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Safety Culture Scorecard
Answer 10 questions to discover your organisation's safety culture maturity level. Takes less than 5 minutes.
What is this tool — and what is it not?
This scorecard is a directional self-assessment — not a comprehensive safety culture study. It gives you a quick signal about where your organisation currently stands in terms of safety culture maturity. Think of it as a thermometer, not a full medical examination.
The tool is built on established safety science frameworks: Hudson's Safety Culture Maturity Model defines the four maturity levels. The five dimensions assessed — Leadership Commitment, Learning Culture, Risk Management, Just Culture, and Communication Clarity — draw on the work of James Reason (organisational accidents), Sidney Dekker (just culture), Karl Weick & Kathleen Sutcliffe (high reliability organisations), and Edgar Schein (organisational culture and leadership).
The questions are designed to reflect observable behaviour, not attitudes or intentions. This reduces the risk of socially desirable answers — but it does not eliminate it. The result is most reliable when answered honestly and from direct experience.
A meaningful assessment of safety culture always requires field observation, interviews at multiple levels, and document analysis. This scorecard is a starting point for that conversation — not a substitute for it.
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Leadership Commitment
When a serious safety issue is raised, how quickly does senior leadership respond with visible action?
How often does leadership participate in safety walks, reviews, or frontline conversations?
Learning Culture
When an accident or near-miss occurs, what typically happens?
How often do lessons from incidents actually change how work is done?
Risk Management
How would you describe your organisation's approach to risk assessment?
Are risk assessments updated when work conditions or processes change?
Just Culture
How comfortable are employees reporting mistakes or unsafe conditions without fear of blame?
When someone reports a safety concern, what typically happens next?
Communication Clarity
How well does safety-critical information flow between frontline workers and management?
Do managers and frontline workers share the same understanding of the organisation's main safety risks?
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