Summary
In short
- A safety culture maturity assessment is an assessment used in KnowSafe that places the organisation on a maturity scale from reactive through to generative, with evidence for the rating. It is built against ISO 45001 cl.5.1 and forms part of the Safety Culture and Engagement programme.
- Run every two years. Carried out with worker involvement rather than about them.
- The template holds 36 fields across 5 sections, with evidence by dimension repeating for each entry.
- Scoring is maturity level, where high is good.
- ISO 45001 is occupational health and safety management systems. The international standard for managing worker health and safety. Certifiable, and the backbone of most of this library.
- It connects to the rest of the library: links Climate survey, Management review.
What it is
What it is
What is a safety culture maturity assessment?
A safety culture maturity assessment is an assessment used in KnowSafe that places the organisation on a maturity scale from reactive through to generative, with evidence for the rating. It is built against ISO 45001 cl.5.1 and forms part of the Safety Culture and Engagement programme.
When is a safety culture maturity assessment completed?
A safety culture maturity assessment is completed when the task, area or population being assessed is new or has materially changed. Run every two years.
When to use it
When to use it, and when not to
This assessment is one step in a larger programme. Using it for work that belongs to a neighbouring template produces records that are hard to report on later.
Use it for
- The event or activity this assessment covers has occurred, or is about to
- The workspace is being set up, or the register needs an entry added or retired
- You are running the Safety Culture and Engagement programme and this is one of its steps
- A linked record needs this one to exist: links climate survey, management review
Not for
- Safety Climate Survey, which measures how people actually experience safety here, covering trust, reporting, pressure and whether stopping work feels possible.
- Felt Leadership Tour Record, which records a senior manager spending time on the floor talking about safety, and what they heard.
- Safety Conversation Record, which records a short two way conversation about how a job is going and what makes it harder to do safely.
- Anything outside KnowSafe, which belongs in the workspace that owns that process
Standards
What it is built against
ISO 45001Occupational health and safety management systems
The international standard for managing worker health and safety. Certifiable, and the backbone of most of this library.
ISOInternational Organization for Standardization
A voluntary international standard. Widely adopted, often required by customers, and certifiable where a management system standard.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
What is the safety culture maturity assessment template based on?+
It is built against ISO 45001 cl.5.1. ISO 45001 is occupational health and safety management systems. The international standard for managing worker health and safety. Certifiable, and the backbone of most of this library. ISO is international Organization for Standardization. A voluntary international standard. Widely adopted, often required by customers, and certifiable where a management system standard.
What sections does the safety culture maturity assessment contain?+
There are 5 sections: header, evidence by dimension, overall position, related records, what comes next. Together they hold 36 fields, 25 of which are required.
How many safety culture maturity assessment records should we have?+
This is a singleton. One record per workspace, set up once and maintained, rather than one per event. Other templates refer back to it.
Which programme does the safety culture maturity assessment belong to?+
It is part of Safety Culture and Engagement. A measured culture position, with interventions matched to the maturity level you actually have.
How is a safety culture maturity assessment scored?+
Scoring is maturity level. High is good. Scores exist to make the form tell you something, not to produce a percentage for its own sake.
Can the safety culture maturity assessment template be changed?+
Yes. Every field, option, score and conditional rule is editable, and the links to other templates come with it. Most teams install it as it is, run it for a cycle, then adjust.
The agents
What the agents do with it
The form is the easy part. Keeping it current, routing it to the right owner and holding the evidence together is the work that actually slips.
Holds the safety culture maturity assessment library against your registers, routes each record to its owner, and keeps the evidence trail together.
Coordinates the crew, rolls completion and exceptions into one view, and holds every write for your approval before it touches a record.
This template lives in KnowSafe — safety and compliance. Incidents, hazards, permits, inspections and the critical controls behind them.
Meet KnowSafe→Sources
Sources
- ISO 45001 — Occupational health and safety management systems
- ISO — International Organization for Standardization