About
Occupational health, rebuilt as software
Over ten million UK workers cannot get occupational health at all. The providers are too few, built for large employers, and priced past everyone else, while the legal duty and the forty-year records stay exactly where they were. Polarisk exists to close that gap by automating the routine and keeping a named, registered clinician on every judgment.
The clinician stays; the paperwork around them goes.
The thesis
Clinician hours are the constraint
Occupational health is not scarce because the assessments are hard. It is scarce because each one consumes time from a shrinking pool of registered clinicians, and most of that time is not clinical: scheduling, chasing, transcribing, filing, and rebuilding evidence months later for an audit.
Remove that work and the same clinician covers several times the population. That is the whole company, and also the limit of what we claim.
How we work
Four commitments
Accountability is the product
A logo is a weak answer when a regulator asks who stands behind a finding. A named, registered clinician is a strong one. Everything else exists to make that signature cheap enough to be universal.
Confidentiality you can check
We publish the rules: no figure for a group below five, employer logins stopped at the clinical record, every reader named on it.
Custody is evidenced, not claimed
Where a boundary rests on who holds a credential, no amount of role-checking changes that. We record who issued what and flag unverified accounts, rather than claiming a prevention we do not have.
We publish what is unfinished
The security page lists what we do not hold, including certifications and an independent review. A buyer who finds the gaps listed by us can trust the rest.
Who is behind it
Founder and clinical method
Dr Kirath Sidhu is an occupational health physician and the founder of Polarisk. He leads the clinical method: the protocols each programme is triaged against, the escalation rules, and the standard every judgment is measured by.
He is registered in Malaysia, and is not the signatory for UK assessments. Signing in a jurisdiction where you are not registered is unlawful. UK reports are signed by a clinician registered here, whose registration is recorded on the platform and quoted on the certificate.
The line
What Polarisk will not claim
- The software does not diagnose or certifyIt schedules, screens, triages and drafts. A clinician decides and signs.
- A pilot is not productionWe will not describe pilot findings as proven outcomes, or a built feature as a delivered result.
- No registration anyone does not holdRoles, registers and grades stated exactly, per jurisdiction, on every report.
- No certification we do not haveWe are not ISO 27001 or SOC 2 certified. The controls are implemented and tested, not third-party audited.
- No promise the software cannot enforceOur worker consent screen once said the employer would "never" see the answers. It could not be guaranteed on every route, so it was rewritten to what is true.
Questions
Common questions
Who actually signs a Polarisk report?
A clinician registered in the jurisdiction where the report is issued, named on the record with their register and registration number. In the UK that means the GMC, NMC or HCPC. For noise, vibration, respiratory and skin surveillance the signatory may lawfully be an occupational health nurse or another qualified OH professional; streams requiring an HSE Appointed Doctor are out of scope.
How big is Polarisk?
Deliberately narrow. Polarisk runs statutory health surveillance and psychosocial risk assessment for UK employers, and does not attempt to be a full-service occupational health provider. Engagements begin with a scoped pilot at one site rather than a broad rollout, because that is the sequence that produces a defensible audit position rather than a large invoice.
Are you an occupational health provider or a software company?
Both, and the split is deliberate. Polarisk provides the platform that runs the programme, and the clinical judgment is provided by registered clinicians who sign in their own name and act as independent controllers of the clinical record. That structure exists because it is the one a regulator and a court expect to find, not because it is convenient.
Can you work outside the UK?
The product is built UK-first, because the statutory framework it automates is UK law. The same model applies elsewhere with the local regulations and the local register substituted, and any report is signed by a clinician registered in that jurisdiction. Talk to us about a specific country rather than assuming either way.
Next step
See where your organisation stands
The surveillance check estimates what your workforce is owed each year, by programme, in about two minutes. No sign-up, no personal data.