Portrait of an Effective Safety Leader
You know it when you see it. But it isn’t always easy to articulate clearly, especially to those who don’t understand it to start with. What does effective safety leadership really look like?
The 7 Crucial Things all Leaders Need to Know About Safety
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 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 safety? What is…
How and Why Behavior-Based Safety (BBS) Must Evolve
The problem with a complex issue is that you have to think about it a little. It’s easy to say “Here are five reasons behavior-based safety is terrific” or “Here are five reasons why it is terrible.” But neither of these tell the whole story. The truth is that behavior-based safety (BBS) is a mixed…
Dr. Thomas Krause Discusses Safety Leadership and Safety Culture
Dr. Thomas Krause discusses safety leadership and safety culture.
Safety Leadership
What do key safety leaders need to understand about safety to influence the organization and achieve better and better performance? We’ve devoted more than 20 years to figuring this out and our research has yielded these seven critical insights.
Rethinking Behavior-Based Safety
Behavior Based Safety is a mixed bag. Understanding what is in the bag is crucial to using the method successfully, not using it all, or most importantly, guiding the natural evolution of BBS to its next form. This short piece is to convince you that your organization needs to re-consider how BBS is done.
Safety Culture
Safety culture and organizational functioning interact with each other in ways that affect decisions, safety-related behavior, and performance. Safety culture not only impacts safety but is a driver of organizational performance in general.
Preventing Serious Injuries and Fatalities Requires Organizational Learning
About ten years ago a global client asked why Serious Injuries and Fatalities (SIFs) weren’t declining at the same rate that recordable injuries were. That led to a study drawing on the data of six large organizations. The answers were revealing in many ways. We found that SIFs were structurally different than smaller injuries, precursors…
New Thinking on Safety Performance Improvement: How Leaders Influence Effectively
Four segments with Dr. Tom Krause speaking to a group of senior executives. Leading edge thinking, serious injury and fatality prevention, the role of the senior leader, and how leaders create safety culture.
Senior Leader: “We Have to Change the Culture”. Yes. But Who Created it to Start With?
In this fourth and final segment of the series, Dr. Krause talks to a group of senior leaders about their crucial role in creating safety culture, for better or worse.
