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Know where your safety culture stands and what to improve next
Gain a clear view of your strengths, identify opportunities for improvement and prioritise actions that will have the greatest business impact with the IOSH business assurance tool.
Is your safety culture helping your business thrive?
Research highlighted in IOSH's Safety culture comes of age white paper shows that major investment firms are evaluating factors such as injury rates, employee satisfaction and workforce wellbeing as indicators of organisational strength.
At the same time, many organisations are strengthening supplier due diligence processes and expecting evidence of health and safety maturity from the businesses they work with.
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Strong safety culture is no longer simply about compliance
Businesses face pressure from:
- regulators
- investors
- customers
- employees
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When safety is embedded into everyday decision-making
Organisations are better positioned to:
- reduce risk
- improve resilience
- strengthen employee engagement
- demonstrate business leadership
Only 1 in 3 organisations rated themselves highly mature
Only around one-third of participating organisations achieved an overall maturity rating of Proactive or Integrated. Do you know where your organisation stands, and could there be opportunities to strengthen your safety culture?
Discover in our latest whitepaper:
- why cultural maturity matters
- how leading organisations measure progress
- the role of governance, systems and people.
Know where to focus your efforts
Many organisations have strong health and safety foundations in place, but knowing where to focus effort and investment for the greatest impact can be challenging.
The IOSH business assurance tool helps you move beyond assumptions by providing a clearer picture of your organisation's safety culture maturity, highlighting strengths and areas for development.
- Identify hidden risks
Uncover gaps in governance, systems, behaviours and organisational culture that may not be visible through traditional health and safety metrics alone. - Prioritise actions with the greatest impact
Focus time, effort and investment on the areas most likely to improve performance, strengthen culture and reduce organisational risk. - Build a stronger business case for investment
Use evidence-based insights and maturity data to support decision-making, secure stakeholder buy-in and demonstrate the value of improvement initiatives. - Measure progress with confidence
Track cultural maturity over time, monitor leading indicators and demonstrate how improvement activities are contributing to organisational goals.
Measure what matters and focus improvement where it will have the greatest impact
The benefits of the IOSH business assurance tool:
- Benchmark your current maturity
Understand where your organisation performs well and where gaps may be limiting progress. - Turn insight into action
Receive clear recommendations that help prioritise improvement efforts. - Measure progress over time
Track changes in your OSH culture and demonstrate continuous improvement. - Support better decision-making
Give leaders evidence-based insights to guide investment and strategic planning. - Build confidence with stakeholders
Generate credible evidence of your commitment to safety, health and wellbeing.
Three pillars of a strong OSH culture
The IOSH Safety Culture Maturity Model assesses organisations across three core pillars that influence long-term occupational safety and health performance. Together, these areas provide a structured framework for understanding cultural maturity and identifying opportunities for improvement.
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Governance and leadership
How leaders set direction, demonstrate commitment and establish accountability.
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Systems and processes
How policies, controls and ways of working support consistent safety performance.
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People and culture
How employees engage with safety and how behaviours, beliefs and values shape everyday decisions.
Your journey from assessment to certification
Completing the assessment gives you a clear picture of your organisation's current occupational safety and health cultural maturity. The next step is understanding what the results mean and how to use them to drive improvement.
Using the IOSH business assurance tool, you can measure progress over time, focus on the areas that need the most attention and build a stronger safety culture with confidence.
Your assessment helps you to:
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Step 1: Assess
Establish a baseline understanding of your organisation's OSH cultural maturity through the self-assessment platform.
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Step 2: Improve
Use your results to prioritise improvements and strengthen areas that will have the greatest impact. Continue updating your assessment to measure progress over time.
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Step 3: Certify
When you're ready, choose to pursue IOSH business assurance certification to gain independent recognition of your organisation's commitment to occupational safety and health maturity.
Business assurance certification in action
As one of the first organisations to achieve IOSH business assurance certification, footwear manufacturer Changshin demonstrated a clear commitment to strengthening their occupational safety and health culture. The IOSH business assurance tool (BAT) played a key role in helping the organisation assess its maturity, identify opportunities for improvement and demonstrate meaningful progress.
Their achievement highlights how organisations can use the framework to build trust, strengthen governance and show leadership in safety culture.
Grace Ko • Assistant Director (RSM), Changshin
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"We make our products by hand and the safety of our workers is more important than anything else. IOSH's business assurance certification process helped us to identify small areas which are easy to miss and where we can improve our safety culture. IOSH certification is proof of our commitment to worker safety and gives confidence to our customers."
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Take the next step towards safety culture maturity
Speak with our team to see how the IOSH Business assurance tool can help you measure maturity, prioritise improvements and build a stronger safety culture.