After a competitive process, Prairie Research Associates Inc. was awarded the contract to undertake a review of the Safety Climate Tool used by the WCB to gather information from workers, supervisors and leaders to assess the safety climate of a workplace. The project undertook a literature review of safety climate and culture and 29 questions were selected for testing in two focus groups that comprised 20 participants from different industries. Based on feedback from the focus groups, the safety climate tool was revised and tested in two workplaces, Weststeel and Manitoba Harvest.
The survey was piloted in three other workplaces. The new survey tool has been developed and is designed to streamline data collection, diagnose safety issues in individual workplaces and compare the safety performance of workplaces surveyed.
Since embarking on the Safety Climate Survey Tool project, SAFE Work Manitoba has begun work on a number of different projects related to implementing Manitoba’s Five Year Plan for Workplace Injury and Illness Prevention. The safety climate survey is being considered as a tool to be used in a number of different SAFE Work Manitoba initiatives including safety certification.