Polarisk · Assessment
What a physician-signed Polarisk Assessment includes
A Polarisk Assessment is a scoped, fixed-fee psychosocial risk assessment, read and signed by a registered occupational health doctor. It is a defined piece of work with a fixed fee agreed up front; there is no subscription.
Polarisk module: psychosocial risk. The wider platform runs statutory health surveillance.
The deliverable
What you get
It measures where psychosocial risk sits in your organisation, maps it to ISO 45003 and your local duty, and gives you a prioritised plan you can act on and evidence.
- A validated surveyRun at work-unit level, with results reported only where the group is large enough to protect anonymity. No individual scores are produced at any point.
- A risk mapWhich areas and which work units are carrying psychosocial risk, and how serious it is.
- A prioritised action planWhat to address first, and what good control looks like for each gap, separating what fixes the work from what supports the individual.
- A signed written reportRead and signed by a registered occupational health doctor, in a form you can put in front of your board or your regulator.
- A route to reassessA shorter pulse on the same instrument, so movement is measured on a comparable basis rather than against a differently worded survey.
Where it helps, the assessment can be planned alongside your wider occupational health activity, so you run one coherent programme rather than a separate survey exercise.
Why the signature
What the physician sign-off adds
A survey tells you which work units are carrying risk. It does not, on its own, tell you why, how serious it is for the health of your staff, or what to prioritise. That reading is where a doctor matters.
- A clinical readingThe pattern is read the way a clinician reads a result and translated into risk to health, rather than left as a survey number.
- A named, accountable sign-offIf your board or your regulator asks, the report carries the judgment of a named, registered doctor. That is a stronger position than a report signed by a platform or by an assessor alone.
- It connects to the rest of your occupational healthPsychosocial risk sits next to health surveillance, absence and fitness for work, and a clinician can join those up.
The process
How it works
Scope
A short call to agree your work units, headcount and jurisdiction, and a fixed fee for the work.
Confidential survey
Staff complete a validated survey. Results are aggregated, and no figure is published for a group below five responses, against the group sizes your organisation declares.
Clinical reading
A registered occupational health doctor reads the results and interprets the pattern against ISO 45003 and the HSE Management Standards.
Report and plan
You receive a signed report and a prioritised action plan, typically within 30 days of the survey closing.
Reassess
An optional cycle to check whether the controls actually moved the risk, on the same instrument so the comparison holds.
Commercials and fit
Pricing, and when this is the right choice
Fixed fee, quoted per organisation. Scoped to your headcount, the number of work units and your jurisdiction, so you know the full cost before you commit. It is a deliverable, not a per-seat subscription.
We will be straight with you about fit. If you only need a compliant survey run to a deadline, a software-only tool may be the quicker route for that narrow job.
Privacy
The assessment is built around anonymity. Results are reported at work-unit level only, never as individual scores, and only where the group is large enough to protect identity. No figure is published for a group below five, and complementary suppression prevents a small group being recovered by subtraction. Data is handled under a written agreement with a defined retention period. See the privacy notice.
Questions
Common questions
How small can a work unit be before results are hidden?
Five. No figure is published for a group of fewer than five people, and where suppressing one group would still allow it to be recovered by subtracting the others from the total, further groups are suppressed until it cannot be. Only one breakdown is published per cycle, chosen before any response arrives.
How long does an assessment take?
The survey window is typically two to three weeks, and the signed report follows within about 30 days of it closing. The scoping call comes first and is short. The longest variable is usually how quickly your own communications reach staff, which is the one part we cannot do for you.
Do we need this if we already run an engagement survey?
They answer different questions. An engagement survey measures how people feel about the organisation. A psychosocial risk assessment examines the conditions of the work against a recognised framework and produces a risk assessment a clinician has signed. If you need to evidence that you assessed psychosocial risk, an engagement score will not do it.
Can we run this alongside statutory health surveillance?
Yes, and on the same platform, so a worker is not asked to deal with two unrelated systems. For exposure-heavy employers the usual order is statutory surveillance first, because it is non-discretionary, then psychosocial once the compliance position is stable.
Next step
Ready, or want to check first?
Book a scoping call, or take the two-minute readiness check to see where you stand before you decide.