Assessing safety culture in offshore environments - Industrial Centre

124 S.J. Cox, A.J.T. Cheyne / Safety Science 34 (2000) 111±129of the results of the assessment process, and subsequent actions that may be consideredby those assessing safety climate. The con®dential nature of the assessmentprocess makes it dicult to report this study in great detail.4. Illustration of the toolkit in practiceThe developed ``Safety Climate Assessment Toolkit'' process was initially testedin one organisation involved in hydrocarbon production. The pilot organisation isinvolved in the extraction of hydrocarbons, operating on various sites world-wide.This organisation had a strong commitment to safety, health and environmentalexcellence and also has a tradition of `quality'. The initial management characterisationof their culture for safety was one of `total commitment and safety excellence'.The organisation hoped to appreciate a broader perspective of sharedattitudes and communicate these goals through the use of the assessment toolkit, aswell as examining di€erences between occupational groups. The toolkit procedureswere implemented by an in-house team, who only made use of back-up from theresearch team in analysing the di€erences between occupational groups.The full assessment toolkit (Cox and Cheyne, 1999) consists of three sets of tools,as described earlier: climate questionnaire, semi-structured interview schedule and aset of behavioural indicators. It also provides guidance on their application andinterpretation. The organisation using the toolkit in this case considered the followingsources of evidence:Fig. 2. Radar plot for pilot organisation.