Study on impact SCL: Rising leadership awareness and more appropriate approach
A higher commitment to safety from the leadership and a more appropriate set of measures. These are the main conclusions from a study by NEN's Committee of Experts on the impact of the Safety Culture Ladder (SCL) on organisations. The study was conducted by a collaboration of TU Delft and TenneT TSO. [...]
Safety Culture Ladder further defined and easier to apply
The new version of the Safety Culture Ladder (SCL), released on 1 September, has been improved in several respects. The tool, which aims to promote safety culture within companies, better describes in the new version what the different steps entail. It also focuses more on the result rather than how that result should be [...]
Safety concerns us all
Lieke van Hoven - Safety Behaviour Specialist at Heijmans Safety belongs to all of us. But how do you make sure we are all on the same page? At Heijmans, the focus is on two aspects: on the one hand, we focus on knowledge and risk recognition, and on the other hand, we pay a lot of attention to attitude and [...]
You can’t just change culture over a Friday afternoon drink
Conducting audits for the Safety Culture Ladder (SCL) is quite different from carrying out other audits. Better soft skills are required than when auditing system standards. ‘Engaging with people, that’s what it’s all about. Engaging with people allows auditors to find out much more and get a good impression of an organization,’ says auditor Hans Aarns.