Privacy Policy

Research participants: Safety Professional & Senior Leader Perception Study

Dimension H&S Ltd is carrying out a research study comparing what senior leaders in UK construction want from safety professionals with what safety professionals believe senior leaders want. This section explains how we handle data from people who take part.

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What we collect

• Survey: your answers to the survey questions, plus whether your organisation is in UK construction, your role category (Senior Leader or Safety Professional), your organisation’s approximate turnover band and, if you choose, your years in role. The survey is anonymous: we do not collect names or company names.

• Interview opt-in (optional): if you offer to take part in a follow-up interview, you complete a separate short form giving your name, email address, role category, turnover band and preferred times. This form is kept separate from the survey, so your survey answers cannot be linked to you.

• Interviews (if selected): an audio and video recording of a 30-minute Microsoft Teams interview, and its transcript.

Lawful basis
We rely on your consent (UK GDPR Article 6(1)(a)). Submitting the survey confirms your consent to take part. Interview participants give separate consent before any interview is arranged.

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Who processes the data
Research data is held within our Microsoft 365 environment (Microsoft Forms, Microsoft Teams and secure storage). Microsoft acts as our data processor under its Products and Services Data Protection Addendum. Access is restricted to the researcher only. We do not share research data with any other third party.

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Where the data is stored
Interview recordings, transcripts and our research files are stored in Microsoft’s UK data centres. Survey and opt-in form responses collected through Microsoft Forms are held by Microsoft under the same data protection terms. If Microsoft needs to transfer data outside the UK to provide its services, those transfers are protected by the UK International Data Transfer Addendum and the UK Extension to the EU–US Data Privacy Framework, as set out in Microsoft’s Data Protection Addendum.

How long we keep it

• Contact details of people not selected for interview: deleted when interviews close on 29 January 2027.

• Interview recordings, transcripts and contact details of people interviewed: deleted within 12 months of the study closing.

• Anonymised, aggregated findings: kept indefinitely as published research.

Withdrawing

• Survey: you can stop at any point before submitting. Because responses are anonymous, we cannot identify or withdraw a response once it has been submitted.

• Interview opt-in: you can withdraw your details at any time before an interview is arranged, and we will delete them.

• Interviews: you can withdraw your interview contribution up to 4 weeks after your interview, or until analysis begins on 1 February 2027, whichever is sooner.

How findings are reported
Findings are reported in aggregate only. Interview themes or quotes are attributed only by role category and company size (for example, “a Safety Professional, medium-sized organisation”), never by name, job title or company.

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Contact
For questions, withdrawals or to exercise your data protection rights in relation to this research, email research@dimensionhs.co.uk.