Simwork Systems provides human performance assessment systems that provide state of the art computer-interactive criterion based measurement tools used in a variety of settings. Our tools are used in industry, the military, sports training, the courts, vocational rehabilitation, physical/occupational therapy and personnel placement throughout the world. Our unique ability to administer human performance test routines in an unlimited number of languages makes our assessment systems world products.
Our mission
The ever-changing health care and workers' compensation market and the introduction of ADA have made it difficult, at best, for employers to do what is right and necessary. Simwork System's experience in these areas, and the far-reaching vision of the ERGOS® Work Simulator, ERGOS® Sapphire™ Work Assessment Systems and other products help provide a level playing field for employers and workers, creating a true partnership for return-to-work programs. It is Simwork Systems’ mission to provide the best human performance assessment tools possible. Simwork Systems is not in the business of selling a FCE method or philosophy. Instead, we provide the best tools possible to objectively measure the evaluee’s work capacity.
What we provide
Simwork computer-interactive products provide unique features often copied, but never fully reproduced. Our pioneering designs document the functional ability of the evaluee in detail reports documenting work performance using real-time recordings, criterion based MTM comparison of specific work function and consistency of effort through coefficient of variation (CV) calculation. Since 1986, the principals at Simwork Systems have provided unique job-specific work capacity testing tools that directly compare the evaluee to over 21,000 job standards defined by the U.S. Department of Labor. Likewise, we are able to compare the evaluee’s work performance to specific jobs analyzed using the U.S. Department of Labor’s The Revised Handbook for Analyzing Jobs. Simwork Systems also provides exclusive use and training on the ADA Management System (ADAMS), the first human factors job analysis system designed for use under American's with Disability Act (ADA).
The products and services provided by Simwork System include the best computer-interactive human performance analysis and testing tools on the market today. Our cost effective solutions and training continues to make Simwork Systems the leader in human performance testing.
How we are different
Other FCE vendors believe that their methods which utilize low cost common therapy equipment, such as treadmills, a box of bricks and a stop watch, produce objective, accurate and defendable results. These systems are far from being as truly objective as they claim since a small or unintentional error in the evaluator’s measurement will lead to the difference between a court defendable evaluation and a successful lawsuit dismissing the evaluator’s conclusions. To mitigate this potential loss, these methods often rely upon hedging and giving the evaluee being tested “the benefit of the doubt” rather than producing a truly accurate and objective measure of their functional ability. In addition, the potential for the evaluator to be heavily influenced by a properly coached evaluee makes these manual systems significantly unreliable. This hedging and manipulation of the testing method can result in inequitable decisions.
The Simwork assessment system reliably provides standardized, defendable, objective and repeatable human performance tests that measure what the evaluee can physically perform. If you’re looking to put your name on a work capacity/FCE evaluation and know that you’re providing the most accurate measure of the evaluee’s abilities, you need our system. The founders of Simwork Systems developed the first fully objective and standardized computer-interactive work capacity/FCE system in 1986 and we are, by far, the world’s most experienced experts in the development of standardized criterion based work capacity/FCE system design.