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Making the Workplace Safe from COVID-19

Mar 23, 2020

Categorized under: Safe Decision Making™ Articles, Serious Injuries & Fatalities

Making the Workplace Safe from COVID-19: Let’s Apply Learnings and Strategy from SIF Prevention Over the past 40 years working with global organizations of all sorts on EHS improvement, I’ve never seen anything like the situation we face today. We have less knowledge to go on, more uncertainty and a larger threat than anyone saw coming. At the same time we have unique capabilities, in data and organizational understanding, leadership and culture, and we have unprecedented reason to be highly motivated. Mitigating the impact of COVID-19 is of special interest to every organization but of even greater significance for organizations...

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

Tom Krause

David Libby

Kristen Bell

Oct 27, 2019

Categorized under: Serious Injuries & Fatalities

Tagged as: Insight 2

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. Powerful Questions Here are three powerful questions board members should...

Serious Injuries and Fatalities Remain Level – Part 1

Tom Krause

Jun 29, 2019

Categorized under: Serious Injuries & Fatalities

Tagged as: Insight 2

In this video, Dr. Tom Krause discusses a disturbing trend. While most companies have seen recordable injuries decline, serious and fatal injuries have been level. Further, strategies that reduce smaller injuries don’t have the same impact on serious injuries. We must rethink how we approach safety improvement in general, and the prevention of serious injuries and fatalities in particular. Learn more about our approach to serious injuries and fatalities

Preventing Serious Injuries and Fatalities (SIFs) Requires Organizational Learning

Tom Krause

Feb 26, 2019

Categorized under: Serious Injuries & Fatalities

Tagged as: Behavior, Insight 2

About ten years ago a global client asked why SIFs weren’t declining at the same rate that recordable injuries were. That led to a study drawing on the data of six large organizations. The answers were revealing in many ways. We found that SIFs were structurally different than smaller injuries, precursors were identifiable, and effective prevention required a new strategy. As is often the case with original research, we confirmed an insight we already had, and we also found a new one. We confirmed that studying incidents as a series yields understandings that are not apparent in single events. We...

Serious Injury and Fatality Prevention

Tom Krause

Kristen Bell

David Libby

May 29, 2018

Categorized under: Improvement Strategy, Serious Injuries & Fatalities

Tagged as: Innovation, Insight 2, SIF prevention

It’s been nearly a decade since our first study on serious injury and fatality prevention 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 precursors which lead to serious injuries and fatalities 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...

Hippocratic Oath for Safety Leaders

David Libby

May 3, 2018

Categorized under: Safety Leadership

Tagged as: Insight 1, Insight 2, Insight 3, Leadership Attributes

The Hippocratic Oath was originally written over 2,400 years ago, and meant primarily for the medical profession, but what if safety leaders at all levels committed to a Hippocratic Oath? What do I mean by ‘safety leaders’? Anyone in a position to influence safety is a safety leader; this is not meant just for EHS professionals. How many lives would be saved? How many injuries prevented? How much less pain and suffering would families endure? With some minor edits to the original oath, I’d suggest the following is worth discussing with your leadership teams: I swear to fulfill, to the...

Why a SIF Improvement Strategy is Important for Your Organization

Kristen Bell

Oct 6, 2017

Categorized under: Serious Injuries & Fatalities

Tagged as: Insight 2, SIF potential, SIF precursor

Is your organization still suffering life-altering and fatal injuries even though other types of injuries have improved? If so, you are not alone. In this video (my first ever video!) I explain why your organization may need a dual strategy for improving safety. Learn how a clear and separate focus on serious and fatal injuries can make your prevention efforts more effective. Discover how it can help you gain credibility as a safety leader. The Bottom Line We all feel the moral imperative to protect the lives and livelihoods of people who work for us. A SIF Improvement Strategy delivers...

A New Paradigm for Serious Injuries and Fatalities – Part 2

Tom Krause

Dec 6, 2016

Categorized under: Serious Injuries & Fatalities

Tagged as: Insight 2

Tom Krause continues to discuss the old view and the new. In this video, find out how to reduce serious injuries and fatalities. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqd7Dz111bc Learn more about our approach to serious injuries and fatalities

Does Focusing on SIFs Mean Ignoring Smaller Injuries?

Kristen Bell

Mar 25, 2016

Categorized under: Serious Injuries & Fatalities

Tagged as: Insight 2, SIF prevention

In our book “7 Insights into Safety Leadership,” Tom Krause and I make the point that leaders should start with a focus on preventing serious injuries and fatalities (SIFs). What does it mean to focus on SIFs? What doesn’t it mean? Why is a SIF focus better? First, A Clarification Focusing on SIFs does not mean that smaller injuries are unimportant. It does not mean they should be ignored or left out. Instead, focusing on SIFs is an optimal strategy for preventing all injuries. It is a new approach, and some who have been taught that the best prevention strategy is to focus on the larger category of...

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