What this check covers

This free check looks at safety leadership through behaviour rather than words. Nine questions ask whether leaders visibly protect the safety standard when it costs time or output, whether they spend time where the work is done and listen rather than only inspect, whether people who raise bad news are thanked and taken seriously, whether work can be stopped without punishment, whether maintenance, staffing and training are funded before an incident forces it, whether managers follow the same rules they expect of others, whether leaders ask about control effectiveness and overdue risk rather than only injury statistics, whether they are accountable for unresolved system risks and not only employee behaviour, and whether they create conditions for honest learning before deciding on discipline. There are no separately flagged safety-critical questions. It is not tied to a single regulation. It is written for senior and operational leaders and for the safety professionals who advise them. Employees learn priorities from decisions, not slogans, and this check is about the decisions.