Assessing and Bridging The Human Performance Gap in Safety for More than 25 Years
Safety Leadership | Culture | Engagement | World-Class Safety
Introducing the Safety Mirror Assess™ – A Proven Measure of Safety Climate and Culture
For more than two decades, David Sarkus International has helped organizations across North America and around the world get a clearer, more honest picture of their safety culture — what could be called the “real story beneath the surface.” One of the most reliable and transformational tools I’ve used to do that is the Safety Mirror Assess™, a research-based, well-validated safety climate survey designed to reveal how your people truly think, feel, and act regarding safety. It reflects the lived experiences of your workers, supervisors, and leaders, providing an authentic “mirror image” of your organization’s strengths and the critical improvement opportunities that may be hiding in plain sight.
Unlike generic surveys that offer shallow insights or focus only on compliance, Safety Mirror Assess™ measures the deeper drivers that shape safety behavior and performance: leadership credibility, trust, communication quality, peer influence, psychological safety, learning culture, perceptions of risk, worker engagement, and front-line ownership. These factors not only predict incidents and serious injuries—they reveal whether your safety efforts are genuinely resonating with your people.
Over the past 20+ years, David Sarkus International administered, refined, and validated this tool across a wide range of industries—manufacturing, oil and gas, construction, utilities, aerospace, energy, transportation, and more. It has been used with thousands of workers, supervisors, and leaders, generating a consistently strong reliability profile and predictive value. Each assessment is followed by a clear, actionable analysis that helps leadership teams understand where they stand today, what is improving, and where targeted interventions will have the greatest impact.
Safety Mirror Assess™ doesn’t just tell you what is happening — it explains why it’s happening and what you can do about it. Organizations often describe the results as a “wake-up call,” a “turning point,” or a “roadmap that finally makes sense.” Because the tool combines quantitative metrics with qualitative insights, it sharpens decision-making, fuels worker engagement, and accelerates cultural growth—especially in environments where preventing serious injuries and fatalities is critical. This work has always been about helping people see the truth more clearly, so they can lead more effectively and send more workers home safe every day. Safety Mirror Assess™ was built for that purpose, and after 20 years of validation and successful application, it remains one of the most powerful culture-improvement tools offered by David Sarkus International. Whether you’re trying to strengthen trust, elevate leadership credibility, reinforce learning behaviors, or reduce SIF exposure, this assessment provides the clarity needed to move forward with confidence.