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Download: Score sheet (Arabic)
Understanding your HSE culture is a widely used tool for measuring HSE culture. The tool measures organisational HSE culture against the Hearts and Minds/Hudson and Parker safety culture ladder.
Culture can be divided into five levels of development, from the ‘Pathological’ to the ‘Generative’, as shown in the picture below:
Overview
Understanding your HSE culture helps organisations explore their culture by providing descriptions of how companies behave at the 5 different levels of culture. Version 5 uses 18 ‘cultural dimensions’ (things common to most companies that could be used to assess the culture) – and now this has been expanded to 23 dimensions in version 6 (only available in English).
In a workshop, people in the organisation are asked to select those descriptions that most closely reflect how they believe the organisation behaves. This allows the organisation to compare themselves against each cultural level, and to identify areas of strength and weakness.
Steps
1. Run the Understanding your HSE culture exercise in a workshop with up to 20 people from a cross-section of the organisation.
2. Each person will need a copy of the Understanding your HSE culture booklet and a score sheet to do this (score sheets for version 6 can be downloaded at the top of the page).
3. Calculate your results (a spreadsheet is downloadable at the top of the page for version 6) and feed these back to the group using the PowerPoint presentation (downloadable at the top of the page).
4. Use the results to encourage the workshop participants to discuss where they believe the safety issues are and how these can be improved.
Next steps
The findings of the workshop should help you understand your cultural level, and plan your culture change programme, including which issues to focus on and which (if any) Hearts and Minds tools to use. Essentially, the purpose of the workshop is to turn the generalised issues raised using the questionnaire into specific issues. Some of these issues may be the focus of other Hearts and Minds tools, and many won't be.
Q. What is the difference between version 5 (HSE005) and version 6 (HSE201)?
A. Version 5 is available in all languages (including English for a limited period of time), and has been in use largely unchanged since 2004. Version 5 has 18 questions. Process safety is not really a focus of version 5, but is a bigger focus of version 6. Version 6 has 23 questions. Below is a summary of changes to version 6:
We believe the new edition of Understanding your HSE culture is much more well-rounded and relevant for today’s organisations.
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