Posted By grumpy I am thinking of conducting a health and safety climate survey within my organisation to get the view of employees (culture) regarding health and safety issues and management within the organisation, and I wondered if anyone out there can me some guidance as to what the best way of addressing this is. Is the HSE Climate Survey tool still relevant or is there a better computer package that someone else has used to gain the data/information. Are they worth doing at all? Any guidance on this would be much appreciated before i dive in at the deep end. Thanks

Posted By Bill Dark Hi Hi I've used the Climate Tool and it worked fine, just some confusion over some of teh questions and it also seemed to ask the same questions twice according to some people. I also belive it's not available anymore. The main point is that you only consider this route if you have the complete and total backing of your senior management. The results may well be painful and alarming and management will have to be able to demonstrate commitment and take positive action in the follow up stages. No action and you are worse off than when you started. The follow up stages are critical, with a good cross section of staff involved in developing any action plan based on the results. The survey will inevitably raise H&S profile and probably improve culture and attitude in the short term. The really hard part is maintaining momentum and consolidating and improving on that short term gain. I've found them very useful, but not something to take on lightly.

Posted By Dominic Cooper Hi Safety climate surveys can be very useful if done properly. For example, we have found that Perceptions of Safety Training is predictive of actual safety behaviour - see Cooper & Phillips 2004 - http://www.b-safe.net/articles/bsms14.pdf . For companies they can be extremely useful tools that can help to put right aspects of your safety culture that are not working as intended. However, as already pointed out, there hastobe a commitmentfrom the senior management team to acting on the information in a timely manner. We (www.b-safe.net) also run an online safety climate survey service if you wish to use our scientifically validated survey or you can develop your own and we can host it for you.