuously, Insight360 doesn’t just reduce front-end risk, it reduces long-term costs and claim frequency. Pre-injury data, functional benchmarks, and movement trends make injury prevention, treatment, and return-to-work planning more precise, efficient, and effective. In short, PCA protects Day 1, and FAS protects every day after, forming a dual-layer defense that keeps workers safe, employers protected, and operations running smoothly.

With DataFit Insight360, companies get a proactive, technology-driven approach to workforce health and safety, turning risk management from a reactive expense into a strategic advantage.