3 Questions Board Members Should Ask About Serious Injury and Fatality Prevention

ByTom Krause

It was 1993 and Paul O’Neill was attending his first board meeting as a Director at one of the largest companies in the world. Just as the meeting was coming to a close, O’Neill asked, “Where is the safety report?” As the story goes, no safety report was planned but the question had profound effects. It set the company on the path to creating safety excellence and embedding safety as a cultural value. Board member influence can do that — uniquely — and it saves lives while creating business value.

Innovation in SIF Prevention

ByKristen Bell

Over the past two decades, many leading organizations have achieved consistent improvement in injury prevention.  On average, US private companies reduced their injury rates by 62% between 1994 and 2014.  But those dramatic reductions in injuries haven’t translated into reductions in workplace fatalities, which dropped by just 34% in the same period.  For a mid-sized…

How to Accelerate Safety Performance Improvement

ByTom Krause

Most of us know there is no off-the-shelf game-changer that will “fix safety.” It can be seductive to think otherwise, and of course there is no shortage of consultants out there who have all the answers. But the reality is that any single solution generally addresses only a sliver of the real issue. Safety performance…