Pre-Employment Polygraph Screening
- Purpose: Often used by law enforcement agencies or sensitive industries to screen potential employees.
- Focus Areas: History of criminal activity, drug use, and honesty in job application information.
Periodic or Random Polygraph Screening
- Purpose: Conducted periodically to ensure ongoing honesty and integrity among employees, especially in security-sensitive fields.
- Focus Areas: Recent activities, such as theft, unauthorized access, or misconduct.
Specific Incident Polygraph Screening
- Purpose: Used to investigate a specific event or accusation, such as theft, fraud, or infidelity.
- Focus Areas: Direct questions related to the incident being investigated.
This includes:
Employee Polygraph Testing (EPTA)
- Purpose: Used to resolve specific incidents in the workplace, often for theft, fraud, or misconduct investigations.
- Focus Areas: Employee’s involvement in workplace misconduct or criminal activities.
Domestic Relationship Polygraph (Infidelity Testing)
- Purpose: Common in personal relationships where one partner suspects the other of infidelity or dishonesty.
- Focus Areas: Infidelity, dishonesty in the relationship, or other specific issues.
Insurance Fraud Investigation
- Purpose: Used by insurance companies to investigate potential fraudulent claims.
- Focus Areas: Truthfulness in claims, accidental versus deliberate damages, or injury exaggerations.
Each type of polygraph test is designed to address a specific context, allowing the examiner to tailor questions to the relevant issues.
