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    Safe Decision Making® Research: Insights and Implications

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    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.

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    The 7 Crucial Things all Leaders Need to Know About Safety

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    In our work at Krause Bell Group, we’ve found that the most important ingredient in any safety program is strong leadership. But all too often, senior executives and safety leaders don’t “get” safety at the level they need to in order to be effective. So what is it that senior leaders need to ‘Get’ about…

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    VIDEO: Serious Injuries and Fatalities – The New Paradigm

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    In this video, Tom Krause continues to discuss the difference between the old safety paradigm and the new, and what should be done to decrease serious injuries and fatalities.

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    • Serious Injuries & Fatalities

    You Have Stop-Work Authority…Why Don’t People Use It?

    October 15, 2026

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    Ask employees in almost any organization whether they have the authority to stop work (Stop-Work Authority, Pause Work, All-Stop, or something similar) when something is unsafe, and the answer is usually yes. Ask these same employees for a show of hands of those who have used this authority, and few are raised. Organizations often suggest…

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    Keeping a Focus on Safety Fundamentals in a SIF Prevention World

    October 8, 2026

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    A Serious Injury and Fatality (SIF) Prevention focus should change where organizations concentrate their resources without weakening their commitment to preventing other injuries. Leaders must distinguish between everyday safety fundamentals that address lower-consequence exposures and routine activities that keep SIF controls effective. Both matter, but for different reasons. Organizations should respond proportionally to incidents and…

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    Rethinking Incident Investigation: We Can Do Better

    September 30, 2026

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    Using a near-miss and subsequent amputation case study, this article illustrates how weak investigation systems focused on limiting which types of incidents get investigated, led by a well-meaning but unprepared investigator focused on closing the incident, fail as a prevention tool. The article identifies common flaws in traditional investigation approaches. As you think about your…

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    Krause Bell Group’s Safe Decision Making® Research: What Leaders Need to Know

    September 17, 2026

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    Understanding how decisions shape safety outcomes has become a central focus for organizations aiming to prevent serious injuries and fatalities (SIFs). Krause Bell Group’s multi‑year research—drawn from over 600 decisions linked to 60 SIF events, and expanded to a database of more than 4,000 decisions—shows that leadership choices, not just front‑line actions, drive safety performance….

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    • Serious Injuries & Fatalities

    Process Safety Leadership: A Critical Link in SIF Prevention

    September 15, 2026

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    Introduction Serious Incident and Fatality (SIF) prevention is often discussed in terms of systems, procedures, and safeguards. Those elements matter, but in high-risk operations, SIF prevention also must include leadership in process safety, because leaders make the decisions that determine whether exposure is reduced, tolerated, or allowed to accumulate. Most organizations in high-risk industries already…

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    Beyond the Flight Deck

    September 3, 2026

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    Why Aviation’s Next Safety Breakthrough Must Begin with Leadership Aviation’s next safety breakthrough cannot come from the flight deck alone. It must come from leaders who recognize and address the systemic warning signals, normalized risks, and organizational decisions that create significant risks. As recent aviation tragedies show, preventing serious events requires safety leadership that proactively…

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    Why Serious Injury and Fatality Prevention Efforts Stall

    June 30, 2026

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    Despite the best of intentions, many SIF Prevention efforts stall or fail to deliver the expected outcomes. This article summarizes the three key phases of an effective SIF Prevention program, detailing the five factors that often cause stagnation or failure. Studying the Data In 2010, Dr. Tom Krause and his team sponsored the first major…

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    Are you an Unintentional Exposure Amplifier?

    June 23, 2026

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    As leaders, it is easy to underestimate the impact of our actions and decisions. Leaders can unintentionally become exposure amplifiers, creating negative downstream impacts. This article uses three specific examples to illustrate amplifiers that result directly from a leader’s action or decision, and offers guidance on how to identify and manage them. What is an…

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    Don’t Let Safety Become a Suggestion Rather than a System

    June 18, 2026

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    The degradation of a safety system can have many causes. During two Root Cause Analyses we participated in, we saw the same outcome at the supervisor level, from two dramatically different causes. The first was the misapplication of Human and Organizational Performance (HOP) principles, and the second was a senior leader with an extremely high…

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