SAFETY IMPROVEMENT CURVE

Evaluate your C.A.S

Measure your company’s behavioral maturity in relation to occupational health and safety.

Before starting

Discover our recommendations guide and download our full guide.

Why this tool

Recommendations guide

AMD, the Sustainable Maintenance Association, has worked collaboratively with member companies operating in the Northern Province to provide a self-assessment tool for measuring behavioral maturity in relation to occupational health and safety. Developed in response to a request from the industrial company Koniambo Nickel SAS, this tool, called “Assess your C.A.S, Safety Improvement Curve”, enables each company to measure its position on an overall curve based on specific criteria, while drawing on elements from the Bradley Curve*. The “Assess your C.A.S” tool is available directly on the website [www.amd.nc](http://www.amd.nc).

Once this positioning has been established, companies can then engage in a continuous improvement process.

To guide and support them, AMD has created this recommendations guide, once again thanks to the collaborative work of its members and based on their experience and expertise.

This guide is therefore purely informative and does not replace any regulatory text or texts related to the topics covered.

AMD would therefore like to thank all the people from its member companies who took part in developing this tool and guide by meeting regularly over an 18-month period.

* Note: The Bradley Curve, developed in 1994 by Mr. Bradley within the Canadian DuPont research group, makes it easy to understand the changes in mindset and behavior required to develop a genuine, sustainable safety culture. It is divided into four stages of progress in prevention culture. These stages define employees’ level of involvement and mindset with regard to safety.

The selected criteria

The tool is composed of 4 main sections based on the implementation of worksite operations.

Reference framework

Management commitment and policy regarding occupational health and safety

Compliance with regulations

Application of current regulations

Preparation of work activities

Analysis of pre-work elements

Execution of work activities

Actions and behaviors during work activities

These 4 sections are then made up of different themes, 20 in total, composed of criteria and detailed according to 2, 3 or 4 maturity levels in terms of their compliance and application.

THE 4 MATURITY LEVELS

From reactive to interdependent

Reactive

Safety is managed only reactively in response to a problem. You and your teams obey the instructions given and delegate all tasks to the safety manager. Management is not involved, and for you, the zero-accident objective is unrealistic.

Dependent

Management is indeed committed, but checks and task analyses are still carried out by supervisors or safety managers. Even when trained, you and your teams act safely out of fear or discipline; the zero-accident objective remains a dream.

Independent

Commitment to safety is personal; it is both a personal and company value. You and your teams look after yourselves, and zero accidents becomes an objective.

Interdependent

Safety is a mindset for you and your teams, both individually and collectively. Responsibility is shared: you look after yourselves and others, and take pride in doing so. Zero accidents is a choice.

How the tool works

Enter your information

Company name and email address to get started.

Answer the 20 themes

Expand the options and choose your answers for each criterion.

Get your score

An overall score between 31 and 106 points — or 18 to 65 without employees — indicating your maturity level.

From the website www.amd.nc, the user selects the “Assess your C.A.S” link directly on the homepage and accesses a form.

After filling in the company name and email address fields, the user expands the different options for each of the 20 themes before obtaining an overall score between 31 and 106 points, with 31 corresponding to the lowest level, reactive, and 106 to the highest level, interdependent.

For a company with no employees, the overall score ranges from 18 to 65 points.

The recommendations

This guide provides, criterion by criterion, recommendations in the form of proposed actions and/or templates to support the company in moving from one level to the next.

By progressing on each of the criteria, the company will therefore improve its overall maturity and approach to occupational safety.

These recommendations are provided for information purposes only and are not exhaustive.

Note: Some themes include only one criterion.