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Holistic Safety Assessments
Safety incidents will keep happening until you understand WHY they occur, WHERE they are most likely to occur, and WHAT hazards are present to prevent the identified hazards. DEKRA Holistic Safety Assessments provide these vital insights along with the power to act on them.
We apply our industry-leading scientific perspectives on Organizational Safety & Reliability and decades of Process Safety expertise to pinpoint your current risk assessment exposures, identify solutions to recognized hazards, and reduce exposure. The resulting roadmap guides you in becoming a Learning Organization that systematically and continuously learns how to identify hazards and safety concerns, implements sustainable control measures, and monitors performance—all attributes of a High-Reliability Organization (HRO) excelling in quality, safety, and efficiency.
Leverage Focused, Scalable Holistic Risk Assessments
Many different elements influence safety risk analysis measures and exposures. It’s more than what you produce, the materials involved, or the activities you engage in. The human factor is critical—how people at all levels behave and identify potential hazards, your underlying organizational culture, and the exposures created by day-to-day work. Additionally, evaluating and documenting employers' safety and health programs is crucial for meeting compliance requirements and ensuring a safe working environment. DEKRA’s targeted risk assessments help you evaluate the full spectrum of safety assessment risk exposure and prioritize workplace hazards with a strategic approach to sustaining countermeasures.
A broad range of assessments
- Catastrophic incident exposure assessments
- Process safety assessments
- Culture diagnostic assessments
- Safety leadership diagnostic assessments
- Serious Injury & Fatality (SIF) assessments for physical hazards and workplace injuries
- Environment, Health, and Safety (EHS) conformance assessments to encourage hygiene practices and avoid biological hazards
- EHS management system gap assessments
Serving these industries and more
- Oil & Gas
- Pharmaceutical and Chemical Hazards
- Power Generation & Distribution
- Paper, Agriculture, & Forestry
- Transportation & Logistics
- Food & Beverage
- Construction & Real Estate
- Consumer Goods
- Industrial Goods
- Aerospace & Defense
- Automotive OEMs
- Healthcare & Medical Devices
Proactively Identify Hazards and Opportunities
DEKRA Holistic Safety Assessments provide valuable, proactive insight for a variety of situations:
- When a safety program and risk control methods are central to your corporate mission or is a specific focus area
- If a management change occurs and new leaders want to understand the current risk analysis state
- As part of M&A or start-up due diligence
- To inform annual budgeting decisions
- To address potentially undocumented vulnerabilities or exposures
- To ensure the working environment is free from hazards that could result in physical harm to employees
Analyze Workplace Injuries and Prevent Reoccurrence
DEKRA Holistic Safety Assessments are also a vital tool for recognize hazards, diagnosing and correcting breakdowns in control risks processes, or addressing health and safety and new needs related to:
- Serious injuries and fatalities (SIFs)
- Catastrophic incidents or "near misses"
- Regulatory compliance, changes or requirements as personal protective equipment for workers
- Awareness of new vulnerabilities due to a major industry accident
A safety culture assessment evaluates the beliefs, behaviors, leadership practices, and organizational systems that influence safety performance. Organizations use safety culture assessments to identify strengths, uncover risks, and prioritize improvement opportunities. A comprehensive organizational safety assessment provides a broader view of how these elements interact.
A safety culture assessment helps organizations understand why safety incidents, near misses, or unsafe behaviors may persist despite existing programs. The results can help leaders make informed decisions about training, leadership development, communication, and risk reduction. A safety leadership assessment can help clarify how leadership behaviors influence these results.
A safety audit typically evaluates compliance with policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements. A safety culture assessment examines the human, organizational, and leadership factors that influence how safety is managed and experienced across the workforce. This broader workplace safety assessment provides insight beyond compliance alone.
A safety maturity assessment measures how advanced an organization's safety practices are across key areas such as leadership, employee engagement, accountability, learning, and continuous improvement.
A safety culture assessment can help identify organizational factors that may contribute to serious injury and fatality risk, including decision-making processes, operational pressures, communication challenges, and workforce engagement. A serious injury and fatality (SIF) assessment can further examine the exposures connected to these risks.
Safety culture assessments are commonly used in manufacturing, energy, utilities, chemical processing, transportation, construction, mining, and other industries where operational risk management is critical. Safety culture consulting can help these industries interpret findings and prioritize improvement opportunities.
Many organizations conduct a safety culture assessment every two to three years or following major organizational changes, acquisitions, leadership transitions, or significant safety events. A safety performance assessment can also be conducted when leaders need updated insight into organizational risk.
Safety culture is typically measured through employee surveys, leadership interviews, focus groups, observations, workshops, and analysis of organizational safety data. A safety culture survey can provide direct insight into employee perceptions, while multiple data sources provide a more complete understanding of safety performance drivers.