VIDEO: 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.
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VIDEO: 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.
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VIDEO: New Knowledge In The Safety World
Dr. Tom Krause speaks on safety leadership, to a live audience of senior corporate executives. In the first of four videos, Tom emphasizes that new research has changed the way the safety community thinks about Serious Injuries and Fatalities.
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Press Release: Libby Promoted to Partner at Krause Bell Group
PRESS RELEASE OJAI, CA — David W. Libby, President of Consulting Services at Krause Bell Group, has been elevated to Partner effective May 1, 2017, according to company founder Dr. Thomas Krause. Libby joined the safety consulting organization as President of Consulting Services in August of 2016, following more than ten years of executive coaching…
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Should Your Organization Integrate Worker Safety and Patient Safety?
After many years of safety consulting with organizations of all kinds, including those in health and medical care, I’m struck by the division in healthcare between ‘patient safety’ and ‘worker safety’. In most healthcare organizations these two types of safety have separate staffing, metrics, prevention initiatives and systems, and overall leadership emphasis. I believe this…
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VIDEO: Serious Injuries and Fatalities – The New Paradigm
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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Beyond Finger Pointing – Safety Culture and the Deepwater Horizon Incident
Deepwater Horizon began showing in United States theaters on September 30. As with most historical films, the post-release flurry of critique and dialogue about the film’s accuracy has ensued, and BP’s blunders have become a conversation topic around most dinner tables. While we all love a great villain, and the portrayal of BP fits so…
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VIDEO: The Critical Importance of Safety Leadership
In this video, Dr. Tom Krause discusses one of the most critical insights into safety leadership: Leaders who commit themselves to safety will transform organizational performance. He also gives examples of ways that organizations can instill this way of thinking into the safety aspect of every day business. Learn more about our approach to safety…
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VIDEO: Systems-Based Approach to Safety
In this video, Tom Krause and Kristen Bell describe the systems-based approach to safety, often referred to as Human and Organizational Performance (HOP). This school of thought takes a look at the systemic factors that occur within the context of an organization.
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A Safe Workplace Demands Much More than Awareness
What safety leadership attributes matter most? A few years ago we were working with a VP of Operations at a mid-sized oil and gas company. The VP was well intended, and he sincerely wanted to show his commitment to safety. However, the entirety of his safety leadership plan was to send a message out to…
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VIDEO: The Evolving Role of Data in Organizational Safety
The types of safety data available today and the tools for analyzing it are changing at a rapid pace. In this video, Dr. Tom Krause and Kristen Bell have a discussion about the evolving role that data is playing in organizational safety.
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Where Did the Concept of “Safety Culture” Come From?
We’ve found that organizational culture is one of the most important dimensions of business performance, especially in the realm of safety. But “safety culture” is often taken for granted because the concept seems so obvious and so powerful and few people realize the context in which organizational culture exists. Indeed, it didn’t emerge as a…
