'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
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 [...]
Ecco takes over management of SCL Germany from NEN
Management of the Safety Culture Ladder in Germany has been transferred to Ecco Ecology and Communication. This means that Ecco will now be responsible for organising and supervising consultations and the annual auditors' day. For the time being, office visits to the certifying institutions and attendance of auditors will continue to be organised from the Netherlands.
Web tool SCL now offers SAQ SCL 2.0 in Polish and Turkish as well
Good news for organisations using the Web tool SCL: the SAQ SCL 2.0 is now available in Polish and Turkish. In addition to the existing languages (Dutch, English, German and French), organisations that have staff who speak these languages can now use the SAQ in their mother tongue. Why is this important? The Safety Culture [...]
Optimising SCL for small organisations
NEN has launched a project to improve the applicability of the Safety Culture Ladder (SCL) for small organisations and make the SCL more accessible. The is aim is to make the implementation of the SCL easier for small organisations. This has looked at: Proportional means of proof from Step 3 onwards (the ASA is only accepted [...]