Free Survey Report
Check Your Safety Culture in 5 Minutes
Answer a few short questions about how your workplace handles safety. We score your answers on a simple 5-stage scale and email you a free report, so you can see exactly where you stand and what to fix first.
- Takes about 5 minutes. The questions are short and jargon free.
- Your free report arrives by email straight away. No sales call to read it.
- Scored by the method Gavin Coyle, a chartered safety expert, has used since 1999.
Get your report
Start the Survey
Tell us where to send your individual safety culture report. We reply with your maturity stage and the practical next step for each area.
What's inside
What Your Free Report Tells You
The survey turns a vague sense of "how are we doing on safety" into a clear position on a recognised maturity ladder, with a defensible reason for each result.
Your maturity stage
We place your organisation on the 5-stage Coyle Approach ladder, from Inattentive to Exemplary, so you know exactly where you stand today.
The evidence behind it
Each result maps to the UK HSE model and US S-CAT criteria and to our cited white paper, so the finding stands up to a board or a regulator.
Your next practical step
The report names the single most useful action for each area, written in plain English by a chartered safety practitioner, not a generic checklist.
The Coyle Approach
Five Stages of Safety Culture Maturity
The survey measures your organisation against a model Gavin Coyle developed over 25 years of frontline assessment and set out in a 7-page cited white paper. Most organisations sit between Reactive and Compliant. The report shows you what moving up one stage actually requires.
- 1 InattentiveSafety is reactive and rules exist on paper only.
- 2 ReactiveThe organisation responds after incidents, not before them.
- 3 CompliantMinimum legal duties are met and recorded consistently.
- 4 ProactiveRisk is managed ahead of the work, not after the event.
- 5 ExemplarySafety is owned at every level and drives daily decisions.
The Coyle Approach, Explained
What Safety Culture Means on a Live Site
Safety culture is the shared values, beliefs and norms that shape how people on a site actually behave around safety, not what the policy folder says they should do. A strong safety management system can sit alongside a weak safety culture: the paperwork is correct, but a worker still skips a permit-to-work step because that is what everyone around them does when the supervisor is not looking. Safety culture is the behaviour underneath the system.
The Coyle Approach is our analytical frame for turning that idea into something a board can act on. Gavin Coyle set it out in a founder-authored white paper that integrates the UK HSE Safety Culture Maturity Model with the US S-CAT Safety Climate Assessment Tool, built on 25 years of frontline assessment rather than a single framework borrowed wholesale. The ladder above this section is the output of that integration: a single, numbered position rather than a vague sense of "we are probably fine."
Measuring it in practice means looking past the audit pass rate to the behaviours the UK HSE's own organisational culture guidance flags as the real indicators: whether near misses get reported without blame, whether a worker will challenge a supervisor over an unsafe act, and whether safety behaviour holds up the same way when no one senior is on site. The free survey below scores your organisation against exactly these indicators and maps the result straight onto the ladder, so the report names a position and a next step rather than a generic "good" or "needs improvement."
Want to go deeper on a specific lever first? See what a positive safety culture looks like in observable terms, how behaviour-based safety moves the same indicators day to day, the practical route to building a safety team that carries the culture, and the ABC model behind BBS itself.
How It Works
How the Safety Culture Assessment Works
A safety culture assessment measures how people actually behave around safety, then scores that behaviour against a recognised maturity model. Ours starts with the free individual survey at the top of this page and, where the result warrants it, scales up to a company-wide assessment led by our chartered team.
Three Steps From Survey to Report
- 1 Answer the Questions
Each respondent answers short, plain-English questions about how safety works on their site day to day. It takes about 5 minutes and needs no documents or preparation.
- 2 We Score Each Area
Every answer is scored against the Coyle Approach, which combines the UK HSE and US S-CAT maturity models. The area scores roll up into a single numbered position on the 5-stage ladder.
- 3 Your Report Arrives by Email
The report gives your stage, the reasoning behind each area score, and the one practical step that will move the overall result most.
What the Questions Cover
The questions are grouped around the four shifts the S-CAT model uses to mark progress from one stage to the next.
- Leadership Commitment
Whether managers set the direction on safety and act on it, or leave it to the safety function.
- Frontline Ownership
Whether workers take personal responsibility, report near misses without fear of blame, and challenge unsafe acts.
- Engagement and Cooperation
Whether staff and contractors help shape safe systems of work rather than simply being told to follow them.
- Consistency
Whether safe behaviour holds when no one senior is on site, and whether a good run breeds complacency.
Individual Report or Company-Wide Assessment
Free
One respondent, one view. It suits a director or safety manager who wants a fast, honest read before deciding whether a deeper look is worth it. The report arrives by email as soon as the survey is complete.
Start the SurveyPaid engagement
We survey people across levels, sites and contractors, then compare the results to show where leadership and the workforce see the same culture differently. Our chartered team leads it and turns the findings into a roadmap to the next stage that a board can act on.
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Before you start
Frequently Asked Questions
Is the Safety Culture Survey really free?
Yes. The individual survey and its report cost nothing, and there is no obligation to buy anything afterwards. Coyle Group emails the report as soon as the survey is complete, so there is no sales call to sit through before reading the result.
How long does the survey take, and who should complete it?
It takes about 5 minutes. It suits anyone with a view of how safety works day to day: directors, health and safety managers, site supervisors and frontline staff. Each person receives an individual report, so several people in the same organisation can take it and compare how leadership and the workforce see the same culture.
How does Coyle Group score the answers?
Each answer is scored against the Coyle Approach, the framework set out in a founder-authored white paper that integrates the UK HSE Safety Culture Maturity Model with the US S-CAT Safety Climate Assessment Tool. The scores combine into a single position on the 5-stage maturity ladder, with the reasoning for each area shown in the report.
Is one survey enough to judge a whole organisation?
An individual report reflects one respondent’s view, which is a useful starting point and often a revealing one. A company-wide evaluation surveys people across levels, sites and contractors, then compares the results. Coyle Group delivers that as a paid engagement led by its chartered team, and the individual report is the quickest way to see whether it is worth doing.
Does the survey apply to my sector and country?
Yes. The survey measures behaviours that hold across sectors, such as whether near misses get reported without blame and whether workers challenge unsafe acts. The scoring draws on both UK HSE and US S-CAT criteria, so it fits organisations in construction, energy, utilities and beyond, across the UK and Ireland.
What happens to the details entered in the form?
Coyle Group uses the name and email address to send the report. The phone number and project details are optional and only help the team tailor a follow-up if one is requested. How the data is stored and used is set out in the privacy policy.
What should we do once the report arrives?
Start with the single next step the report names for the weakest area, because that is where one change moves the overall score most. If moving up a stage needs outside support, Coyle Group’s safety consulting team runs company-wide evaluations, leadership safety workshops and behaviour-based safety programmes built around the same framework.