Benchmark
Begin with a proven, standard safety framework supported by international comparison data.
The UGRs® Stock Take for workplace safety
Reveal the safety culture
behind the system.
A distinctive diagnostic that uncovers the prevailing unwritten rules shaping risk decisions, reporting, speaking up and learning.
Why it is different
People describe reality.
They do not just rate it.
Traditional surveys can tell you whether people agree with a statement. The UGRs Stock Take asks people to complete carefully designed sentence starters in their own words.
A consistent core first establishes the current state of safety culture. It then examines contributing cultural conditions—including how people are treated, whether difficult issues can be discussed, openness to better ways of working, and cooperation within and across teams.
Because the core framework is standard, organisations gain international benchmark perspective as well as the detail behind the results. Optional additional lead-ins can explore priorities unique to the organisation.
One diagnostic. Two connected views.
What is our safety culture—and what cultural conditions are shaping it?
Benchmark the core. Understand the context. Focus the action.
How the Stock Take works
Consistent enough to benchmark.
Flexible enough to explore.
Extend
Add optional organisation-specific lead-ins where leaders need to explore an additional cultural priority.
Reveal
Invite people to describe how safety really works and assess whether each experience helps or hinders.
Sensemaking Report
Bring scores, employee language, priority signals, cross-cutting patterns, strengths and inferred UGRs into one structured view.
Leader debrief
Work with Steve or Stef to test interpretations, challenge assumptions, choose priorities and agree practical next steps.
The Culture Intelligence Sensemaking Report
The evidence,
made discussable.
The report sits between measurement and action. It helps leaders see the strongest signals, examine how issues connect and protect cultural strengths before deciding what to prioritise.
Lead-in intelligence
Scores, recurring language and employee experience are brought together so the meaning behind the numbers remains visible.
Priority signals and patterns
Potential areas of severity, consequence and leverage are surfaced for discussion—not presented as predetermined organisational priorities.
UGRs, strengths and employee voice
Helpful and unhelpful cultural patterns are inferred for leadership review alongside the strengths that should be deliberately protected.
Questions before action
Workshop questions and leadership guidance support disciplined sensemaking before action plans, training or broad announcements begin.
Illustrative report preview
See how evidence becomes
leadership intelligence.
The fictional example gives a brief sense of the output without revealing client data, standard lead-ins, benchmarks or the detailed methodology.
View the illustrative report
Illustrative example - not client data.
What leaders receive
Not just findings.
Direction.
The prevailing safety UGRs
A direct view of the shared beliefs influencing physical and psychological safety.
International benchmark perspective
Context for understanding how the standard safety framework compares across organisations.
Employee and frontline language
Recurring phrases and experiences that make risk, silence and helpful norms tangible.
A Culture Intelligence Sensemaking Report
Structured intelligence on priority signals, cross-cutting patterns, inferred UGRs, employee voice and cultural strengths.
A leader debrief
A facilitated session with Steve or Stef to test interpretations, challenge assumptions and choose priorities.
Practical next-step planning
Clear priorities: what to protect, what to challenge and where leadership attention is needed.
The value of visibility
The Stock Take shows leaders where the safety system is supported by the culture—and where unwritten rules quietly work against it.
Begin with the culture beneath the system
What is your workplace
really teaching people about safety?
Start a conversation with Steve Simpson and Stef du Plessis about the unwritten rules shaping safety in your organisation.
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