Safety Climate Surveys

The Positive Safety Benchmark — four tiers designed to give your organisation the right level of insight, whatever the context.

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What is a Safety Climate Survey?

A practical way to understand safety climate — and what it means for your organisation.

The Positive Safety Benchmark is Sentis’ safety culture assessment system, helping organisations understand how safety is experienced across their workforce. It provides a clear snapshot of safety climate, highlighting what’s working well and where attention is best focused.

At its core is a safety climate survey that captures people’s perceptions, attitudes and day-to-day experiences of safety at a point in time. This data is interpreted against Sentis’ extensive dataset, providing meaningful context and comparison.

The Positive Safety Benchmark is available in multiple tiers. Organisations can start with a focused climate survey to establish a baseline, or choose more in-depth options that combine survey data with expert-led qualitative methods, including a consultant-led onsite safety evaluation.

This allows organisations to choose the level of insight they need — from a quick pulse check through to a more comprehensive view — while remaining grounded in the same proven survey foundation.

What is a Safety Climate Survey (SCS)?

Safety Climate Survey (SCS)

Sentis' Safety Climate Survey (SCS) is a diagnostic tool that measures 22+ dimensions of safety climate across your workforce. Safety climate reflects employees' shared perceptions and observations of how safety is managed — a snapshot of the deeper safety culture at a point in time.

What is an Onsite Safety Evaluation (OSE)?

Onsite Safety Evaluation (OSE)

Sentis' Onsite Safety Evaluation (OSE) is an expert-led assessment of safety culture, conducted on site. Through interviews, focus groups and direct observation, it identifies themes, strengths and opportunities — delivering a cultural maturity ranking across 24 dimensions. Safety culture represents an organisation's shared beliefs, expectations and values about safety. It's what shapes behaviour when no one's watching, and it's what a climate survey alone can't fully reveal.

Why measure safety culture with Sentis?

With over two decades of experience in safety culture diagnostics, we know real change starts with evidence, not assumptions.

The Positive Safety Benchmark will help you:

What our Safety Climate Survey measures

Our safety climate survey measures 22+ dimensions across  four key areas, giving you a structured, evidence-based view of what’s driving safety performance in your organisation.

Alongside the four core areas, the survey includes outcome measures, connecting what people perceive to what’s actually happening on the ground.

Leadership
  • Safety leadership
  • Management safety commitment
  • Supervisor safety commitment
  • Safety input
  • Safety communication
  • Safety systems
  • Health & wellbeing
  • Approach to incident investigations
  • Emergency readiness
  • Quality of safety briefings
  • Job resources
  • Team safety support
  • Safety involvement
  • Equipment
  • Environmental engineering
  • Housekeeping
  • Safety behaviours
  • Impact of work on personal wellbeing
  • Underreporting rate
  • Supervisor work pressure (physical & wellbeing)

Optional Modules

In addition to the core survey dimensions, organisations can select up to two optional modules to explore specific risk areas or priorities in more depth.

  • Contractor Safety Relations
  • Critical Risk Climate
  • Error Management Climate
  • Psychological Safety
  • Safety Training (Quality & Transfer)
  • Wellbeing Climate

Backed by 20+ Years of Safety Culture Benchmarking

Our benchmarking dataset spans 13 industries and 67,000+ workers, giving your results meaningful context, not just numbers.

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What's included?

The Positive Safety Benchmark is available across four tiers, each built on the same validated safety climate survey. The difference lies in the level of expert involvement, reporting depth, and whether an Onsite Safety Evaluation is included.

Not sure which tier is right for you? Our team can help you choose.

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Best for
Regular culture check-ins
Full survey, fast and affordable
Expert analysis and reporting
Survey plus onsite evaluation
Safety Climate Survey
Focused dimensions Pulse focuses on a selection of safety climate dimensions aligned to key areas of interest, rather than the full set of survey dimensions.
Interactive Data Dashboard
Results Debrief Meet with a Sentis Principal Consultant to discuss and interpret your results.
Custom Survey Wording Customise your survey wording to align with how work is done and spoken about at your organisation.
Sentis Implementation Manager Your assessment will be supported every step of the way by a Sentis Implementation Manager.
Custom Reporting & Recommendations Analysis and recommendations are developed by experienced Sentis consultants, drawing on both data and real-world context.
Results Presentation
Onsite Safety Evaluation (OSE) The Onsite Safety Evaluation is a consultant-led qualitative assessment, delivered as a standalone service or as part of the Explorer tier of the Positive Safety Benchmark.
Included with all Positive Safety Benchmark options:
  • Advice & Communications Pack
    Practical templates and materials to support survey rollout and engagement.

  • Response Rate Updates
    Twice-weekly response updates during survey rollout, with demographic breakdowns.

  • Tableau Training Video
    On-demand guidance to help teams navigate and interpret results.

Need something extra?

Get in touch for a custom quote

We also offer:

Choosing the Right Solution for Your Organisation

Whether you need a quick pulse check or a comprehensive cultural investigation, the Positive Safety Benchmark offers a clear, data-driven foundation for informed decision-making. Explore each tier to find the best fit for your goals.

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Pulse

Quick pulse check to track progress over time.

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Express

Fast, scalable insights to kickstart change.

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Insights

Deep analysis to guide targeted action.

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Explorer

Comprehensive view with qualitative depth.

Not sure which to choose?

Our team of psychologists and safety experts can point you in the right direction.

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