In our society, everyone has the right and duty to work to the best of their ability. When people are affected by illness, accident or work disability, however, extra attention is often needed to regain the balance between work load and work ability. What can someone cope with? What is his processing capacity? What are the obstacles and limitations? But also: how heavy is the work actually? Can tasks and functions perhaps be adjusted if someone's work capacity is (temporarily) less? And what are then the consequences for contract or benefits? Labor experts play a key role in finding answers to these questions!

Before we can answer the questions, it is important that we know what constitutes a Occupational Assessor Does. One Occupational Assessor:

• is a specialist in people, work and income;
• Weighs load and load capacity of man in work;
• Supports disability prevention and recovery;
• actively looks at opportunities in work and a person's ability to work.

Employment experts therefore act in the domain of people, work and income. They know the functioning of individual people in an occupation and find out on the shop floor exactly what workload there is and have insight into limitations and stagnation phenomena.

Automation

Where the Occupational Assessor In the past, you used to go to a study with pen and paper, but this has now changed to adding photos to reports and applications where the weighing is partly automated.

Now the question is, can a Occupational Assessor be replaced by the computer? You would initially say 'why not'. A lot of information is already available digitally, such as information about laws and regulations and the workload in the workplace. A weighting between load and load capacity can therefore theoretically be made automatically.

But.

However, it can never be the case that the computer does not do the work of a Occupational Assessor But why not?

A computer can:

• not go to a company to see what the specific load in labor looks like;
• What workload an employee is really dealing with;
• and most importantly, a computer does not have the soft skills and "feelers" to be able to unravel underlying (work) problems during conversations, for example.

So the conclusion is no, a Occupational Assessor cannot be replaced by a computer.

Computer as assistant

However, the computer can do the Occupational Assessor assist in carrying out his/her work as it is currently also in the Occupational Assessor from Puls Happens. Puls is a frontrunner when it comes to the integration of "the computer" into our profession. For example, we work with Scheduling Calendar and let the computer work for us as an assistant. As Labour Experts, we have even more time to devote attention to, for example, investigating the specific burden in labour, discussions with employer and employee and providing truly sustainable and, above all, appropriate advice.

Join the Labour Party Puls!

Do you want to Occupational Assessor Would you like to pay more attention to researching the specific workload in labour, the conversations with employer and employee and become even more proficient in your soft skills? Puls is always looking for energetic and talented new colleagues. Take a look at our vacancies and apply!