Westmoreland County is a border county for the Pittsburgh metropolitan area with a population of about 350,000. Nearby counties include Allegheny, Armstrong, Butler, Cambria, Fayette, Indiana, Somerset, and Washington. Large employers in the area include Excela Health, UPS, and the Elliott Group.

A central hub for coal mining a century ago, Westmoreland County today maintains an economy driven primarily by healthcare, manufacturing, and the service industry. Despite a slow decline in population over the last few decades, the presence of healthcare business offices and the county’s proximity to Pittsburgh means employers can still tap into a broad labor pool. However, these conditions also make it more critical for companies to carefully consider whom they wish to hire and who will be most suitable for the position.

Knowing who you’re about to hire is essential, and that knowledge should comprise more than just where they went to school and what their last three jobs were. While the information you learn from a job interview or a cover letter is essential to determine suitability, they don’t tell you much helpful about safety. With background checks, however, you can move towards developing a sense of confidence in the trustworthiness of any job applicant. Though pre-employment vetting is not a means of determining with certainty who will or won’t be a risk in the future, background checks can raise red flags that necessitate closer scrutiny.

Businesses that need to hire quickly don’t need to worry about slowing down their efforts to staff up with background checks. With the digital services available today, reliable and detailed background checks can be yours in seconds. With the correct information from your applicant, you can begin reviewing their history as part of your considerations. You may find no evidence of past crimes, or you could discover concerning information about a past conviction—or even a currently pending case. With tools from backgroundchecks.com that let you review these and other county-level court records, you can better understand these facts and evaluate their impact. 

Before ordering any reports, your business must be sure it has shielded itself from legal liability and equipped itself with a process for legally using background checks. While Pennsylvania has no statewide “ban the box” or fair chance laws, employers must still abide by federal legislation and guidelines when using background checks. Applicants must give written consent to the check after being provided with a standalone disclosure of your intent to use background checks. If you deny someone based on a background check, you must provide them with the report, a statement of rights, and sufficient time to respond.

Once a compliant procedure is ready, you can start ordering reports for instant results today. Begin with a broad point of view provided by the US OneSEARCH from backgroundchecks.com. This nationwide database contains millions of entries, including records from Westmoreland County. Visit our coverage map for information on all our data sources in Pennsylvania and elsewhere. You can conveniently make county record requests when you need to drill down on information in local courts.

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Safely and thoroughly vet potential new hires today with all the information you can find through backgroundchecks.com.