Instruments

The instruments below were developed under WP3 of the project (see the overview) and piloted with volunteer enterprises before publication. They are designed to be used by non-specialists — a manager, an HR officer or a designated safety representative — without external consultancy.

Workplace Safety–Productivity Self-Assessment

A structured checklist enterprises complete in around 30–45 minutes, scoring current practice across five domains: physical environment, ergonomics, incident reporting, staff turnover linked to working conditions, and management commitment. The output is a simple scorecard highlighting the domains with the largest gap between current practice and recommended practice.

Psychosocial Risk Indicator

A shorter instrument focused on workload, role clarity, and manager–employee communication — factors ANACT's research links closely to both wellbeing and output quality. It is intended to complement the physical-risk-focused self-assessment above rather than replace it.

Cost-of-Inaction Estimator

A simple worksheet helping enterprises put an approximate figure on absenteeism, turnover and lost output attributable to unaddressed safety issues, so that the business case for investment in prevention is expressed in terms managers already use for other decisions.

How the instruments were validated

Each instrument went through a piloting round with partner-country enterprises before being finalised, as described in the project overview. Feedback from piloting shaped both the scoring approach and the language used, so that instruments read as workplace tools rather than academic questionnaires.

Using the instruments alongside the guides

The instruments identify where a workplace's practice needs attention; the guides and leaflets then explain what to do about each finding in practical terms. Enterprises new to the topic may prefer to start with the guides before running a self-assessment.