Health & Safety Laboratory: Safety Climate Tool

Summary

The Health & Safety Laboratory (HSL) Safety Climate Tool (SCT) measures the perceptions of the workforce on health and safety issues, offering a unique insight into the safety culture within an organisation. It can be applied across industries of all sizes, from SMEs to large complex organisations. Multi-site companies can also use it to look at the strengths and weaknesses of different sites or business units.

The HSL SCT is delivered on a CD-ROM, which you install onto a suitable computer to allow you to produce a customised questionnaire that is then run across your organisation. Once the questionnaire survey has been run, the tool produces a series of automated charts that allow detailed analysis of the findings.

(HSL is an agency of the Health and Safety Executive.)

Content

Key benefits of tool

• Raises the profile of Health & Safety – engages the workforce to talk about health and safety issues.
• Captures sensitive information – participants respond anonymously.
• Enables active management of health and safety - allows companies to highlight both areas of concern and good practice.
• Provides a baseline measure - can help you evaluate whether health and safety initiatives have had the desired effects on performance.

Key features

• Generates paper and HTML versions of the questionnaire.
• Quick wizard guides the user through easy set up to produce the survey.
• The survey can be tailored towards the organisation, for example by incorporating the company logo and supporting Management statement and by tailoring terminology within the SCT statements.
• Allows for up to 9 demographic questions and an additional 6 open questions.
• The software automatically analyses the data to produce a series of charts and also allows detailed filtering to further interrogate your findings