Built with Keele University

Welcome to Bessie

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Bessie is a cutting-edge platform designed to help you assess and manage psychosocial risk, accurately. Built on academic research and evidence in partnership with Keele University, Bessie identifies, measures and analyses psychosocial hazards, risk, and likelihood of harm in the workplace — allowing businesses to make better informed decisions as well as satisfying compliance standards.

Because being human operating within the workplace still requires us to bring the whole human, we recognised that separating ourselves into parts does not adequately measure risk. What impacts us at work might very well have its origins elsewhere. Measuring work alone protects neither the business, nor the person.

Bessie therefore takes data points around stress and psychosocial risk across a broad spectrum of human experience, ensuring we see a fuller picture of what might already be under pressure — allowing workplaces to create frameworks, systems and processes in which people can function and work safely, without causing psychological harm.

Bessie works across: Work Social Health Relational Personal — 120+ factors, and counting
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All About Bessie

Discover how Bessie transforms raw data into actionable organisational insights.

What Bessie Is

Bessie identifies hazards in the workplace, shows the likelihood of harm if certain conditions are met, along with the percentage of the workforce meeting each risk category of low, medium, high and very high.

Bessie also considers demands outside the workplace, including health, familial and social relationships, and personal factors — acknowledging that clean boundaries aren't always possible between inside and outside of work.

Bessie is your prevention strategy, your wellbeing strategy, and your impact measurement strategy — in one place.

How Bessie Helps

Bessie translates complex data into clear actionable insights, helping businesses to identify hazards, prevent psychological harm, and personalise intervention according to your own business's unique risk profile.

Bessie provides assurance for Health and Safety leaders, HR managers, CEOs and Boards that risk is managed well, recorded appropriately, and reduced accordingly.

Bessie is the intelligence engine that simplifies otherwise complex data, produces reports, and builds KPIs that measure change.

The Bessie Process

Every factor on your dashboard can be explored in full — not just scored. Click through and see exactly what's being measured and why it matters, whenever you need to come back to it.

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Onboarding & Induction

Fully supported for both the leadership team and employees, ensuring everyone starts with confidence and clarity.

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Survey

Opens and closes on agreed dates, usually running for around 7 days, giving employees sufficient time to respond thoughtfully.

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Leadership Feedback & Questions

Leadership sees and understands the results first, with dedicated time to ask questions before any wider communication.

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Full Written Report

A comprehensive written report covering all findings, risk categories, and context — ready for board-level review or HR planning.

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Employee Feedback

The workforce receives their own briefing — not just leadership. Employees understand risk and can ask questions too.

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Dashboard Release

Dashboards are released to both employees and leadership only once everyone understands what they're looking at.

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KPIs

Bespoke Key Performance Indicators are built inside your dashboard to measure meaningful change over time.

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Risk Register

Your risk register is built into your dashboards — always live, always current, always linked to your data.

What Bessie Measures

Built from academic and clinical research across Neuroscience, Biology, Psychology, Sociology, Physics, and Medicine — in partnership with Keele University — Bessie's unique algorithm establishes what hazards exist within your organisation and how your workforce is interacting with those hazards. Only then can harm, likelihood of harm, vulnerability and protective factors be established confidently.

Bessie measures all domains: personal, social, health, and relationships, as well as work. Taking a holistic view across the whole workforce allows you to understand more deeply how the constantly changing world outside of work is impacting people inside of work.

Aligned with ISO 45001, ISO 45003 & the HSE Management Standards

Bessie's dashboards cover all six HSE Management Standards — Demands, Control, Support, Relationships, Role, and Change — plus Culture as a seventh, included as standard. They also map directly onto all three of ISO 45003's psychosocial risk categories: how work is organised, social factors at work, and the physical work environment.

ISO 45001's own 2027 revision is expected to make psychosocial risk an explicit, core requirement. Bessie was built to answer both standards — and to go further than either requires.

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Stress Load

Stress Load — also known as Allostatic Load — describes the way body and mind respond under sustained pressure. Bessie surfaces the factors contributing to stress load across your workforce, highlights what is and isn't within the control of the business, and shows how load is distributed across teams.

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Presenteeism

Presenteeism — being present but with reduced capacity — is the most common outcome of stress and psychosocial harm. It lowers productivity, increases sickness absence risk, adds pressure on colleagues, and unbalances workloads. Bessie gives a clear picture of if and how presenteeism is affecting your people and organisation.

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Prevent Burnout

Enabling you to spot the signs of burnout early, Bessie's reporting allows you to understand how to respond before catastrophe hits — identifying where work and job redesign is needed, and how recruitment might be impacted.

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Bespoke Dashboard Reporting

Organisational complexity is made simple. Dynamics such as hybrid working, geographical location, multi-disciplinary teams, contractors, and supply chains can be managed in a way that works for you and reported on accordingly.

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Risk Register

Your risk register is built inside your dashboards. The compare results and compare teams features allow you to track results over time, making change easily visible. All employees receive access to their own dashboards only, encouraging them to see where and how they can make improvements to their own working practice.

Designed for a Changing World of Work

Work no longer exists in isolation. Economic pressure, health inequality,

caring responsibilities, and social instability all show up somewhere —

and often that "somewhere" is inside organisations.

How people interact with work has changed; workers' expectations have shifted.

They have access to more information, their network has expanded across continents

with many relationships also taking place digitally — and along with it,

fear and insecurity have risen.

How Bessie Helps Organisations

Understand Impact

See how external pressures are affecting capacity, performance, and resilience across your organisation with clear, actionable insights.

Distinguish Risks

Identify which risks you can influence versus those beyond your remit, allowing for focused, effective intervention strategies.

Evidence-Led Action

Implement early, evidence-led responses that are proportionate, credible, and humane — targeting resources where they matter most.

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Let's talk about how Bessie can work for your organisation.

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