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Safety Culture Surveys

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Your physical safety controls are solid. A safety culture survey finds out how your people really think and feel about safety day to day, so you can keep it that way as pressures change and habits drift.

SHE Advises consultant talking with employees on site about safety culture

Delivered UK-wide · already completed for organisations including CRH

What a Safety Culture Survey Tells You

People's beliefs about safety shape how they behave. A survey measures your employees' attitudes across three areas:

Engagement in safety matters
Communication up, down and across
Leadership listens and acts on feedback

Putting numbers against these attitudes shows you where your safety maturity is strong, where it needs work, and where to focus next.

What a Safety Culture Survey Reveals

A good survey doesn't just measure safety culture: it shows you exactly where your energy will make the biggest difference. Here's what most organisations find when they look closely:

Where a bit more support or reinforcement would help your team keep safety front of mind when things get busy
A clearer, more accurate picture of what's actually happening on the ground, so leadership decisions are grounded in reality, not assumptions
What's holding people back from reporting near misses, so you can build the trust that gets small issues raised before they become big ones
The practical improvements your own frontline has been thinking about all along, often untapped simply because no one's asked

The whole process, questionnaire and interviews alike, is anonymous, so people can be honest about what's really happening rather than what they think they should say. We'd always recommend repeating the survey over time, to build a genuine feedback loop and show real progress.

How It Works

Not a tick-box exercise: every survey is designed to produce meaningful insight, and a practical plan for the change you want to see.

1
Anonymous Questionnaire
A QR code questionnaire goes out to all your employees, and we collate the results.
2
Trend Analysis
We analyse the data for patterns, so you can see where attitudes are strongest and where they need attention.
3
Anonymous Interviews
We interview a percentage of staff individually, giving people space to open up beyond what a survey can capture.
4
Feedback & Report
We meet with senior management to talk through the findings, and provide a written report to keep, share and act on.

Turning Insight Into Action

Once we know where to focus, we help you build practical strategies around communication, leadership and engagement. That might include:

Helping leaders build the habit of giving teams regular safety updates, prioritised alongside productivity and quality
Introducing behavioural observation and peer-to-peer feedback
Building reward and recognition around the right behaviours, including how managers' own performance reflects safety
Setting KPIs that track proactive safety measures, not just counting accidents after the fact

Why It's Worth Doing

Protects your people
Reducing the risk of injury and safeguarding wellbeing is the reason most organisations start.
Strengthens your reputation
Employees are more likely to stay with an organisation that visibly looks after them.
Supports compliance
A stronger safety culture supports regulatory compliance, and can reduce insurance costs.

Ready to Find Out What Your People Really Think?

Email us and we'll arrange an introductory call to talk through your requirements, anywhere in the UK.

SHE Advises, 44 Felaw Street, Ipswich, Suffolk IP2 8SJ · info@sheadvises.co.uk · 01473 749332