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Safety, Culture & Business Risk: What’s the Connection?

Kristen Bell

Laura Fiffick

Oct 30, 2018

Categorized under: Improvement Strategy, Safety Culture

When Dr. Thomas Krause and Kristen Bell wrote 7 Insights into Safety Leadership, we were explicitly writing about personal safety within the workplace. We recognized that the insights would apply very well to other types of risks, but we did not focus on those applications directly. We didn’t treat the broad topic of business risk at all. Yet every one of our clients is in the risk management business, and from time to time they ask about our view on the connection between safety and business risk. Not Interchangeable Let’s be clear: One cannot replace “personal safety” with “business safety” in...

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Connecting the Human Resources Function to Your Organization’s Safety Strategy

David Libby

Aug 9, 2018

Categorized under: Improvement Strategy

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In some of my client work, it quickly becomes apparent how well, if at all, the Human Resources (HR) function is connected to the overall safety management strategy for the organization.  Too often the two are not well connected.  It’s rarely an issue of motivation in my experience, but more so an issue of capability: HR professionals don’t understand how to get involved or with what to get involved. Let’s first look at the ‘how’ of engagement.  If the organization’s leadership team is strategically governing the safety improvement agenda, HR needs to be a key part of that effort.  As...

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Decision Making for Safety Leaders: Part 2

Tom Krause

Kristen Bell

David Libby

Jul 28, 2018

Categorized under: Improvement Strategy, Safe Decision Making™ Articles, Safety Leadership

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When we think about the sheer numbers of decisions made by leaders the task of improving them all seems quite daunting. The study identified a subset of decisions which had the greatest impact on 60 serious and fatal events. This article outlines an improvement strategy for organizations based on the findings.

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Serious Injury and Fatality Prevention

Tom Krause

Kristen Bell

David Libby

May 29, 2018

Categorized under: Improvement Strategy, Serious Injuries & Fatalities

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Our first study on serious injury and fatality prevention revealed that these types of incidents had very different precursors compared to other types of injuries. Now, taking this understanding to the next level, our continued research has shown the need to look at where organizations sit on the SIF Maturity Curve.

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