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KRAUSE BELL GROUP SAFETY LEADERSHIP 360 TOOL

Unlocking the Power of Safety Leadership

Creating a strong safety culture takes more than rules and training. It requires leadership that prioritizes trust, accountability, and vision. Krause Bell Group’s Safety Leadership 360 Tool is a feedback-driven assessment that helps organizations elevate safety outcomes. It evaluates and quantifies leadership behaviors across six core dimensions – Vision for Safety, Credibility, Value for Safety, Influencing Others, Listening to Learn and Accountability.

How the Safety Leadership 360 Tool Drives Real Impact

The Safety Leadership 360 tool collects anonymous, structured feedback from supervisors, peers, and direct reports, providing a well-rounded picture of a leader’s safety-related behaviors. Unlike generic assessments, the Safety Leadership 360 Tool focuses specifically on the leadership skills that influence safety performance and culture.

IMPROVING SAFETY LEADERSHIP AND CULTURE

The Six Scales of Safety Leadership

The six scales are split into three foundational practices and three practices for organizational learning.

FOUNDATIONAL PRACTICES

The first three are foundational. Without collective strength in these areas, gaining trust and inspiring action becomes challenging.

  1. Vision for Safety: Visionary leaders connect daily work to the bigger picture of keeping people safe. They align the organization, build commitment, and help others see how they contribute to successful safety outcomes. They are able to navigate uncertainty even when things change.
  2. Credibility: Leaders with high credibility do what they say, build trust, and tell the truth even when it is difficult to do so. They build the foundation of a high-performance values-driven culture.
  3. Value for Safety: Leaders who excel on this scale demonstrate safety is a precondition over getting the work done, especially when there is potential for serious injuries and fatalities. They demonstrate their personal safety ethic and reinforce that safety is non-negotiable.

ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING

Building on the foundational practices the next three practices are essential for fostering organizational learning and continuous improvement.

  1. Influencing Others: Influencing others is the ability to positively guide and support team members by building strong relationships, understanding individual motivations and needs, being open to feedback and challenge and creating work environment that supports safety.  
  2. Listening to Learn: Leaders who listen to learn create deeper understanding leading to more informed, inclusive, and better decisions. They model curiosity and openness.
  3. Accountability: Accountability is the practice of setting clear expectations for safety and serious incident prevention, verifying individuals have the skills and knowledge to meet the expectation, providing timely positive and corrective feedback, and ensuring individuals take ownership of their safety responsibilities. It also involves engaging the appropriate people to address and resolve safety issues effectively, reinforcing shared responsibility for maintaining a safe work environment.

DISTINCT ADVANTAGES

Why choose Krause Bell Group’s Safety Leadership 360 Tool?

The six scales used in Krause Bell Group’s Safety Leadership 360 Tool offer distinct advantages over other more generic, “report card” type assessments:

  • Research-based
  • Built on safety best practices
  • Supports elements of a strong culture
  • Customizable, ensuring relevance and meaning within your organization
  • Easy to use, boosting completion rate and data quality
  • Rich reporting with actionable insights that inspire reflection and impactful change
  • Confidential, facilitating honest feedback
  • Turns insights into action, supporting coaching and leadership development

Conclusion

The Safety Leadership 360 Tool is not just a report card that measures leadership, it is a tool to help shape and transform it. With structured feedback and a focus on the behaviors that matter most, Krause Bell Group’s Safety Leadership 360 Tool helps leaders hone their personal style to become a catalyst for a safer, higher-performing organization.

The sessions offer the opportunity to learn from experienced Krause Bell Group Executive Consultants and are focused on interactive learning, reflection and feedback that can immediately be embedded into daily, site operations.

Interested in Learning More?

As we have implemented Safety Leadership 360 across different organizations and industries, six core leadership profiles have emerged, each with strengths, blind spots, and areas for improvement related to safety leadership. Learn more about each of these personas in our recorded webinar, “UNLOCKING THE SAFETY LEADER WITHIN: Transforming 6 Leadership Styles for a Safer Workplace”.