Avetta announced the Avetta Cultural Maturity Index (CMI), what is said to be the first organizational culture maturity assessment tool mapped to occupational health and safety standards from the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
Developed in partnership with the American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP), the CMI provides hiring clients actionable insights into the cultural drivers of their supply chains’ safety performance while giving suppliers and contractors a clear, structured path to safety maturity and work readiness.
"Strong systems are a cornerstone of enhancing safety performance,” says Abid Yousuf, chief customer officer at Avetta. “But we must also look deeper into the human element—the leadership, empowerment and trust that dictate how work actually happens on the ground. The Avetta Cultural Maturity Index turns ‘culture’ from an abstract concept into a measurable, actionable safety strategy based on technical rigor. When combined with the Avetta Safety Maturity Index, we’re providing the visibility needed to help break through the workplace fatality plateau and pave the way to getting every worker home safely.”
Key takeaways:
- The CMI provides a practical, data-driven approach to transforming organizational culture across global supply chains to include safety as a core pillar. It complements the Avetta Safety Maturity Index (SMI), which evaluates the effectiveness of supplier and contractor safety management systems. Together, the SMI and CMI provide a comprehensive view of both the structure of safety systems and the cultural conditions that determine how well those systems perform in practice.
- The CMI survey takes suppliers and contractors just 15 minutes to complete, making it simple to deploy at scale without disrupting operations. It asks a combination of perception- and maturity-based questions to analyze four cultural drivers—management commitment, employee empowerment, process and trust—across seven key dimensions of safety maturity. Results are then presented in an easy-to-understand report that enables hiring clients, suppliers and contractors within the Avetta community to identify strengths, pinpoint gaps and prioritize steps that lead to measurable improvement.
- Avetta’s collaboration with ASSP embeds the principles of ANSI/ASSP Z10 and ISO 45001 into the design. The CMI is the first initiative developed through ASSP’s Standards-Based User Groups, a new strategic framework designed to move the safety profession beyond regulatory compliance toward measurable, data-driven excellence.
“The Avetta Cultural Maturity Index shows what our Standards-Based User Groups are meant to deliver,” says Jennifer McNelly, CEO at ASSP. “By partnering with Avetta, we’re turning consensus standards into practical, technology-enabled tools that help organizations protect workers and elevate safety from a regulatory requirement to a true business driver.”
