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Reading survey results

Once a survey clears the five-response floor, its Dashboard tab shows your read on psychosocial risk: a headline score, a risk profile by work factor, the protective factors that buffer harm, and an estimate of your exposure.

Written by Taylor Laing

Results appear once five responses are in: The analytics on the Dashboard are gated by the five-response floor, per group. Until a group clears it, its scores stay hidden. See Anonymous and identified responses.

The dashboard

Open a sent survey from the Surveys list; the Dashboard tab is the default. It surfaces:

  • Completion progress: completed, in progress, and not-started counts

  • A headline Psychosocial Risk Score, from 0 to 10, with a risk band (for example "High Risk")

  • The Risk Profile: the 17 psychosocial hazards ranked by severity, each with its change since the last survey and an acceptable threshold

  • Protective Factors: ranked weakest to strongest

  • Estimated Exposure: a directional annual dollar estimate of psychosocial harm

  • Trend vs the previous survey (improving, stable, or worsening)

Risk Profile: the harm side

The Risk Profile ranks the 17 psychosocial hazards that drive harm, most severe at the top; those are where action is most needed.

For each hazard:

  • A bar shows the current score

  • Coloured bands indicate the severity

  • A delta shows the change since the previous survey (for example "+0.6" or "−0.5")

You can expand the list ("Show all 17 hazards") to see every hazard, not just the top few.

Protective Factors: the protection side

Alongside the Risk Profile, the Protective Factors panel ranks the factors that buffer your people against psychosocial harm, from weakest to strongest; so the items at the top are the protections most in need of investment.

Each factor shows its current score, its change since the last survey, and an acceptable-threshold marker.

Together the two panels give you the full picture: where harm is concentrating (Risk Profile) and where your protection is weakest (Protective Factors).

17 hazards here, 12 Work Factors on the org dashboard: The survey Dashboard ranks 17 psychosocial hazards. The organisation dashboard's Psychosocial tab is a different, higher-level surface that groups risk into 12 Work Factors. For the underlying model, see Understanding psychosocial hazard categories.

Estimated exposure and trend

  • Estimated Exposure is an annualised dollar estimate of the cost of psychosocial harm across your organisation, shown on the Dashboard as a dollar figure labelled "Annual cost across all hazards". Treat it as a directional figure for governance reporting, not a precise actuarial number. It draws on a salary model in your company settings (average annual salary, standard working hours); if those are unset, the estimate will be off.

  • Trend compares this survey to the previous one (Improving, Stable, or Worsening) and shows the average risk delta (for example "−0.3 avg risk").

The other tabs

Beyond the Dashboard, the survey detail page has:

  • Risks and Controls: links this survey's results through to your risk register and controls

  • Actions: action items raised from the survey's findings, with status and assignee; the ⋮ menu's Create Task also turns a finding into a task

  • Questions: the question set used, with response distributions

Segmentation

Results can be filtered by group, department, business unit, location, or custom segment. Any segment below the five-response floor stays hidden to protect individual privacy.

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