Safety Leadership
Safety Performance Starts with Leadership
Suppose you want to accelerate the safety performance of your organization, but you have limited resources to get started. Where would you invest your limited resources? Leadership should be your answer, as it is truly the heart of the matter. In fact, elevating Safety Leadership is the single most important thing an organization can do to set improvement in motion. Leadership is the place you want to go first, with the most energy that you can, and that will innervate all the other things that influence good safety outcomes. What does that look like? On this page you’ll find a variety of resources exploring the role that leadership plays in safety performance.
ARTICLES On SAFETY LEADERSHIP
Organizational Decision Making for Safety: Part 2
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.
Organizational Decision Making for Safety: Part 1
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.
Chapter 4: 7 Insights into Safety Leadership
Culture Sustains Performance — For Better or For Worse This is an excerpt from Chapter 4 of Tom Krause and Kristen Bell’s book “7 Insights into Safety Leadership.” We’ve never met a leader that didn’t want a better culture for their organization. Statements like, “we need to change the culture,” are heard every day in…
4 Questions Board Members Should Ask About Safety Culture
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.
5 Essential Building Blocks for Improving Organizational Culture
Few leaders can honestly say they know how to create, maintain, and enhance their culture. At the same time, the success of a culture change effort depends on the degree to which leaders understand and relate their own decisions, behaviors, and thought processes to the culture itself. The most challenging part of culture change is…
What Does The Practice Of Accountability Mean?
When leaders are asked what they would like to get better at, the answer is often accountability. Usually, it’s thought to be about holding people accountable for non-performance, but the leadership practice of accountability can be so much more! Yes, it is about holding people to account, but it is also an opportunity to grow…
