Health Risk Assessment

Health Risk Assessment: Helping Quantify Employee Health help you quantify worker health

An Health Risk Assessment Health Risk Assessments (HRAs) is an important tool to help you isolate the  value of strong Company Health and Wellness Program Programs.

Health Risk Assessment: What is it?

Does the term “Health Risk Assessment” have you puzzled? If so, then you are not alone.  Unfortunately  there is no standard definition or format for a Health Risk Assessment. A health risk assessment is  both a procedure and a document, too, depending on the context — you must answer questions and ideally  undergo some simple Employee Health Screening to develop a document that describes what’s good and bad  about your current state of health.

To add confusion to the situation, there’s a field called health risk management. Talk to an OSHA  inspector about health risk assessment and they will likely assume you’re referring to an analysis of  contaminants and industrial chemicals in a factory or manufacturing facility.

Health Risk Assessment: The Typical Health Risk Assessment

A comprehensive health risk assessment is aimed at producing a concrete baseline of a person’s health,  and includes most of these features:

blood pressure check,
testing for cancer,
blood sugar test, and
a analysis of the worker’s health status.

Health Risk Assessments (HRAs) would assess the worker’s:

lifestyle factors,
medical conditions,
prescriptions,
functional concerns and abilities,
life quality,
self-efficacy,
fitness level.