The S.A.F.E. OH& S on-line survey system

One of the strongest aspects about the S.A.F.E system is its on-line survey process. Every individual in a team, a department, a division, a location or the entire enterprise can participate in the survey by taking the questionnaire on line. Not only does this immediately offer every survey participant an immediate output report recording their own opinions about current OH&S performance in the 10 categories of the S.A.F.E system but an overall summary is also created for the entire participating group.

The overall summary report also details the aggregated feedback results for each of the ten categories measured in the profiles-r-us.com occupational health and safety opinion Survey, and each of the individual questions that comprise the survey instrument (80 in total). Inevitably, any report is likely to contain opinions or views that are relatively positive and opinions and views that are relatively negative. Both provide opportunities for better organisational OHS performance by taking the data seriously and by acting firmly and quickly on the results.

This Summary Report contains the following:

• An introduction to the importance of rigorously and systematically gathering people's opinions, attitudes, beliefs and values and acting on the results (whatever they may be).
  

• The team or organisation's graphic profiles plus supporting statistical summary
  

• A category by category report that summarises the team or the organisation's results in ten major OHS areas (two for each of the five key OH& S clusters.

• A report that summarises results at individual question level
  

• One page action suggestions to provide ideas on what can be immediately considered in future planning terms for each of the five clusters involved (in order to help create and sustain organisational OHS success).

The on-line S.A.F.E survey process

The on-line S.A.F.E OHS survey has 80 questions. 70 of these are core questions that remain the same for every survey. However, the survey also allows 10 questions (one for each category) to be tailored to reflect important short term or local issues to be canvassed in a team or particular enterprise location for example. The S.A.F.E OHS survey is unique in on-line assessment systems in that it offers every participating individual a 12 page output report that summarises their own personal scores, organised into their categories and with some short interpretation notes. Individuals can use this report to compare their answers to those generated by the whole team, department of enterprise. For the entire respondent group, each S.A.F.E OHS survey generates a 40-page complete output report. Even this provides rich interpretative data, the report can then also be produced in a range of demographic analysis versions to allow even more detailed analysis to be undertaken.

The S.A.F.E OHS survey plots overall results on a circular profile (such as the one illustrated below).

This quickly shows the degree to which people in any one team of group (on a collective basis) feel that OHS performance in their organisation is positive in individual clusters and specific categories on the overall wheel. Effort to improve can therefore be subsequently concentrated on those areas in which the category scores are lowest.

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