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Safety Opinion Surveys

Included here are three PDF documents that can be used to carry out opinion surveys among three groups in the organization: safety opinion survey management, safety opinion survey direct supervision and safety opinion survey operational employees. I used these surveys prior to doing safety audits with the International Safety Rating System but they can be used on their own - just to get an impression of how people at different organizational levels feel about the safety efforts of their organization. In particular this can be an eye-opener for management and I have had these experiences where there were quite some differences between how management felt about their safety program and the way the operational employees looked at it.

THE principle of RESISTANCE TO CHANGE

"The greater the departure of any planned change from the accepted ways of the past, the greater the potential resistance by the people involved.