Jenkins Research Institute · JRI-NOSACQ-2026-10-26-v1 · Participant information and consent notice, October 26, 2026

Safety climate by industry

Your choice comes first

You may participate if you are 18 or older and currently work at a U.S. workplace. Participation is voluntary, free and separate from accounts, purchases, employer training and ordinary services. An invitation is not consent. You may decline, skip any questionnaire item or leave before submitting. There is no compensation and no promised personal benefit. JRI’s participation policy does not permit employers to make employment benefits or ordinary services conditional on taking part; JRI cannot guarantee how an employer will behave. Answer privately if you choose to participate.

Purpose and procedure

The purpose is to explore how participating workers and leaders experience safety and to identify questions for learning and improvement across industries. Think about one current workplace or work unit throughout. You will see the 50 items from NOSACQ-50 English 2019 in their original order, with four response options. Some items are phrased negatively. You can skip an item. If you wish to refrain from the entire questionnaire, leave without submitting. Completion time has not yet been pilot-tested. Please submit once for the same workplace in a 12-month period, even if you receive several invitations. Without identity or workplace linkage, we cannot reliably detect repeat participants; repeat participation is a reported limitation.

The 50-item instrument is preserved. Additional context questions are separate. This online collection omits the paper form’s optional birth year, gender and comment fields. Only the official English version is currently implemented; we do not present an AI translation as an official language version.

What is collected

The retained response contains the 50 selected answers or blanks; optional NAICS sector and detailed code with the 2022 edition; optional worker/managerial role, broad workplace-size and tenure bands, employment arrangement and shift pattern; consent and instrument versions; submission date and quarter; a random response reference, withdrawal-secret hash, integrity digest and expiry. No names, email addresses, employer names, exact work locations, employee IDs, health details or open comments are requested in the response.

We do not attach account, company or invitation identifiers to answers. Invitations are delivered and administered separately. We do not provide employers with individual research answers or lists of who completed, skipped or declined the survey. Because public participation does not include a verified workplace identifier, distinct-workplace counts and workplace clustering cannot be verified from these responses.

Privacy and foreseeable risks

Questions about leadership and work conditions may feel uncomfortable. Unusual combinations of industry and background categories may still make someone recognizable. Confidentiality cannot be absolute. This is not a guarantee of complete anonymity.

Answers are kept in private research objects, outside ordinary account and company working records. An index contains random object references and expiry dates for retention maintenance, without answers or membership identifiers. Todd Jerome Jenkins administers the research records; authorized hosting/service personnel may have technical access. Ordinary employer and learner accounts have no response-reading interface.

The website runs on ChatGPT Sites and its Cloudflare hosting infrastructure. Technical systems may process network addresses, request times, security information and ordinary website logs. Survey pages and submission routes are excluded from the website’s ordinary analytics-event collection. A daily hash derived from the request network address is used for rate limits; the raw address is not copied into survey records, and these rate-limit records expire after 48 hours and are removed by maintenance. A hash and hosting logs can still create privacy risk. No guarantee about a particular storage country or absolute anonymity is made.

Retention and withdrawal

Responses are excluded from new analysis after 730 days and removed by daily retention maintenance. Temporary service interruptions may delay physical deletion; expired records remain ineligible for analysis. Hosting backup and operational-log retention are controlled by the service providers and are not promised to end at the same instant.

Before sending, your browser creates a private receipt. Copy it when shown. The withdrawal page uses this receipt to remove the retained individual response. We cannot recover a lost receipt by name or email, because those identifiers are not attached to the response. Already published grouped findings cannot be recalled one response at a time. No survey drafts are saved in browser storage; losing or reloading an unfinished form may lose its contents.

Reporting and data use

We plan reviewed quarterly summaries, not automatic publication of raw data. NOSACQ-50 is scored as seven 1–4 dimensions with specified reverse coding and missing-answer rules. There is no individual score, compliance percentage, employer ranking or automatic judgment of a worker. Public volunteers are a self-selected sample. These responses do not establish shared workgroup climate, representative industry performance, causal effects, or that a safeguard functions.

For any published numeric industry or subgroup cell, the initial JRI minimum is 30 usable responses per dimension plus a disclosure review. Thirty is a reporting floor, not a statistical power calculation or a guarantee of privacy. Suppress or combine small/rare cells and complementary totals. Do not publish detailed crossed background tables by default. Verified distinct-workplace coverage is unavailable in this public collection; we will say so, will not claim that a five-workplace threshold has been met, and will not present confidence intervals that assume independently sampled workplaces. The first release may be a methods/participation update if safe, interpretable dimension estimates are unavailable.

Only grouped findings and methods are intended for public release. Individual response downloads will not be given to employers or sold. No transfer to NFA’s international database or unrelated future reuse is authorized by this notice; those would need separate disclosure and an appropriate consent basis. Results and practical follow-up decisions should be accessible to participating workers.

Independence and commercial interests

Todd Jerome Jenkins also offers safety products, training and jSMS services. This financial interest is disclosed. Purchases and company relationships must not determine findings, participation or access to individual answers. This survey is separate from JRI Study 001, doctoral research, university resources and federal funding, as stated by the project owner. That statement is not an independently issued legal or regulatory determination.

Questions, concerns and changes

Contact JRI about methods, withdrawal difficulties, participant rights or privacy. Do not send your answers or sensitive employee information through the general inquiry form. The researcher handles these concerns; there is currently no independent research-ethics complaints office for this project. The study may be paused for privacy, scientific or ethical concerns. Material changes require a new notice and consent version before new collection; previous consent does not silently cover broader use.

Sources and consent

NOSACQ-50 was developed by the Nordic occupational-safety research network, with NFA hosting its official versions. Official English 2019 questionnaire · Permission for academic/commercial use · Kines et al. (2011), original instrument-development article. Use does not imply NFA endorsement. AI assistance supported implementation and drafting; no independent technical or ethics review is claimed.

The online consent requires an affirmative eligibility confirmation and your freely selected agreement to this information. Reading this page, creating an account, receiving an invitation or belonging to a company does not give consent.