Jenkins Research Institute · Independent voluntary survey
Collection open
Safety climate.
Across industries.
Understanding how participating people experience safety at work, using NOSACQ-50 and the NAICS industry framework.
Current collection: 2026-Q4 · Calendar quarters in Eastern time
Adults at U.S. workplaces · Official English 2019 · 50 items · 7 dimensions
The question
How is safety experienced in everyday work?
This survey explores perceptions of safety priorities, participation, fairness and learning among participating workers and leaders. Its purpose is to identify questions for dialogue and improvement, with understandable grouped findings returned to the public.
The optional citizenship question explores differences between workers with and without U.S. citizenship and possible gaps in support to investigate. It does not ask immigration status, work authorization, nationality or documents. Differences alone cannot establish that a community is underserved; industry, role, selection and the current English-only coverage limit interpretation.
This is separate from JRI Study 001: Human Performance within ANSI/ASSP Z10. The owner has identified this as an independent JRI project, separate from doctoral research, university resources and federal funding. That statement is not an independent regulatory determination.
Workplace context
Choose the industry that fits the work unit.
Use the main activity of the employer’s work establishment, rather than your personal job title. Contractors should describe their own employer’s work unit. A sector page supplies a starting point; you may change it or keep the industry unknown. Classification uses 2022 U.S. NAICS.
Choose your industry context
A sector page preselects its sector. Choose a more specific industry if you know it, or keep the broader sector.
This directory selector does not submit a response, update your company profile or give research consent.
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Classify the employer’s work establishment, rather than an individual occupation. Change the sector if your work unit belongs elsewhere. A classification does not establish regulatory applicability.
Industry labels organize responses; they do not establish regulatory applicability. The public questionnaire does not collect employer names, worksite codes or exact locations. We therefore cannot verify how many distinct workplaces a group of respondents represents.
NOSACQ-50
Preserve the instrument. Keep added context separate.
The questionnaire uses the 50 items in the official English 2019 version, in their original order and with the four-point response scale. You may skip an item or leave without submitting. The optional context categories—worker/leader role, workplace size, tenure, employment arrangement, shift and an optional broad U.S. citizenship question—sit outside the instrument. We do not collect birth year, gender or open comments.
Analysis follows NFA’s scoring instructions: reverse the specified items, compute eligible person-level dimension means, then average those means. Exclude a person’s dimension if fewer than half its items were answered. A missing answer is never zero.
Open the voluntary questionnaire →How this supports ANSI/ASSP Z10
NOSACQ-50 can supply worker-perception evidence to an occupational health and safety management system. The map below shows JRI’s proposed application to ANSI/ASSP Z10.0-2019. Z10 does not prescribe this questionnaire, and completing it does not satisfy a clause.
| NOSACQ-50 dimension, summarized | Supporting Z10 clauses | How it helps, and what remains necessary |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Management commitment | 5.1, 9.1, 10.1 | Explore whether leadership priorities and available support are experienced consistently. Employer evidence: Leadership decisions, resources, worker discussions and checks of actual conditions. |
| 2. Worker empowerment | 5.2, 6.1 | Explore whether people feel able to influence safety decisions. Employer evidence: Participation arrangements, accessible ways to raise concerns and documented responses. |
| 3. Fair treatment | 5.1, 5.2, 9.5 | Explore trust in how safety concerns and mistakes are handled. Employer evidence: Fair review processes, protected dialogue and follow-through on reported concerns. |
| 4. Worker commitment | 5.2, 7.3 | Explore perceptions of shared responsibility and cooperation. Employer evidence: Worker involvement, communication records and observation of the work system. |
| 5. Risk priorities | 6.2, 8.2, 9.1 | Use reported risk tolerance or production pressure to frame questions about work conditions. Employer evidence: Task and exposure assessment, workload/resource decisions and separate control verification. |
| 6. Communication and learning | 7.3, 9.5 | Explore whether people exchange information, learn and trust co-workers. Employer evidence: Accessible feedback, learning discussions and evidence that lessons reach the work. |
| 7. Confidence in safety arrangements | 9.1, 10.1, 10.2 | Explore whether organized safety efforts are perceived as useful. Employer evidence: Independent evaluation of processes, leadership decisions and verified follow-up. |
Follow the finding through the management system
| Process | Z10 clauses | Application |
|---|---|---|
| Context | 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 | Define the work unit, industry, language and people whose experience is being described. |
| Planning | 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4 | Turn eligible findings into selected objectives with owners, resources and dates. |
| Communication and records | 7.3, 7.4 | Return understandable findings and retain the approved method and report versions. |
| Evaluation | 9.1 | Interpret the seven dimensions with coverage, missingness and uncertainty visible. |
| Action and learning | 9.4, 9.5 | Discuss conditions, act on priorities, verify the result and report back to workers. |
| Leadership review | 10.1, 10.2 | Review evidence, allocate resources and track decisions through follow-up. |
This is an editorial alignment, not a clause audit or conformity assessment. Framework headings were checked against ANSI’s published preview on October 26, 2026; a full licensed-clause and independent technical review remains pending. Survey scores do not directly verify safeguards, demonstrate competence or establish shared group climate. Use the complete standard and workplace evidence when assessing conformance.
Before choosing
Transparent about the project and its limits.
Read or print the complete participant information. Consent notice: JRI-NOSACQ-consent-v3.
Who can participate?
Adults aged 18 or older currently working at U.S. workplaces, including workers and leaders, regardless of citizenship. Only the official English version is implemented at launch. No account, payment or company connection is required.
Voluntary choice, risks and benefits
There is no compensation or promised personal benefit. You may decline, skip items or stop before submitting. JRI does not make account access, purchases or ordinary services conditional on participation. Questions may be uncomfortable, and rare combinations may create identification risk. Answer privately and do not let a supervisor collect or watch your answers.
What is retained, and who can access it?
Research responses retain listed categorical context, an optional sensitive U.S. citizenship category, answers or blanks, instrument/consent versions, collection quarter, date, a random reference, integrity/withdrawal hashes and expiry. The optional company counter separately retains a protected account hash, a different secret-derived proof, company connection, quarter, notice version and coarse expiry; no name, email, answer or response reference is stored there. The research response does not carry account, company, counter or invitation identifiers. Todd administers private research records; hosting personnel may have technical access. Employers have no individual-response or participation-list interface. After submitting, a connected employee may separately authorize a protected company participation count; that counter is not attached to the research answers.
Technical hosting logs may process network addresses and request times. A daily network hash is used for rate limits, expires after 48 hours and is removed during maintenance. Absolute anonymity is not promised. See the complete notice for processors, retention and confidentiality limits.
Withdrawal and retention
Copy the private receipt shown when you submit. Use it to remove a retained response. We cannot recover it by name or email. Already published grouped findings cannot be individually recalled. Responses become ineligible for analysis after 730 days and are deleted by daily retention maintenance; service interruptions may delay physical deletion.
Independence, sharing and commercial interests
Todd also offers safety products, training and jSMS services. This interest is disclosed; it must not determine findings, participation or access to individual answers. Raw responses will not be sold or provided to employers. This consent does not authorize transfer to NFA’s international database or unrelated future research.
NFA permits academic and commercial instrument use with attribution. Use does not confer official consultant status, endorsement or validation of JRI’s application.
No independent review; questions and concerns
There is currently no independent IRB, ethics committee or independent participant-rights office overseeing this project. No approval or exemption determination is claimed. The researcher administers concerns through JRI’s research contact. Do not send answers or sensitive employee information through the general inquiry form.
AI assistance supported drafting and implementation. The methods and application have not received independent technical review. Collection may be paused if scientific, privacy or ethical concerns arise.
Visiting a page, receiving an invitation or belonging to a company is not research consent. The questionnaire requires a separate affirmative choice.
Publication plan
Quarterly summaries, with coverage and limits visible.
Each calendar-quarter collection closes at midnight Eastern when the next quarter begins: January 1, April 1, July 1 and October 1. The next survey opens immediately with fresh consent. An unfinished form cannot submit into a closed quarter; an already received response can be safely acknowledged on retry. Please answer once per workplace per quarter. Reviewed research summaries are planned after each quarter, following data-quality and disclosure checks. No results have been released and publication is not automatic.
Reports will state collection dates, recruitment sources, usable dimension counts, missingness, respondent mix and the lack of verified workplace coverage. Thirty usable responses per dimension is an initial JRI numeric-release floor, with additional privacy review. A citizenship comparison requires this floor in each group, a group-comparability assessment and protection against small cells, complementary totals and repeated-release inference. Citizenship is excluded from employer reports and company counters. Earlier versions did not ask it; their missing values will not be treated as noncitizen responses or refusals. It is not a power calculation or an anonymity guarantee. Small or identifying cells and complementary totals must be withheld or combined.
The earlier proposal for a verified five-workplace industry threshold cannot be tested by this identity-free public collection. We will not claim that it has been met. No representative industry estimates, causal conclusions or confidence intervals assuming independent workplaces will be presented. An insufficient-data quarter may produce a methods/participation update instead of scores.
Findings should lead to dialogue, selected actions and checks of actual work. NFA suggests allowing one to two years when repeating a survey to assess interventions; an annual invitation is not proof that sufficient improvement time has passed.
Sources and control
Instrument and methods
- Kines, P., et al. (2011). Nordic Safety Climate Questionnaire (NOSACQ-50): A new tool for diagnosing occupational safety climate. International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics, 41(6), 634–646.
- NFA: Instrument overview · Permission · Official English 2019 · Use guidance.
- U.S. Census Bureau NAICS · Current participant information.