The assessment of safety culture is key to identifying a companies current level of safety culture (known as its maturity or development level) in order to identify how to learn and improve.

There are a number of different assessment methods including:

• Safety attitude surveys (using questionnaire to elicit workforce attitudes),
• Safety management audits (using an audit process and trained auditor to examine the presence and effectiveness of safety management systems)
• Safety culture workshops (involving a cross-section of the workforce to consider perceptions of the safety culture and elicit improvement ideas)
• Safety performance indicators (analysing data on indicators such as the number of safety tours performed or near miss data).

The safety culture assessment and improvement toolkit provided on this website uses a safety culture assessment questionnaire which is completed by a cross section of your company.  The tool provided then allows you to analyse the results of the questionnaire and indicates your level of safety culture development.  From here, the results will link directly to both general and specific improvement guidance and to examples of good practice.