Blog Posts

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...

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

Aug 9, 2018

Categorized under: Improvement Strategy

Tagged as: Sustaining Systems

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...

Decision Making for Safety Leaders: Part 2

Jul 28, 2018

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

Tagged as: Organizational Safety, SIF prevention, Thomas Krause

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.

Dr. Thomas Krause Discusses Safety Leadership and Safety Culture

Jul 26, 2018

Categorized under: Safety Culture

Tagged as: Demo Videos, Thomas Krause

Dr. Thomas Krause discusses safety leadership and safety culture.

Safe Decision Making for Safety Leaders: Part 1

Jul 25, 2018

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

Tagged as: Innovation, safe decisions, SIF prevention, Thomas Krause

The notion that leadership matters to organizational safety is intuitive for most people. Despite this understanding, safe decision making is an aspect of leadership that has not received enough attention.

Safety Management

Jun 7, 2018

Categorized under: Safety Culture, Safety Leadership

Tagged as: Behavior, Insight 1, Safety Management System

Putting a solid safety management process in place can be difficult. One thing I think we can all agree on is that you must start with a desire and commitment to having one. Real commitment to a properly designed and implemented safety management process does work, and it works for the whole of the organization.

Which Comes First – Great Leadership or Great Safety Leadership?

May 29, 2018

Categorized under: Safety Leadership

Tagged as: Behavior, Insight 3

Which comes first, great safety leadership or great leadership in general? In our view there is no debate: great safety leadership should come first. When leaders lead with safety explicitly by actively promoting safety in their organization, they become great leaders overall.

Serious Injury and Fatality Prevention

May 29, 2018

Categorized under: Improvement Strategy, Serious Injuries & Fatalities

Tagged as: Innovation, Insight 2, SIF prevention

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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