What is Safety Culture?
In this video Dr. Krause talks about the difference between “organizational culture” and “safety culture.”
How to Transform Business Results by Getting Safety Right First
The connection between safety and business performance comes down to creating the conditions for organizational success—and it just so happens that safety is the perfect platform to support that collaborative effort.
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…
Safety, Culture & Business Risk: What’s the Connection?
When Dr. Thomas Krause and Kristen Bell wrote 7 Insights into Safety Leadership, we were explicitly writing about personal safety within the workplace. We recognized that the insights would apply very well to other types of risks, but we did not focus on those applications directly. We didn’t treat the broad topic of business risk…
Dr. Thomas Krause Discusses Safety Leadership and Safety Culture
Dr. Thomas Krause discusses safety leadership and safety culture.
Safety Management
Putting a solid safety management process in place can be difficult. One thing I think we can all agree on is that you must start with a desire and commitment to having one. Real commitment to a properly designed and implemented safety management process does work, and it works for the whole of the organization.
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.
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.
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…
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…
Why Safety Is Good Business: The Importance of a Healthy Safety Culture
Most people readily agree that safety is good business, but they span an enormous spectrum in what they mean by that and the degree to which they truly understand the connection between safety and their business. Understanding that connection is important. Without the right understanding, anyone who recognizes their fiduciary duty to their organization will…
What Culture Are You Creating?
We’ve never met a leader that didn’t want a better culture for their organization. We hear statements like, “we need to change the safety culture,” every day. What is odd is that the leaders who make these statements usually think they are talking about other people, when in reality they are talking about themselves. We…
