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Explainer · Workforce Health Risk Analytics

What is workforce health analytics?

In short

Workforce health analytics is the practice of measuring, combining and interpreting data about employee health and workplace risk so that organisations can make evidence-based decisions, rather than relying on absence figures or intuition alone.

Read the full article: From workforce health analytics to health risk intelligence

Bringing separate signals together

Traditional approaches to workforce health tend to look at one thing at a time: sickness absence, an occupational health referral, an insurance claim. Workforce health analytics brings these signals together, alongside physical, psychological and workplace-factor data, to build a fuller picture of where risk actually sits in an organisation.

From reacting to anticipating

Done well, it moves a business from reacting to problems after they show up in absence statistics, to identifying and addressing risk before it becomes a cost, in productivity, in claims, or in people leaving the organisation.

The assessment gapA left column listing what employers assess today, the presenting symptom, set against a right column listing what is not assessed: underlying cause, contributory risk, days lost, claims paid, and what intervention is most appropriate, if any.ASSESSED TODAYPresenting symptomDiagnosis recordedNOT ASSESSEDUnderlying causeContributory personal riskContributory occupational riskDays lostClaims paidWhat intervention is most appropriate, if any

What is assessed today, and what is not. ORIGIN works on the right hand column.

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