The UGRs® Stock Take

You cannot improve a safety culture you cannot see.

Policies and systems describe how safety should work. The UGRs Stock Take uncovers the unwritten rules that shape how work is really done—especially when speaking up, stopping or reporting is inconvenient.

Discuss a Stock Take

How the Stock Take works

From employee experience to leadership action.

01

Employee experience

People describe how work and safety really happen.

02

UGRs revealed

Shared perceptions and unwritten rules become visible.

03

Sensemaking

Signals, patterns and strengths are brought together.

04

Leader debrief

Steve or Stef helps leaders test the interpretation.

05

Practical next steps

Leaders agree what to protect, challenge and do next.

A proven standard framework provides benchmark perspective. Carefully chosen additional lead-ins can explore an organisation’s own cultural priorities.

What leaders can begin to see

The patterns beneath safety performance.

The Stock Take brings employee meaning alongside the numbers, helping leaders examine cultural conditions rather than relying on a score alone.

01

Speaking up

Where people challenge unsafe behaviour—and where they hold back.

02

Reporting

What gets reported, what does not, and why.

03

Production pressure

How pressure shows up and what it drives.

04

Learning

What helps honest learning—and what gets in the way.

05

Leadership credibility

How leadership choices are experienced on the ground.

06

Frontline & contractors

How different groups experience the same working environment.

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Culture Intelligence Sensemaking Report

Evidence becomes leadership intelligence.

The report brings together scores, recurring employee language, cultural strengths, priority signals and inferred UGRs. It provides a disciplined basis for leadership discussion—not an automated verdict.

  • Employee meaning remains visible alongside the numbers
  • Connections and tensions can be examined
  • Detailed methodology and benchmark data remain confidential
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Steve Simpson facilitating a leadership discussion
Steve Simpson
Stef du Plessis facilitating a leadership discussion
Stef du Plessis

The leader debrief

The report is not the end of the process.

Steve or Stef works directly with leaders to test the meaning, challenge assumptions and decide what happens next—what to protect, what to challenge and where leadership attention will have most leverage.

Designed for consequential environments

When the gap between policy and practice matters.

The Safety UGRs Stock Take is particularly relevant for executives, safety leaders and operational leaders in complex, distributed or high-risk workplaces.

It is designed to support better questions and better decisions—not to replace existing safety systems, investigations or professional safety expertise.

A confidential first conversation

What might your safety culture be teaching people?

Discuss what a Safety UGRs Stock Take could reveal in your organisation.

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