WEBINAR – Safe Decision Making® framework

Join Filip Coumans and Thomas Meier for this webinar around our Safe Decision Making® framework.

If you want to reduce Serious Injuries and Fatalities (SIF), you must look far beyond what workers “should have done differently.”
Most organisations still focus heavily on frontline behaviour after an incident, yet the data shows a very different story. Decisions made at every level of the organisation — from the front line to senior leadership — play a critical role in shaping exposure and influencing whether a serious incident occurs.

In a landmark study conducted with six multinational companies, Krause Bell Group analysed 60 Serious Injury and Fatality events in depth. Across these cases, we identified more than 600 decisions that contributed to the incidents. The findings challenge assumptions and provide a clear roadmap for prevention:

• Only 33% of contributing decisions were made at the frontline.
• A full 67% were made at managerial or corporate levels — long before a worker ever encountered the hazard.

These decisions include how resources are allocated, how priorities are communicated, how production pressures are managed, and how leaders weigh risks — often unconsciously — in day-to-day business trade-offs. Many leaders are unaware of the cumulative impact their choices have on exposure creation.

To prevent SIF events, decision quality must improve at ALL levels of the organisation.
This webinar will explore what effective decision making looks like in practice, why traditional incident reviews often miss critical organisational contributors, and how leaders can better recognise the influence of cognitive biases, competing priorities, and systems design.

We’ll introduce the Safe-Decision-Making^® framework and show how it helps leaders make more informed, risk-aligned decisions that strengthen controls and reduce SIF exposure.

Whether you are in operations, EHS, HR, or senior leadership, this session will clarify where your organisation’s real influence lies — and what actions you can take to meaningfully prevent Serious Injuries and Fatalities.

Register here to join our webinar.

Please Note: This event is specifically designed for safety leaders who are working to eliminate Serious Injuries and Fatalities within their organizations.
We respectfully request that independent consultants and employees of safety consulting firms not participate in this event.