What Is the ORA?

Organizational Risk Assessment (ORA)

Serves to structure and to guide organizations efforts to change the environments and make the worksite more heath-promoting.

Helps leadership increase wellness at work and creates a healthier, more productive culture at the workplace.
 The ORA is built on the “Altered Worksite Settings” or Environmental approach to Worksite Wellness. The Environmental approach promotes employee wellness by altering worksite settings for all employees alike independent of health risk factors.

The ORA uses various methods and mechanisms to assist in reducing employee health risk factors including unhealthy diet, physical inactivity, unmitigated stress, tobacco addiction, alcohol abuse, and depression.

The ORA links an environmental health risk assessment to environment-level health risk-reduction programming employing worksite and building asset screening and asset-improvement coaching as the platform for delivering altered worksite settings.

The ORA has three surveys that are conducted to determine the following information:

Survey 1– The worksite’s policy, education, and the neighborhood environments are assessed for healthiness.

Survey 2– Conducted to collect and report how top managers at this worksite perceive wellness priorities, wellness strategy, readiness for wellness, wellness on the agenda, and wellness culture at the worksite.

Survey 3– Assesses employees’ perceptions of health status, work and family, supervision, safety, discrimination, work culture, and job satisfaction.  It also tells management how employees feel about their work and their workplace. 

Scorecards are produced for each survey once all three surveys have been completed using patented analytics to determine the healthiness within your organizations environment including the worksite, leadership team, and employees.  Please see the individual survey pages for examples of scorecards.

Recommendations are then made by HSS staff and presented to the client. Recommendations reflect prioritization to augment facets of work environments, leadership and health culture.