The ERGOS® Sapphire™ Work Assessment System

Since the 1980’s, work function assessment technology has slowly grown from simple load cell recording devices to comprehensive computer integrated testing systems. Research conducted by Simwork Systems, Inc. and its partners in the United States, Canada and Europe has produced a new generation assessment tool. That tool is the ERGOS® Sapphire™ Work Assessment System. The ERGOS® Sapphire™ is available in three versions, a comprehensive Wall Mount version, a Portable work assessment version, and an Portable Upper Extremity Testing version. The ERGOS® Sapphire™ Wall Mount and Portable versions use less than 25 square feet of floor space and measures 15 work demands defined by the U.S. and Canadian Departments of Labor. These include dynamic lift strength, carrying strength, static lift, push and pull strength, standing, walking, forward and overhead reach, stooping, kneeling and crouching work positions, handling and fingering hand functions. As a bonus, the ERGOS® Sapphire™ measures functional finger pinch and hand grip strength, as well as wrist flexion and extension strength and forearm pronation and supination strength. The assessment protocols are operated by a single touch screen computer. The assessment routines incorporated in the system were developed over a 20 year period by principals at Simwork Systems for the ERGOS® system. Input from Canadian, European and American researchers has resulted in this new work function assessment tool. The core of the ERGOS® Sapphire™ technology is a patent pending work simulation “smart device” design available exclusively to Simwork Systems and its partners. Smart device components operate using their own internal microprocessor. This allows each test device to operate with any standard Windows computer. Each smart device can be used by itself or as part of an comprehensive integrated assessment system.

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Features and Benefits

► The ERGOS® Sapphire™ produces fast assessment and treatment income in the workers’ compensation, employment testing medical/legal and treatment markets. The system’s easy to use protocol and set-up enables the user to start testing in minutes.

► Routines are customizable to meet each market and treatment requirement.

► Assessment and test routines are fast, easy to understand and use “informed consent” documentation to assure all tests are reproducible, objective, safe and defendable. Test protocols include standardized ERGOS® routines used for over 20 years.

► The portable components can be set up in less than 10 minutes for upper extremity testing and less than 30 minutes for comprehensive assessment saving time and enhancing mobility.

► ERGOS® Sapphire™ protocols can be set up for FCE/FCA routines, Pre-employment/ADA testing, work conditioning and hardening, as well as treatment tracking measurement with a few clicks of a mouse.

► Assessment instruction sets can be changed from one language to another in a manner of seconds. There are no limitations to the number of administration languages the system can use.