Improvement efforts are consistently more successful if they begin from a known starting point. The purpose of an assessment is to determine that starting point, while exploring feasibility, identifying barriers, and determining optional paths forward.
ProAct Safety has performed over 1,000 site assessments and has helped many organizations to develop customized perception surveys, interview strategies, and methods to analyze safety data to ground the perception findings. Measuring perceptions alone is an inadequate way to understand a culture.
Let ProAct Safety perform a consultant-led assessment or help your organization to develop your own customized method for assessing your site or organizational safety culture.
Below are audio files to assist you in understanding the process of assessing a safety culture:
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EHS Today Interviews:
Changing the Safety Culture
Speaker:
- Rudy Hagen, Director of Strategic Planning for Global Health &Safety, Georgia-Pacific, LLC
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EHS Today Interviews:
Assessing the Safety Culture
Speaker:
- Terry Mathis, Founder and CEO, ProAct Safety, Inc
Articles Available on This Topic:
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Measuring Safety Culture: Why Perception Surveys are Not Enough
EHS Today - April 2009
