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What is a Safety Perception Survey?
A Safety Perception Survey helps organisations understand how employees view safety in their workplace. It measures awareness, attitudes, and behaviours, providing insights to strengthen the safety culture and reduce risk. Consultivo’s survey uses analytics and benchmarking to turn perception data into measurable improvement.
A safety perception survey (also known as a safety culture survey or safety climate survey) measures employees’ attitudes, opinions, and experiences about workplace safety. It helps you understand whether people feel safe, supported, and empowered to act safely.
In simple terms, it answers the question:
“What do people really think about safety in our workplace?”
By combining the perceptions of employees and contractors, organisations can make informed decisions, design targeted interventions, and build a sustainable culture of safety.
Objectives of the Safety Survey
Our employee safety survey helps you:
- Identify Perception Gaps
Discover differences in how safety is perceived across job roles, locations, and divisions.
- Benchmark Safety Culture
Compare results against your industry peers using our extensive database.
- Assess Cultural Strength
Evaluate the maturity of your safety culture across leadership, systems, and behaviours.
- Reduce Risk Proactively
Detect underlying issues before they lead to incidents.
5.
- Ensure Compliance
Align with system requirements to periodically assess your workplace health and safety culture.
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Understand what your people really think about safety – and use it to build a stronger, safer workplace.
Beyond Measurement: Turning Insights into Action
A safety culture audit or survey is only the beginning. Consultivo partners with you to design interventions that drive measurable improvement.
Through Safety Leadership Training, Behaviour-Based Safety (BBS) Training, and culture-building programmes, we help you turn data into lasting change.
Our approach ensures that the results of your safety culture perception survey don’t just sit in a report – they shape safer habits, stronger leadership, and a truly resilient culture of safety.
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Scope of Work: How We Do It
We design and administer the survey across all company sites and workforce categories - employees, contractors, and partners.
- Conducted through a secure online or app-based platform, with optional paper-based versions for remote areas.
- Available in multiple languages for inclusivity.
- Anonymity guaranteed to encourage honest responses.
Our experts design precise, objective, and relevant questions aligned with your organisational OHS requirements.
- Includes a feedback section for open comments.
- Pre-tested for clarity and effectiveness before full launch.
- Typical survey window: 3–4 weeks.
- Progress updates at defined intervals.
- Comprehensive reporting within 4–10 weeks, including insights, benchmarking, and improvement recommendations.
- Detailed digital and printed reports with:
- Executive summary
- Site-wise analysis
- Strengths and improvement areas
- Global and industry benchmarking
- Recommended actions
- Online dashboard access
- Feedback and action-planning workshop
Our Approach: The Consultivo Way
safety culture transformation projects
40
safety culture transformation projects completed in last two years
120,000+
People
14
years at the forefront of People Safety Advisory Space
250+
Units Covering Manufacturing, Mining, Agri-Business, Power & Utility, Construction, Services, FMCG, Logistics and Many More.
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Comparative Overview of Consultivo Safety Surveys
Developing a strong safety culture goes far beyond reducing incidents. It delivers lasting organisational value:
- Lower accident and incident rates
- Higher employee morale and retention
- Improved productivity and operational reliability
- Stronger stakeholder confidence and social responsibility
- Enhanced resilience during change
- Continuous improvement in safety outcomes
At Consultivo, we don’t just help you meet compliance – we help you build a culture of trust, care, and responsibility.
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Employee Safety Perception Survey - SMILe
Employee Safety Perception Survey – SMILe is a powerful data-driven tool for understanding, benchmarking and catalysing your organisation’s safety performance.
Our methodology of workplace safety surveys is backed up by internationally validated methods that help reduce injuries by strengthening your safety culture.
Our Safety Perception Surveys are Independent, Anonymous, Quantified and Customised.
How an Employee Safety Perception Survey helps in your safety culture?
A Safety Perception Survey helps an organisation to understand the effectiveness of the safety management system from the other end of activities – the recipients. This is an output-driven measurement of the safety initiatives.
Based on the gaps identified in the survey and the subsequent recommendations, organisations will be able to strengthen their leadership initiatives and process components to foster a high performing continually improving safety culture.
Covered 100000+ population in last two years
You get 'As Is Situation' as well as Recommendations for improvement
Scope of the safety perception survey
An Employee Safety Perception Survey is carried out to:
- Evaluate the safety culture of the employees with reference to occupational health and safety issues
- Assess employee involvement level in the existing safety program
- Assess the employee perception regarding the existing safety management
Following key elements are addressed to evaluate the safety culture of employees:
Safety Leadership
- Management Commitment
Safety Management
- Safety Concerns
- Employee Training
- Emergency Management
- Safety Communication
Safety Culture
- Attitude Towards Safety
- Employee Participation
It’s something more…
It’s about working with people to change their attitude and behaviour at work as well as beyond the workplace.
Establishing a Culture of Proactive Leadership…
Enhancing your organisation’s safety culture is only about removing hazards in the workplace?
or
is it just institutionalising safety rules & procedures to improve the organisation’s safety performance?
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How do we conduct the survey?
It’s very important to conduct the survey by experienced resources who have the required skill sets of questioning techniques, conversant in locally used languages, understand the quality requirements of the survey. Additionally, they must be having adequate knowledge of safety management, safety culture and safety behaviour.
Consultivo uses veteran safety professionals as well as behavioural scientists; who have vast survey experiences. The team generally comprises of different layers of professionals who has specialised skills to interview top management as well as people with low literacy level.
Types of Employee Safety Perception Survey (ESPS)
Either it could be a baseline workplace safety survey or a follow-up survey. A baseline survey is being conducted for the first time in an organisation to know the ‘as is situation’ of the employees’ perception towards the safety system. A follow-up survey is to find out the improvements that happened due to the action plans initiated based on the previous survey.
How to design the questionnaire for the ESPS?
Developing a perception survey questionnaire needs a very specific set of competencies. Questions have to be simple, easy to understand, able to detect quality deficiencies during the survey and finally shall be able to meet the survey objectives when analysed.
We always develop a customised questionnaire for each of our employee safety perception surveys.
A Tool to diagnose and facilitate Your Safety Culture
Involving every level of your organisation, the Employee Safety Perception Survey gives your organisation an objective, data-driven process for understanding how your safety culture changes over time.
Periodic use of the Safety Perception Survey gives you an effective process for assessing, benchmarking and catalysing safety culture improvement at every stage of your journey to world-class safety. Employees accept the outcome with confidence. Corporate leaders become aware of how the company is performing in terms of safety culture. For organisations with an existing safety program, this process can focus and rejuvenate efforts by rapidly penetrating into all levels of the organisation.
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Some more answers to your questions – FAQ
How do we select samples?
Depending on the scope and boundary of the survey, the total population is divided into different strata of homogeneous groups like top management, middle management, junior management, supervisors, technicians & own workers and contractor workers.
The final number of sampling strata or categories, level of confidence, confidence interval depend on the objective of the workplace safety survey as well as several practical onsite situations.
How to design the questionnaire for the ESPS?
Developing a workplace safety survey or safety perception survey questionnaire needs a very specific set of competencies. Questions have to be simple, easy to understand, able to detect quality deficiencies during the survey and finally shall be able to meet the survey objectives when analysed.
It’s good to develop a customised questionnaire for each of our employee safety perception surveys.
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