Ensure workplace and employee safety at all times by regularly assessing your organization’s safety culture with a digital checklist.
Use this safety culture assessment checklist to analyze general workplace health and its overall condition. It is an easy read-confirm checklist, which includes inspection of communication processes, risk management, manual tasks, hazardous substances handling, infection control systems, rehabilitation, and stress hazards.
In particular, this checklist can help do the following:
After use, the report generated from this safety culture assessment checklist form can then be exported in PDF, Word, Weblink, or Excel format as needed.
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A safety culture assessment is an organized and systematic approach to evaluating an organization’s culture of safety in the workplace. It aims to ensure that a workplace has the right safety regulations, identify safety risks, and make the necessary adjustments to keep both facilities and workers protected.
Safety culture can be defined as a culture that prioritizes employee safety above all else. Not only does a safety culture pertain to safety procedures in place, but it also includes having safety-centered beliefs, conducting regular conversations on safety, and encouraging employees to have a positive attitude towards safety.
Safety in the workplace is not merely about adhering to regulations and rules; it is a fundamental aspect of an organization’s culture. A strong safety culture can prevent accidents, reduce injuries, and boost employee morale, ultimately leading to higher productivity and lower operational costs.
To measure safety culture and all the efforts that go into it, an assessment is often done in the form of a survey, questionnaire, checklist, or observational report. With a safety culture assessment, you can inspect if your organization and workplace are ensuring a culture of safety as intended and if there are any points of improvement.
Different organizations and types of workplaces will have different safety cultures. However, they all typically assess the same things, including but not limited to the following:
Thus, a typical safety culture assessment form contains fields for assessing the following:
Here is a sample safety culture assessment form in use:
All safety culture assessments and related forms should be done by employers, internal safety officers, HR heads, or other accredited personnel who are most familiar with the workplace’s safety, health, and risk management programs. However, it is also the responsibility of team managers and leaders to be familiar with these assessments and carry out their own for their staff.
“Safety culture” is a broad term pertaining to the general way an organization’s culture, values, actions, and beliefs prioritize safety. On the other hand, “safety climate” refers to an organization’s staff and how they perceive their safety practices or culture are managed.
Safety culture assessments are typically conducted with surveys, questionnaires, interviews, focus groups, and observation reports. You can choose to do them with digital solutions, which can make it easier to compile data, form reports, and analyze the safety of your workplace and employees.
With a digital solution, you can also work anytime and anywhere, collating data and assessing safety culture reports, documentation, and more. This can improve the time needed to assess workplaces, as well as organize data more efficiently.
Each organization has its own way of assessing safety culture, and in most cases, it can be a long process. Assessing safety in the workplace is not a one-time thing, but rather, a process that can take days and multiple checks to finish. With a digital operations and auditing platform such as SafetyCulture (formerly iAuditor), however, this process can be expedited, allowing for more time to create, manage, and implement different safety procedures efficiently.
SafetyCulture is a mobile-ready operations platform that comes with everything you need to create and fill documents, as well as organize them and generate reports as needed. To get started, you can download premade surveys, forms, checklists, and questionnaires from the Public Library, all already templated and easy to edit for personal use. You can also create your own from scratch using SafetyCulture’s smart form builder, or upload any existing one for SafetyCulture use. All files are then stored in the cloud with their own access controls per document, ensuring data privacy and integrity, as well as accessibility anytime and anywhere.
Additionally, you can also use SafetyCulture to do the following:
