Pre-employment screening is not primarily to protect the employer from errors through incapacity or sickness, nor is it to prevent other than the young and healthy being accepted into the company pension scheme.

It is increasingly about trying to fit the person into the workplace and to minimise the health hazards to him.

It is also about protecting his fellow worker and indirectly the public who may purchase and use the product.

Pre-employment screening can be used positively, to discriminate and to find employment safely for disabled men and women.