Wageningen University organised meeting on Safety Culture Ladder 

 Wageningen University organised meeting on Safety Culture Ladder At a meeting in November, Jeroen Haesenbos, NEN consultant, talked about the Safety Culture Ladder (SCL). Wageningen Food Safety Research has been working on the topic of safe innovation in plant breeding in recent years. Over 30 parties from the plant breeding sector got a unique perspective on consciously safe [...]

Complaints procedure Safety Culture Ladder

At NEN, complaints and signals are always handled with the utmost care, according to the Safety Culture Ladder complaints procedure. NEN does not handle all complaints and signals itself, because of NEN's role as scheme manager of the Safety Culture Ladder (SCL). The Committee of Experts (CoE) is responsible for managing, evaluating and updating the content [...].

'Extra pair of eyes improves quality of an audit'

By 2025, all auditors for the Safety Culture Ladder must be re-attended. This means nothing more or less than that during an audit, an expert looks along with the auditor to see if he is doing his job properly. In this way, NEN is trying to increase the quality of audits and thus improve customer safety [...]

'Security must get into our DNA'

Marco Vonk has been municipal secretary at the municipality of De Ronde Venen for a year and a half. However, his safety thinking stems from his time at large industrial companies. 'We can still learn a lot from that as municipalities. But with the SCL, we have an effective tool in our hands as a municipality to improve safety thinking.' De Ronde Venen decided [...]

Successful training courses for in-service training auditors SCL 2.0

NEN is committed to strengthening the safety culture within organisations. And this is bearing fruit. NEN has so far conducted a series of successful auditor training courses on the Safety Culture Ladder, the tool that helps companies assess and improve their safety culture. These trainings are specifically designed to equip auditors [...]

Tutorials Web tool SCL available: improve your safety culture

Tutorials web tool SCL

Are you looking for ways to strengthen your safety culture? Then the tutorials of the Web tool SCL are available to help you. With these handy videos, you can get started quickly and efficiently to take your organisation to the next level. The new tutorials guide you step by step so that you [...]

'Everyone a safe working environment, including in healthcare'

The Safety Culture Ladder (SCL) has its origins in the railway industry and the ideas have slowly but surely trickled down to other sectors from there. But it is mainly the 'tougher' sectors, such as construction and infrastructure, where people see the usefulness of the SCL. Unjustly so, because even in more 'soft' sectors such as [...]

'SCL brings safety into the DNA of projects'

Willemien Bosch is director of Royal NLingenieurs, the Dutch trade association of consultancy, management and engineering firms. The association's site lists its members' overarching, societal themes in a neat row of columns. Building Quality and Safety is at the top left. An important theme! Bosch followed up her contribution at the congress on the [...]

'SCL 2.0 provides more guidance and is of value to more sectors'

A lot of things are changing, but not actually that much. In a nutshell, that is what is coming at companies working with the Safety Culture Ladder version from 2016 and wanting to move to the new 2.0 version. What about that exactly? Hanneke Jansen explained it at the Safety Culture Ladder congress on 4 June.

Look back: successful Safety Culture Ladder event

On Tuesday, 4 June, over 400 professionals gathered to learn more about the Safety Culture Ladder (SCL). It was a day full of valuable insights and practical tips. Visitors could attend sessions on: Psychological safety Web tool SCL Differences SCL 2016 vs SCL 2.0 Social safety Introduction to the SCL SCL for small businesses Presentation [...]