Checkr Health Checks combine occupational health checks with drug screenings, allowing you to evaluate your candidates’ physical fitness for your job requirements. Drug and occupational health screenings can be ordered separately or together, depending on the customer's needs. 

This article will focus on Checkr Health occupational health screenings. For more information about drug screenings, visit: Checkr Health: Drug Screenings

This article will help you understand: 

• Overview
• Adding screenings to your account
• Screening process
• Reviewing report results
• Getting help
• Turnaround time
• Candidate experience
• Additional FAQs

Overview

Occupational health screenings allow companies to test their candidate’s ability to meet the physical requirements of a position, including vision tests, respirator fit tests, and tests for tuberculosis (TB) and other communicable diseases.

Checkr partners with eScreen to offer a wide variety of drug screening options. This partnership allows Checkr Health to provide candidates access to over 6,100 clinics across the country that provide both drug and occupational health screenings in a single location.

Some states have specific laws or guidelines relating to occupational health screenings in relation to employment. For example, most states require a conditional offer of employment be made before requiring candidates to submit to an occupational health check. Please work with your legal counsel to ensure that you are meeting these requirements.

Adding screenings to your account

To add occupational health screenings to your account, contact Checkr Customer Support. It will take  approximately 7-10 business days for Checkr to complete the account setup before you can order your first Checkr Health Check.

Screening process

Checkr Health Checks may be run as a standalone screening. Most Checkr Health Checks follow a standard screening workflow: 

1. Customers issue a screening invitation to the candidate, asking them to complete the screening.
2. Candidate completes the Checkr-Hosted Apply Flow, which allows them to select a screening location and receive their screening pass.
3. Candidate contacts the clinic to schedule their appointment and/or verify availability.
4. Candidate completes their appointment before the screening pass expires. 
5. If required, customers may update the clinic location on behalf of their candidate, or send them an updated screening pass from the pending report’s page in the Checkr Dashboard.
6. Once the service(s) is completed, the clinic will send results to eScreen. eScreen will perform administrative review on all occupational health services to ensure results are complete in their entirety. If results are missing required information, eScreen will follow up with the clinic for corrections.
7. Final results are then posted to the Checkr Dashboard to be reviewed by the customer.

Review report results

To view results, open the candidate’s report and click Health Screening. A more detailed screening report can also be viewed by downloading the “Health Screening PDF” from the Report information section of the candidates report.

Getting help

With so many parties involved in the end-to-end Checkr Health screening process, it may be confusing where to look for help when questions arise. 

Visit Checkr’s Drug and Occupational Health FAQs for answers to common questions. The Checkr Customer Support team can help answer general questions such as finding clinics near the candidate’s location or verifying the status of the report. 

Keep in mind that occupational health screenings take time. Checkr cannot expedite the report or change the outcome of a screening.

Turnaround time 

Once the candidate completes their screening appointment, the average turnaround time to receive the result is under 3 days. To prevent delays, work with your candidate to ensure:

• The candidate calls the clinic to verify availability.
• The candidate downloads their screening pass and brings it to their clinic appointments. The screening pass is required to complete the screening.
• The clinic cannot help generate lost or misplaced passes.

Candidate experience

Checkr's Occupational Health scheduling flow allows candidates to schedule one test for all required checks and access the candidate screening pass (or “passport”) within the same system.

First, candidates will receive a screening invitation from the customer. This invitation asks them to: 

1. Enter their information,
2. Consent to the test, and
3. Select a screening location from a system-provided list. 

After entering their information, candidates will be presented and asked to acknowledge receipt of applicable forms and notifications, including Summary of Your Rights Under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), an Acknowledgement and Authorization for Background Check, and other state and required disclosures as applicable.

Next, they will verify availability with the clinic and/or schedule their test(s) before the listed date at a lab of their choosing.

Candidates must then download and print their screening pass and report to the clinic to submit to their drug test.

If you've applied for a job and are looking for more information on your background check’s status or progress, please log into the Checkr Candidate Portal.

Additional FAQs

Can Checkr expedite the screening?

The candidate shared results, can Checkr upload them?

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