The Impact of Safety Culture on an Organisation

'If an organisation has the right culture in place it will find the right people and the right technology to deliver safe and effective performance." (Health and Safety Commission, 2003)

A number of major disasters have highlighted the impact of organisational factors on safety performance, with numerous inquiries identifying 'safety culture' as having a definitive impact.

Safety culture, or the way safety is perceived, valued and prioritised in an organisation, not only has an obvious and direct effect on accident rates, it also impacts on productivity, reliability, competitiveness and even employee morale. 

Organisations with an effective safety culture have realised that by making an asset of safety rather than a risk, brings positive, demonstrable results throughout their business.

Improve your Safety Culture with the Safety Climate Tool

As an agency of  HSE, we understand health and safety and the impact it has in the workplace when it is poorly managed. That's why we developed the HSL Safety Climate Tool  (SCT) - to enable you to gain invaluable insight  into the 'safety culture' of your organisation and take the steps needed to improve it.

Through a series of tailored questions you will be able to measure the perceptions of your workforce to health and safety issues and ensure that valuable resource is being focused where it's needed and where it will be most effective.

The SCT is a CD Rom and it can be customised to your organisation.

It can be applied across industries of all sizes- from small to medium enterprises (SME's) through to larger, more complex organisations.

View a video demonstration of the Safety Climate Tool by clicking on the YouTube link below;

or view the demo here through Windows Media Player