Safety culture maturity models in occupational safety and health: An updated scoping review

This scoping review provided an overview of the state of the art on safety culture maturity models in OSH. This may help OSH professionals as well as researchers identifying current gaps in terms of development, application, and assessment of these models in occupational setting. At the same time, it can support organisations in the selection of the appropriate tools to assess safety culture maturity levels at work. Further research is needed to validate existing and newly developed tools aimed at assessing safety culture maturity level allowing comparisons between organisations. Future studies can expand the sample scope by increasing the geographical area covered including countries with different economic levels (e.g. low income countries) and by covering multiple sectors and companies of different size. This would allow comparisons in terms of industrial as well as cultural differences by exploring which maturity model is adequate to evaluate safety culture in that specific context. By adapting safety culture maturity models to the local context, organisations can create a strong safety culture and improve safety performance in the workplace.