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Safety culture survey

16 statements about how work really happens at your site. For each, pick the answer closest to what people do, not what the policy says. The result places you on the safety culture ladder, from pathological to generative. Best used by asking several people at different levels and comparing answers.

1. Reporting. When someone reports a near miss or an error:

2. Leadership. Senior managers talk about safety:

3. Production pressure. When safety and the schedule conflict:

4. Incident investigation. Incident investigations mainly aim to:

5. Contractors. Contractors are treated:

6. Procedures. Procedures are:

7. Audits. Safety audits are:

8. Workforce involvement. Front-line workers are involved in safety:

9. Hazard awareness. People think about what could go wrong:

10. Training. Safety training is:

11. Metrics. Safety performance is measured by:

12. Behaviour. Unsafe acts are handled by:

13. Change. When equipment, people or processes change:

14. Resourcing. Money and people for safety:

15. Communication. Bad news about safety travels upward:

16. Learning. Lessons from other sites and industries are:

Your result

Answer the statements and press See my result. Unanswered statements are left out.

Basis and sources

The five rungs come from the safety culture maturity model by Hudson and colleagues, used in the Energy Institute Hearts and Minds programme. The rung descriptions below are paraphrased. Each answer is scored 1 (pathological) to 5 (generative). The average, rounded to the nearest whole number, gives your rung. The statements and this scoring are a Verdaqa screening method, not the published survey instrument.

  1. Pathological. Who cares as long as we are not caught. Safety is seen as a cost and a barrier to production.
  2. Reactive. Safety is important, and we do a lot every time we have an accident. Action follows incidents.
  3. Calculative. We have systems in place to manage all hazards. Lots of data and audits, driven by management.
  4. Proactive. We work on the problems that we still find. The workforce is involved and leaders act before harm.
  5. Generative. Safety is how we do business round here. Bad news is welcomed and people look for weak signals.

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