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    Organizational Decision Making for Safety: Part 2

    ByTom Krause April 6, 2023July 31, 2023

    When we think about the sheer numbers of decisions made by leaders the task of improving them all seems quite daunting. The study identified a subset of decisions which had the greatest impact on 60 serious and fatal events. This article outlines an improvement strategy for organizations based on the findings.

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    Organizational Decision Making for Safety: Part 1

    ByKristen Bell April 5, 2023March 20, 2024

    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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    How Safety Improvement Works, Part 3

    ByThomas Meier January 17, 2023July 31, 2023

    Recent studies have made something new and exciting clear: The central theme, the through-line most useful to SIF prevention, is all about decision making for safety. Yes, reducing exposure to risk and improving the culture are crucially important. But how do leaders at different organizational levels influence those things most effectively?

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    ABC Analysis

    ByKristen Bell August 13, 2020August 14, 2020

    Here’s a 5-step method for an ABC analysis, with an example. Step 1 Pinpoint a single action that you want to change. Be extremely specific. Think of a specific person, at a specific point in time, in a specific situation. Step 2 Identify as many antecedents that were present in that specific situation. Antecedents are…

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    What does it take to be an effective EHS leader?

    ByTom Krause February 25, 2020March 24, 2020

    Executives don’t select people outside EHS to lead the EHS function for no reason. They do it because they need a sufficient level of skill, knowledge, and attributes to play at the necessary level. Organizations that attain real safety excellence are aware of this issue and taking active steps to address it.

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    Why End Meetings with Safety

    ByDavid Libby November 30, 2019February 14, 2025

    Most of our clients make a great effort to start meetings in a meaningful way with respect to safety. Many enjoy collecting relevant safety topics for easy reference at the beginning of meetings, and we’ve seen countless humorous videos that illustrate critical risks and risk reduction activities. We’ve admired highly engaged employees who talk about the…

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    What Is a Safety Improvement Strategy: Part 1

    ByTom Krause June 1, 2019June 29, 2019

    What Is a Safety Improvement Strategy and Why Do you Need One? It always surprises me when I see leading organizations who value safety lacking a comprehensive strategy to attain their objectives. The situation is usually something like this: “We are doing a lot to improve safety performance. Our leaders are serious about preventing Serious…

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    The 7 Crucial Things all Leaders Need to Know About Safety

    ByTom Krause January 1, 2019September 9, 2024

    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…

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    The Role of Cognitive Bias in Safe Decisions

    ByKristen Bell November 10, 2017July 31, 2023

    What role does safety play in organizational decision making and how does cognitive bias affect it?

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    Science of Decision Making in Safety: Stating the Obvious

    ByKristen Bell September 26, 2016July 31, 2023

    You are the maintenance manager at a recycling plant.  You have 30 work orders outstanding and you’re already over your budget for the month, but a request comes in to repair an important piece of equipment.  Your worker assigned to evaluate the problem says it will be $1000 to repair the machine. He can keep…

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    VIDEO: Cognitive Bias in Safety

    ByTom Krause June 13, 2016June 20, 2019

    This is the third in a series of 3 videos in which I explore the role of cognitive bias in decision-making (Watch Part 1 here and Part 2 here). In this final video, I provide an example of how our understanding of cognitive bias relates to safety. Part Three: Learn more about our approach to…

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    VIDEO: How Safety-Related Decision Making is Influenced by Cognitive Bias

    ByTom Krause June 3, 2016June 20, 2019

    There is a growing body of knowledge which shows that human thinking tends to be flawed, in predictable ways. Cognitive bias can cause even good leaders to make poor safety decisions. This is the second part of a 2-part video. Watch Part 1 here Learn more about our approach to behavior based safety

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