The Organizational Safety Effectiveness Survey (OSES) is a copyrighted survey developed by Human Factors Associates, Inc. OSES provides a means for an organization’s workers and managers to communicate safety concerns, to judge the effectiveness of ongoing safety programs, and to rate several important areas of safety and organizational performance. Employee’s ratings and comments are submitted anonymously, and embedded procedures ensure the confidentiality of results in any organization and its associated work centers.
Each OSES can be adapted to fit your organization and work environment. The adaptation process includes scheduling interviews with key personnel involved in the administration, management, and execution of work at the facilities that will participate in the survey. The resulting tailored survey is constructed from the validated OSES baseline survey instrument, with consideration to inputs from your organization’s managers and workers, and incorporation of any pertinent information or issues related to specific hazards and risks identified in your organization.
HFA also has developed the High-Reliability Organizational Effectiveness Survey, referred to as – HROES®. This is a survey derived from 12 years of research and application of OSES. HROES® was specifically designed to provide more extensive assessment of organizational reliability, and to employ the survey process in a wider application, for such high-risk industries as Banking and Financial Services and Insurance Risk, and other high-consequence industries that might risk organizational degradation and failure.
You may also view an online example of the web survey at: OSES Demonstration Site
Human Factors Engineering and Training Development Services
In addition to their safety related expertise, Dr. Ciavarelli, and his Associates, have extensive experience in the traditional fields of Human Factors Engineering, Advanced Systems Design and Development, Test and Evaluation, and Simulation Training. A variety of methodologies that HFA can apply during engineering design, development and evaluation include:
- Systems Analysis – system requirements and advanced conceptual design
- Operational Mission and User Task Analysis
- Human – machine interaction and crew communication analysis
- Training Requirements Analysis, and
- Human Performance Measurement and Training Effectiveness Evaluation