Safety Climate Tool (SCT) 2.0

Update

NEW! The Safety Climate Tool 2.0 has been enhanced in response to user feedback. It now offers improved functionality, easier navigation, and new features that deliver greater value and benefits, including:

a modern design and layout
a dedicated summary page with redesigned charts and graphs for clearer score representation
significantly enhanced benchmarking (now comprises data from 798 organisations and 420,000 respondents, compared to the previous dataset of 130 organisations)
a gap analysis tool to compare directly against the benchmarking data
updated percentile scores, with quartile and interquartile ranges for deeper insight
annexes showing mean scores for each demographic set to highlight strengths and areas for improvement
a new one-page summary report for easy printing and displaying across an organisation
a redesigned user interface with integrated guidance for a more intuitive experience

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Overview

The Safety Climate Tool was created by HSE's expert scientists to assess the attitudes of workers within an organisation towards health and safety issues. It measures an element of safety culture – the ‘way things are done’ in your organisation when it comes to health and safety. This is a significant starting point for any organisation to continually improve and raise standards.

Using an online 40-set question survey, the Safety Climate Tool explores your workers’ attitudes and perceptions in key areas of health and safety, while guaranteeing anonymity. It scores your organisation against the eight health and safety factors: organisational commitment, health and safety oriented behaviours, health and safety trust, usability of procedures, engagement in health and safety, peer group attitude, resources for health and safety and accident and near miss reporting. Once the survey has been completed, it generates a comprehensive report and provides guidance that will help manage and improve the organisation’s safety culture over time.

What is safety culture?

Safety culture is often referred to as "the way things are done around here". It's a combination of the attitudes and values held, the behaviours and the management system within your organisation or departments that influences how something is done, rather than how it should be done.

Watch as HSE’s Chartered Psychologist Phoebe Smith guides you through the process of understanding and managing organisational safety culture.

Supporting resources and getting started

We are pleased to provide a wealth of supporting resources to help you build a firm foundation for your Safety Climate Tool. These include making the case presentations, stakeholder management guidance, example correspondence and publicity materials. These will guide you in setting up a successful survey and help to increase engagement with your workers.

How it works

Purchase a licence for your organisation's size (no. of workers) and create your account.
Build the Safety Climate Tool by following the steps, customising the demographics, adding your organisation's branding and getting it ready for circulation.
Collect responses by sharing the link with your workers, knowing that all data is anonymous and GDPR compliant.
Analyse the results to highlight priority areas and benchmark your performance against others in your industry.
Move forward by discussing the results with your workers, plan interventions and track improvements year-on-year.

Key benefits

Reduce the number of accidents and near misses by using it as a leading indicator to proactively measure and improve safety culture.
The results can be used to support ISO45001 and other leading accreditations.
Available in over 56 language templates (Arabic, French, Mandarin (Traditional), German, Japanese, Spanish etc.)
Can be customised to include your organisation's logo, write a personalised introduction, choose the most appropriate demographic responses, and tailor the terminology used in the core statements.
Ability to benchmark results against HSE's exclusive industry dataset.
Automatically analyses the responses and generates a valuable summary report of the results.
Examines employee and management results for comparison.
Creates bespoke reports of your chosen demographics to highlight key priorities going forward.
Provides suggestions for next steps and recommendations on how to address them.
Can be used at any time from your own secure web account, making the process simple, quick and convenient.
Data can be segmented in a range of different ways to identify good practice as well as areas for improvement.

Trusted by organisations globally

Learn how James Bird from Kier Transportation has used the HSE Safety Climate Tool to support their organisation.
Learn how Mick Cooper from Swisslog has used the HSE Safety Climate Tool to support their organisation.

Organisations both in the UK and globally are proactively using Safety Climate Tool to measure and improve their safety culture. It is used and trusted by organisations of all sizes, across all industry sectors. Customers frequently report to us that, because of using the SCT, they have achieved greater engagement and commitment to health and safety from employees, have reduced the number of accidents at work, reduced costs and have demonstrated better leadership.

"The Safety Climate Tool increased line manager engagement across all areas of our organisation. We introduced initiatives, such as the delivery of toolbox talks, an effective near miss reporting system and a health and safety management platform. The catalyst for these introductions was the HSE Safety Climate Tool."

"I find the tool a useful snapshot of company culture and positively for the business has shown improvements year on year. This means the business is heading in the right direction, not by management perceptions but by the employees themselves."

"The Safety Climate Tool has supported our cultural improvement strategy and it has clearly worked based on the survey data. The most important improvement was engagement. Delighted with the Tools’ output and all the supporting guidance that comes with it."

"The Safety Climate Tool is a great investment that allows you to drive improvement based on real and meaningful data from within your organisation and beyond. The ability to drill down into your demographics within the tool is powerful and helps to target focussed improvement where you see the best opportunities. I would not join an organisation without using this tool to begin the journey!"

"We decided it was time to start a structured safety culture journey. The SCT aligns well with our core values and integrated management systems, particularly regarding continual improvement. Being able to quantify our people’s perceptions across the eight factors has been invaluable as a ‘snapshot’ of where we are and will be the main tool, we use in measuring our progress. When combined with responses to the open questions, we have been able to build up a reliable picture of our safety climate."

Read full case studies

Licence pricing

A licence permits administrative and user rights to the Safety Climate Tool (all prices exclude VAT).

For organisations with more than 6,000 workers, a price is available upon request.

Size of organisation (no. of workers)	Annual licence cost	Average cost per worker
up to 50	£187.00 + VAT	(£4.99)
51-100	£374.00 + VAT	(£4.99)
101-250	£873.00 + VAT	(£4.99)
251-500	£1,871.00 + VAT	(£4.99)
501-1,000	£3,743.00 + VAT	(£4.99)
1,001-2,000	£6,735.00 + VAT	(£4.49)
2,001-4,000	£10,470.00 + VAT	(£3.49)
4,001-6,000	£17,450.00 + VAT	(£3.49)
6,000+	POA*

*Price on application – please contact us directly for information.

A setup fee of £199 + VAT applies to all licences. An additional charge of £199 + VAT per account applies for organisations requiring multiple administrator accounts.

A licence permits the use of the tool according to the number of people employed by the organisation. Should the number of employees increase, or if you want to expand the licence to cover other parts of the organisation, you will be required to upgrade to the next band.