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.
What is the Single Most Important Thing You Can Do as a Safety Leader?
In this third part of Dr. Krause’s talk to a group of senior leaders, he emphasizes the importance and strategy for reducing SIFs.
Safety Performance is Foundational to Organizational Performance
Most leaders have heard the idea that safety performance is foundational to overall organizational performance. But do leaders really believe that this principle is accurate–to the point that it influences their action and decision making? Getting to this level of understanding requires that leaders see the mechanisms by which safety leads performance. Dr. Krause explains this to a group of senior executives. Â
Update on the Thomas Fire
To our many friends, colleagues, and clients,
We greatly appreciate the many emails asking if we are safe. The short answer is yes. As the fires cycle down, we have no injuries to our staff, consultants, and partners. We are all safe and thankful for it. It was so very gratifying to be asked by so many of you.
