To achieve sustainable safety performance, you need more than just statistics and metrics. You need to understand how work actually happens. JMJ’s Integral Assessment reveals what’s enabling safe performance, what’s constraining it and why.
When safety doesn’t reflect the culture you expect
In many organizations, safety is well managed through metrics, systems, and compliance. These provide structure and visibility and only tell part of the story.
Organizations may believe they have a strong safety culture, until a serious incident, near miss, or recurring challenges reveal a gap between expectation and reality. That gap is not always visible in metrics or reporting, it shows up in how safety is actually delivered in day‑to‑day work.
In some cases, it becomes clear after a serious incident. In others, there is no single event, just a sense that what is being reported does not fully reflect what is happening in practice.
At this point, the question shifts to how do we improve safety. It becomes what is shaping how safety is actually experienced and delivered across your organization.
Metrics and compliance can take you so far and they don’t show what’s really driving safety performance.
What is an Integral Safety Assessment?
The outcome is a clear, shared understanding of what is shaping safety across your organization so decisions about what to address next are grounded in how work actually happens.
JMJ’s Integral Safety Assessment evaluates the factors shaping safety performance, including leadership, culture, systems, and ways of working. It reveals what is enabling safety performance, where it is constrained, and how safety is actually experienced and delivered in practice.
What we assess
Every organization operates within its own culture, pressures, and ways of working. To understand what’s really shaping your safety culture, we look beyond metrics to examine how leadership, culture and systems come together in practice.
This assessment is the starting point of your IIF™ NextGen transformation journey. It gives leaders a clear understanding of today’s reality and the opportunities for creating safer, healthier, high‑performing workplaces.
Key questions to explore
Are you confident in your safety culture?
Do you know what’s truly driving performance beyond the metrics?
Are people speaking up and reporting near misses and hazards without fear?
Is safety consistently embedded in decision-making at all levels, from the boardroom to the frontline?
How effective is your safety leadership?
Are leaders actively engaging with employees and modeling safe behaviors?
Are you operating as a learning culture or one that defaults to blame?
How well does your safety culture align with overall business goals?
What we explore
We focus on how safety is both experienced and delivered, not just what’s reported.
The reality of safety in practice and how work is carried out day to day
The perceptions and mindsets that influence daily decisions and actions
Your organization’s leadership behaviors and preferences
Opportunities for a breakthrough in safety performance
Our approach
Understanding safety requires more than analysis. It requires seeing how leadership, teams, and systems operate together in real conditions. We don’t offer generic solutions or checklists. Our assessment process is designed to uncover the true state of your safety culture across roles, sites, and leadership levels. It combines human insight with Discover, our diagnostic and analytical suite within Transformation Cloud™ to provide a connected view of your organization’s strengths, risks, and opportunities.
Discover: JMJ’s diagnostic suite
Our online diagnostics, delivered through Transformation Cloud™, provide real-time dashboards to visualize trends and identify areas of focus. They provide a consistent view across departments, divisions, and roles, bringing together qualitative and quantitative insights to go beyond surface metrics and enable rapid, large-scale analysis.
At the core of this approach are three proprietary diagnostics:
DEV:Q™ Leadership Profile Assessment
Captures narrative feedback from the workforce and analyzes it to surface themes, sentiment, and patterns, revealing how people really think and feel about safety, leadership, and communication.
Safety Perception Diagnostic (SPD)
A structured, quantitative diagnostic that benchmarks the maturity of your safety culture across key safety drivers such as leadership, trust, learning and communication, giving you a clear, data‑backed view of where your culture is strong and where deeper attention is needed.
Safety Leadership Characteristics (SLC)
Provides practical insight into leadership preferences and behaviors using our proprietary 12 Characteristics of Safety Leadership, helping leaders understand how their style influences safety and team culture, providing a strong foundation for targeted development
Human insight and on the ground observation
Technology alone doesn’t tell the whole story. It shows what’s happening but not always why it’s happening. To understand what is shaping safety, we combine our diagnostics with direct observation and engagement:
Interviews with employees at every level
Site visits to observe how work actually gets done, including the interaction between people and systems
Review HSE systems to understand where policies support or hinder safe performance
Observation of leadership behaviors and decision‑making in practice
This provides a grounded understanding of the current reality — and the factors influencing and shaping safety.
Our diagnostic framework
We structure our insights around four core focus areas:
How: Uncovering mindsets
We explore how individual mindsets contribute to team and organizational culture.
What: Identifying perceptions
We examine what employees believe about safety and leadership, and how this shapes behavior.
Why: Exploring underlying themes
We dig into the drivers of those perceptions, including leadership alignment and communication.
Risks: Highlighting operational gaps
We identify systemic risks and cultural blind spots that may hinder performance or safety outcomes.
Proven results
What organizations gain from working with us:
Safety risks and cultural blind spots revealed
Leadership assumptions, decision‑making patterns, and cultural norms that unintentionally create risk are clearly surfaced and understood
A clear view of the day-to-day safety culture
A detailed understanding of of how leaders and teams actually think, decide, and behave in real work
Visibility of gaps between work plans and reality
Where work as planned breaks down in practice, and the conditions that increase risk, are made visible
Leadership alignment and ownership strengthened
Senior leaders are aligned on the issues that matter and take clear ownership of what happens next.
A clear, evidence-based path forward
A practical, tailored roadmap provides clear direction on how to reduce exposure and build capability over time
Focus where it matters most
Time and investment are directed to the areas with the greatest potential impact on safety and performance
Explore our solutions
Our solutions are tailored to build the culture and leadership required for sustained high-performance, adapting to the realities of different operating environments whilst making performance reliable under pressure and is sustained over time.
Creating a culture that supports safety and performance is a long-term journey. The assessment phase helps you understand where you are today and what’s needed to move forward with clarity and confidence.
Contact us to learn how we can help you build a culture where safety, learning, and performance go hand in hand.
Let’s Start the Conversation
Change starts here. Let’s talk about how JMJ can help solve your safety and performance challenges.