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5 January 2010

Taking safety to the next level

Snap Surveys helps the Health and Safety Laboratory make the workplace safer.

Snap Surveys has been working with the Health and Safety Laboratory (HSL) to streamline the application of the HSL Safety Climate Tool. The questionnaire based survey tool is designed to explore attitudes and perceptions to health and safety within organisations to enable them to benchmark and improve their safety performance.

The previous paper based version of the survey had over 800 industry users. The Health and Safety Laboratory wanted to develop the Safety Climate Tool as an easy to use survey package combining a questionnaire and pre-set analysis for paper surveys and to subsequently put the survey online to increase reach.

HSL has been a Snap Surveys customer since 2006 and approached us in November 2008 as a software partner for this project. For over 10 years Snap Surveys has produced a range of template questions as part of the survey software. Developing complete template surveys is a natural extension of this which led to the launch of Snap Solo, our white label survey template product.

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HSL Director Peter Davies says,
“We approached Snap Surveys because we felt Snap Solo would provide a robust platform for the Safety Climate Tool with the flexibility to cost effectively tailor the software to our specific requirements. We are now discussing further surveys that we can roll-out in a similar way”.

The HSL team led by Caroline Sugden has worked closely with Snap Surveys developer and research services teams to launch the refined and updated Safety Climate Tool which is now available direct from HSL on CD Rom.

Snap's Managing Director Dr Steve Jenkins comments,
“We have enjoyed working with the team at HSL and are very excited about this new venture as it marks the completion of our first Snap Solo collaboration.”

Snap Surveys are now able to offer Snap Solo, our white label survey template product, to any organisation who has a requirement to develop a survey or range of surveys for their market sector. We are already in discussion with a number of organisations involved in healthcare, staff surveys and financial services.

(ENDS)

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Snap Surveys founded in 1981 by Peter Wills and Dr Steve Jenkins provides a full range of research services in the UK, US and Europe. Snap Survey Software is widely used in private and public sector organisations including health, local authorities and education. Snap Surveys provide a comprehensive range of research services, from questionnaire design to analysis and training. www.snapsurveys.com/solo

Snap Surveys press contact: Kari-Astri Davies, Marketing & Communications, karidavies@snapsurveys.com
Tel: +44 (0)1454 280 858.

The Health and Safety Laboratory was originally set up as HSE’s in-house research and testing facility and continues to fulfil that original function, helping HSE deliver the UK Government’s strategy for improving health and safety.

HSL’s expertise and specialist services are also available to public and private sector clients in the UK and overseas. In 2007/8, independently sourced (i.e. non-HSE) business accounted for 20 per cent of the organisation’s total revenue.

For further information, please visit www.hsl.gov.uk

Media representatives interested in visiting the Laboratory and/or interviewing members of the senior management team should contact the Bell Pottinger team on the number below:

Press contacts: Debbie Garritty/Heather Butler
Bell Pottinger North (01625 506444)
dgarritty@bellpottingernorth.co.uk