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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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    • Safety Leadership

    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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    • Serious Injuries & Fatalities

    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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    • Behavior-Based Safety

    What Should You Do When Behavior is Your Primary Critical Control?  A Guide for EHS Professionals.

    November 3, 2026

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    The hierarchy of controls encourages organizations to eliminate serious injury and fatality (SIF) exposures, find less risky methodologies (substitute), or engineer safeguards. These control methodologies do not depend on flawless human performance. There are high-risk tasks where none of these methodologies are currently feasible. There are cases where organizations must rely on human behavior as…

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    • Safety Leadership

    Why Management Should Care About the Quality of Incident Investigations

    October 27, 2026

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    A quality incident investigation should produce two outcomes management should care deeply about: This is why investigation quality should not be judged primarily by how quickly an investigation is closed. Timeliness matters, but closure is an administrative milestone, and while investigation deadlines came from leaders wanting to demonstrate their value for safety, it is a…

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    • Serious Injuries & Fatalities

    Zero Tolerance: Does It Make Organizations Safer?

    October 20, 2026

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    Recently, while conducting a safety assessment, we had the opportunity to interview a COO who had just joined the company. During the interview, the COO said they were serious about safety and took a no-nonsense approach. The first thing they planned to do was implement a zero-tolerance policy. The first violation of a life-critical rule,…

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    • Serious Injuries & Fatalities

    You Have the Authority to Pause Work…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 pause 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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    • Serious Injuries & Fatalities

    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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    • Serious Injuries & Fatalities

    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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    • Safe Decision Making® Articles

    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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    • Safety Leadership

    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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