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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.
Advancing Organizational Safety Through Artificial Intelligence
Human Factors Associates (HFA) is pleased to announce an important milestone in the development of OSES-AI, an AI-enhanced approach to assessing organizational safety effectiveness.
HFA has partnered with a Silicon Valley-based artificial intelligence firm to develop an innovative demonstration prototype. We are pleased to report that the initial baseline prototype has been completed, guided by Dr. Anthony Ciavarelli’s OSES-AI Use Case and Functional Design Framework.
What makes OSES-AI different?
OSES-AI is being designed to provide independent, anonymous, evidence-grounded assessments of organizational safety management effectiveness, informed by the experiences and perceptions of the workforce.
The system is intended to help organizations:
- Identify emerging risks — Detect organizational warning signs and patterns that may precede serious safety incidents.
- Evaluate safety climate and culture — Assess workforce perceptions of leadership commitment, safety practices, and management effectiveness.
- Provide evidence-grounded insights — Explain the information and reasoning supporting important safety findings.
- Prioritize corrective actions — Help leadership identify opportunities for targeted safety improvements.
- Track improvement over time — Evaluate whether corrective interventions strengthen safety climate and safety management processes.
Our goal is to combine established human factors research with emerging AI capabilities to help organizations recognize safety vulnerabilities before they contribute to serious incidents or accidents.
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