How is the new Generic Task Statement supposed to be used by CFMS personnel?
Let’s start by saying how it should not be used. The new Generic Task Statement is not a checklist. It is not a form to be completed and signed by the member and the MO (or any other CFMS personnel involved in medically assessing CF members). The new Generic Task Statement should be used as a tool, as a series of guidelines that allow the MO to better describe the employment limitations that need to be assigned. If these limitations can be worded by using the factors described in the new Generic Task Statement, this is what should be done. If these limitations cannot be described using the new Generic Task Statement, then any other appropriate wording should be used. This will usually happen when the limitations are specific to one environment (for example, inability to work on a ship because of severe seasickness) or to one MOC. Of course, such limitations will usually not transgress the Universality of Service principle.
