Further progress requires new thinking.
Tom Krause and Kristen Bell have provided thought leadership in safety for the past 25 years. Many of the methods used widely today by leading organizations started with the data based innovation of Krause and Bell. From progressing the understanding of serious injuries and fatalities to developing tools to measure leadership capability and cultural attributes, Krause and Bell have provided new insight for improving safety performance.
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Beyond the Surface: Unlocking Systemic Insights Through Better Root Cause Analysis
When people are injured at work, investigations often rely on root cause analysis tools like the “5 Whys” or the “Ishikawa Fishbone” model to understand why the injuries happened and…
No Justice, No Peace: Fairness as the Foundation of a Safe Work Environment
How Procedural Justice Helps Build Culture A boss who plays favorites so you must ‘kiss up’ simply to be recognized. A boss who has no idea what you do or…
Detecting the Signal Inside the Noise of Safety Statistics
Executive Summary Safety statistics provide valuable insight into safety, systems, processes, tools, and operations, but leveraging them can be challenging: Applying five key principles can help any leader…
How a “Can Do” Culture Contributes to SIF Prevention: A Perspective from the Utilities Sector
Over the last 5 years, I’ve had the pleasure of working with amazing organizations in the Utilities sector. I’ve interacted with some of the most hard-working people there…
Mastering Safety Leadership: How Front-Line Leadership Decision-Making Prevents Serious and Fatal Injuries
In 1979, my first safety improvement client told me, “We understand the engineering side, but we don’t understand the behavioral side.” Having studied behavioral analysis in graduate school,…
Augmenting HOP to Elevate Safety Excellence
Introduction: The Evolution of HOP in Safety Excellence Human and Organizational Performance (HOP) emerged in the 1990s as a welcome new way of thinking about injury prevention. Initially…
From Reactive to Proactive: The Power of Dashboards for Serious Injury and Fatality (SIF) Prevention.
In today’s fast-paced industrial landscape, safety management too often relies on lagging indicators—metrics that tell us what went wrong after an incident has occurred. While important, this focus…
O Papel Crítico da Liderança em Segurança: Uma perspectiva fundamentada na experiência
Read in English Por meio de nossa experiência combinada de mais de seis décadas no campo da segurança, percebemos que muitas organizações acreditam que os departamentos de segurança…
















