“[JELD-WEN] contracts with Insight Worldwide to provide pre-hire integrity testing, which is intended to screen out job candidates likely to exhibit undesirable behavior, such as theft, workers’ compensation fraud, violence or deception in the workplace. … The integrity testing alone results in hiring cautions for 22 percent of the firm’s job applicants. And the company has seen how accurate the hiring cautions are. “When we go against the recommendation,” said Woody Sine, JELD-WEN’s director of risk management technology services, “when there’s a caution issued and we hire anyway, those people don’t stay hired.”
This rigorous pre-hire process eliminates about half of all job applicants from consideration. This level of scrutiny may seem excessive to some. And Beegle acknowledges that in a tight economy, the team has had to question whether the results justify the cost of such diligence. So far, the answer is still yes. New hires once accounted for at least 40 percent of JELD-WEN’s workers’ comp injury claims in a year. Today, that number is 12.3 percent.”
Excerpt from the November 2011 edition of Risk & Insurance Magazine article: Opening the Door to Risk Reduction, by Michelle Kerr. To read the article in its entirety go to:
www.riskandinsurance.com/story.jsp?storyId=533342677
JELD-WEN is a worldwide manufacturer of doors and windows.
