Safety Culture Guide
Written by Cameron Arney
Updated at May 19th, 2026
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The Safe365 Safety Culture Maturity Index is a data-driven, continuously updated measure of how effectively safety is embedded across an organisation, used to identify gaps, prioritise action, and track improvement over time.
Overview of the Safe365 Safety Culture Maturity Assessment
This video provides a high-level overview of Safe365 explaining its purpose. This onboarding video is used to inform wider audiences about the Safe365 project starting in their organisation.
What does the Safety Index mean?
The Safety Index is a lead indicator providing insights into the organisation’s overall health and safety capability.
Making Changes to an Assessment Question
Making Changes to Safety Index Answers
As you move through your strategic plans, you will need to update the responses to your assessment questions. This can be done at any stage.
To make changes to the Safety Index:
- Select the element you wish to change.
- Select the rater that now applies.
The Safety Index will automatically recalculate.
Accessing Guidance
Generating an Assessment Summary and Guidance
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Assessment Summary
Generate Your Assessment Executive Summary
Purpose: Turn your overall assessment result into a clear, executive-ready narrative you can use for reporting, governance, and board discussions, without specialist interpretation.
When to use this
- You have completed an assessment and want a plain-language summary of where your safety culture sits
- You need a defensible starting point for a leadership or board conversation
- You want to surface top strengths and priority focus areas quickly
What you get
A narrative covering the current state of your safety culture in plain language, the key strengths, and the areas that matter most right now. It is written to be shared as-is with leaders who were not involved in the assessment.
And don't forget for specific guidance on the elements referenced, you can generate Element-Level Guidance.
Generate you Executive Summary
- Click into the ‘Assessment’ Tab
- Click 'Generate Executive Summary'
- When generated, click 'View More'
- Review your insights, use the Copy option to insert into reports
- When changes are made, click 'Refresh' to generate updated insights.
Generating Module Summaries
Generate Module Summaries
Purpose: Get a focused summary for a single module so you can understand that area in isolation and decide where to start.
When to use this
- The overall summary has pointed you toward a module you want to understand in more depth
- You need to brief a team or owner responsible for one specific area
- You want to compare priorities across modules before committing to a focus
What you get
A plain-language read on that module's current state, what is working, and where the priority gaps sit. Useful for handing a single area to the person or team who owns it.
And don't forget for specific guidance on the elements referenced, you can generate Element Level Guidance.
Generate Module Summaries
- Click into any Module
- Click ‘Generate Module Summary’ and wait for the module summary to compile
- Review the module-specific strengths and focus areas
Generating Element Level Guidance
Generate Element-Level Guidance
Purpose: Get practical, actionable guidance on what is typically required to move a specific element up to its next Level or Rater.
When to use this
- You know which element you want to improve and need to understand what "better" looks like
- Your team needs clarity on what change is required, not just that change is needed
- You are building an improvement plan and want a practical reference point per element
What you get
A clear explanation of what progress looks like for that element and the practical steps usually needed to advance it, written to support planning and team discussion.
Start with the elements flagged as priorities in your assessment or module summary. Where guidance points to deeper work, use it to scope where leadership focus or specialist support is needed.
Generate Element-Level Guidance
- Click into an individual Element
- Click ‘Generate Guidance’
- Review the actionable steps describing what is typically required to reach the next Level or Rater.
Adding Notes when making Assessment Changes
Adding Notes in the Maturity Assessment
It is best practice to add a note when making changes to an assessment question. This gives visibility for other users to see the justification for the change in rater and helps satisfy the ability to review and audit all answers.
To Add a Note when completing or changing an Assessment Question:
- On a completed assessment, click into an element.
- Click ‘Add Note’ and enter the reason for changing.
- Change the Rater.
When completing the assessment for the first time, you are able to add notes as you work through the questions.
Adding Actions to Elements
Adding an Action in the Safe365 Maturity Assessment
You can set up Actions within your Safe365 Maturity Assessment, these could be reminders or tasks. These Actions can also be assigned to other Users in the Safe365 account.
Some examples of these Actions could be:
- Reviewing Documentation
- Making changes to processes
- Reminding of tasks
These Actions will sit directly in the question you've assigned it to, but it will also be available in the Workspace Tab.
To add an Action to an Assessment Question:
- Click into an Element.
- Click ‘Add Action’.
- Fill out the Action Details and Assign to a user.
The assignee will be notified with the Action.
Common Support Resources: