From April there will be a new way of doing a SafePlus self-assessment.
The current SafePlus online tool is at the end of its life and would require significant resource to rebuild.
It is being replaced with downloadable questions – in multiple languages – that can be used much more flexibly as a paper-based survey or in any online survey tool (at the user’s cost).
Registered users of the online tool have been contacted to let them know that no new assessments using the current tool can be started after 11 April 2025.
Those who have run a previous assessment using the tool can access their data and reports until 12 June 2025. After 12 June 2025, the personal data put into the tool by users will be destroyed, to meet Privacy Act requirements.
See our FAQs for more information(external link) including data export instructions.
From April the survey questions and a results calculator will be available to download from the SafePlus section of the WorkSafe website. Businesses can use the questions either as a paper-based survey, or in their own choice of online survey platform.
They are the same questions currently used in the online tool. The questions were developed using the SafePlus framework. They focus on three key areas of health and safety – leadership, worker engagement, and risk management.
Businesses can use their workers’ responses to the questions to calculate a SafePlus health and safety maturity rating in the three key areas, and they can repeat the survey to see their progress year on year.
WorkSafe will not have access to the data. The questions and results calculator are downloadable files, so the business using them will save them in their own system. This means all data will remain with the business itself.
Providing the survey questions for businesses to pick up and use means more flexibility to run their own surveys using their own choice of survey tool. The new way of providing the survey questions also means we can incorporate user-requested enhancements to provide a paper-based option for completing surveys and translation of the questions into multiple languages.
The survey questions and results calculator will be free to use. However, WorkSafe will no longer provide the survey functionality, so if a business decides to use an online survey tool then that may have some cost to them to use.
Onsite assessments by independent SafePlus assessors are also available.
You can find out more on the SafePlus section of the WorkSafe website
We aim to make it easy for businesses to do regular self-assessments of their health and safety environment to identify areas they can improve.
We would like to thank everyone who has used the SafePlus online tool to help keep people healthy and safe at work.
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