Introducing the Safety Culture Assessment
Surface how safety is experienced across the organisation, by individuals, teams, and leaders, and provide a shared understanding of the current safety culture.
Introducing the Safety Culture Assessment
Surface how safety is experienced across the organisation, by individuals, teams, and leaders, and provide a shared understanding of the current safety culture.
A Safety Culture Assessment helps organisations understand the beliefs and behaviours driving safety performance, identify cultural enablers and barriers, align with contemporary safety thinking, and equip leaders to drive meaningful change.
- Identify: Prevailing beliefs, attitudes, and behaviours that shape safety performance.
- Enable: Highlight enablers and barriers to a mature safety culture.
- Align: Support alignment with modern safety thinking (e.g., Human and Organisational Performance, High-Reliability Organisations, Safety II, Safety Differently, Just Culture, Resilience Engineering).
- Equip: Equip leaders with the insight needed to take targeted, strategic action.
- Establish: Establish a foundation for cultural change, leadership development, and continuous improvement.
Outcomes of the
Safety Culture Assessment
The assessment combines traditional and contemporary thinking about safety, accountability, leadership, and risk. Unlike off-the-shelf diagnostics, it focuses on:
The assessment also provides both strategic and tactical insights by blending quantitative survey data with qualitative analysis through leader engagement and facilitated discussion.
1: Leadership
Clearer insight into how leadership vision, language, and symbolic actions shape culture.
2: Readiness (Collective Mindfulness)
Baseline understanding of how well your workforce anticipates and responds to risk.
3: Reasoning and Operation (Cognitive Dissonance)
Insight into where cultural contradictions or ‘mixed messages’ may be creating confusion or resistance.
4: Influencing Behaviour (Psychological Triggers)
Identification of subtle pressures, peer norms, or groupthink influencing frontline actions.
5: Systems Relevance (Leadership Sensemaking)
Clarity on whether systems are seen as meaningful, useful, and responsive.
6: Vision (Harm/Risk Values)
Assessment of alignment between organisational vision and how people interpret harm and risk.
7: Priorities (Safety Judgement)
Understanding of how safety is balanced (or not) against competing demands.
8: Learning Capacity (Resilience)
Insight into how teams learn from experience under pressure.
9: Competence (Commitment)
Measurement of how people invest in ongoing development and reflective practice.
10: Practice (Risk and Communication)
Understanding of how risk is discussed, reported, and responded to in practice.
Safety Culture Assessment timeline, themes and focus points.
What's included in the Safety Culture Assessment?
The survey combines traditional and contemporary thinking about safety, accountability, leadership, and risk.
A validated set of survey items tailored to reflect your specific industry, context, and strategic goals, ensuring relevance and actionable insights.
A short, focused session with senior leaders to explain the assessment’s purpose, process, and impact, ensuring alignment, sponsorship, and momentum.
Flexible delivery options that meet your workforce where they are, whether on-site, remote, or a mix of both, maximising participation and inclusivity.
A clear, narrative-driven summary of findings with visual data insights that identify priority themes, patterns, gaps, and strengths across your organisation.
A collaborative debrief session where findings are explored in depth with leadership teams to promote shared understanding, dialogue, and ownership.
Targeted guidance that connects your data insights to practical next steps, offering big-picture strategy and frontline actions.
Fit within a broader program
Bio-socio-psycho Assessment
Understand the bio-socio-psycho dynamics that influence how people experience work and life and to provide a clear picture of the enablers and constraints affecting workforce capacity.
Safety governance and due-diligence Assessment
Assess and enhance the organisational systems and leadership practices that underpin WHS compliance and operational risk management.
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