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Health & Safety Climate & Culture Assessments Overview
Workplace health & safety climate and culture is a key determinant of organisational performance. As a core value, looking after Health & Safety is one of the critical success factors that influences the way things are ‘done’ in the organisation; grounded in assumptions and beliefs, adopted by executives and other team members.
Organisations that achieve great health & safety performance, consistently experience an improved and sustainable overall performance over time.
Part 1: Qualitative Assessment via site visit & interviews
Part 1 of the assessment based on Edgar Schein’s culture model, where a strong health & safety culture permeates 1) through visible and apparent artefacts; 2) through espoused values, benchmarked against leadership behaviours and stated values; 3) through the assumptions people make, which can either enable or impede improved performance.
Understanding and interpreting the artefacts, values, and assumptions will help the executive leadership team to build greater awareness and understanding of your health & safety culture.
Health & Safety Quantitative Survey - Artefacts, Values & Assumptions
Part 1: Qualitative Assessment via site visit & interviews
Part 2 of the assessment looks at creating diagnostic profiles of the ‘Current’ & ‘Desired’ states of the health & safety culture across five perspectives, incorporating 20 unique health & safety cultural traits, including a ‘readiness for change’ assessment:
- PROCESSES alignment of processes with the Health & Safety vision.
- PEOPLE training staff and communicating with people.
- PARADIGMS critical Health & Safety leadership behavioural traits.
- PROGRAMMES health & safety strategy, recognition, rewards, budgeting.
- INTELLIGENCE embracing & applying new knowledge, ambiguity & resilience.
Gravity Health & Safety Quantitative Survey: Perspectives & Traits
Our comprehensive approach to Health & Safety culture and climate assessment involves both qualitative and quantitative methods to provide a detailed understanding of your organization’s current and desired states. By analyzing artefacts, values, and assumptions through site visits and interviews, we build a robust awareness of the existing safety culture. This is complemented by our Gravity Health & Safety Quantitative Survey, which evaluates critical perspectives and traits such as processes, people, paradigms, programs, and intelligence.
The outcomes of these assessments offer a clear picture of how health & safety visions are lived and supported, how investments in people drive behavior change, and how leadership traits and strategic programs sustain performance. By embracing new knowledge and managing uncertainty, we aim to foster a proactive and resilient safety culture.
