ISA 360 - The Integral Safety Assessment Tool

Four Factors

Purposeful

Purposefulness provides practical guidance and orientation to a person, team or organisation, indicating the direction of change. When people know why they are doing a project or task, they can self-correct when they get off course. Purpose is enacted through shared commitments.

People make commitments to safety explicit and visible, engaging each other in the possibility of, and practices that support everyone going home safe every day. When integrity is broken, it is restored by returning to commitment, rebuilding trust. Leaders engage others to be purposeful, committed, and continuously learning how to improve safe performance.

Caring

Care is regard for the intrinsic value of people, actively providing what is needed to support health, safety and wellbeing. Care is personal, connecting with others based on understanding of how it is and what is needed from their perspective. Regard for others creates an environment where people respect each other and build trust and willingness to say what is true.

Caring springs from care for oneself, ensuring one has the capacities and energy to provide real help. It balances a focus on building strengths with a compassionate drive to address gaps in performance and realise potential.

Curious

Curiosity creates openness to learning how things actually happen in order to improve safe performance. It includes the capacity to suspend what you know, and actively seek out what you don’t know.

Openness means that people are slow to make judgments or to blame people when things go wrong. Inquiry is kept open as long as possible in order to fully understand what happened and to generate lasting change.

People listen to as many diverse perspectives as possible in the time allowed in order to create a more complete picture.

Connecting

Allows us to see how things are related, people seek to understand how roles, teams and functions must integrate to optimize the performance of the whole system.

Connecting is increased when people work together to create models of how the system works and then continually updated as new information is revealed. There is a concerted effort to understand how people close to the work understand the work, updating systems to match how work is actually done.

There is work on the right things at the right time with the right people. There is use of highly intentional and focused approaches that leads to operational discipline and maximises the use of all resources to achieve the purpose.