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Dr. Tom Krause Moderates ASSE Plenary Town Hall 2017

Tom Krause

Apr 5, 2018

Categorized under: Safety Culture

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See Dr. Tom Krause interview Dr. Todd Conklin and Dr. Scott Geller, along with two panelists from industry: Eric Grundke, VP of Safety, Kiewit Corporation, and Kurt Krueger, CPEA, Health & Safety Programs, GE One EHS at the Plenary Session of ASSE’s annual Professional Development Conference held in Denver, Colorado in June of 2017. https://youtu.be/QE57xU0TBAs Dr. Krause will moderate a panel for the Plenary Session at the 2018 ASSE Conference in San Antonio. View more information here. Panelists are Todd Conklin, Scott Geller, Laurie Shelby, Al Johnson, and Ellis Jones.

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Building Capability in SIF Prevention Through Data-Driven Innovation

Kristen Bell

Sep 29, 2017

Categorized under: Serious Injuries & Fatalities

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It’s been nearly a decade since our first SIF study explained why so many companies were seeing recordable injuries improve while fatal injuries were level or increasing. Dr. Tom Krause, with collaborators from 9 global organizations studied the problem in 2010. They concluded that the disturbing trend was the result of differences in the situations leading to serious and fatal injuries compared to other types of injuries. This work demonstrated that the traditional approach to safety improvement is ill-advised. For decades, the strategy was to reduce exposure at the bottom of the safety triangle in hopes that serious and fatal...

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Innovation in SIF Prevention

Kristen Bell

Apr 29, 2016

Categorized under: Serious Injuries & Fatalities

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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 organization, this trend might be experienced as years of excellent safety performance followed by a devastating series of serious and fatal (SIF) events.  It has been more than a decade since we first reported that traditional efforts to prevent harm in the workplace have been less...

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