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4 Questions Board Members Should Ask About Safety Culture
ByTom Krause January 6, 2025January 6, 2025

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.

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Improvement Strategy | Serious Injuries & Fatalities

Serious Injury and Fatality Prevention – 15 Years Later
ByTom Krause May 31, 2024January 22, 2025

Our first study on serious injury and fatality prevention revealed that these types of incidents had very different precursors compared to other types of injuries. Now, taking this understanding to the next level, our continued research has shown the need to look at where organizations sit on the SIF Maturity Curve.

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Serious Injuries & Fatalities

Aligning Executive Pay with the Goal of Fatality Elimination
ByKristen Bell March 25, 2024March 25, 2024

In the complex landscape of corporate governance, compensation committees and boards of directors face the critical task of designing executive compensation packages that not only drive performance but also align with the organization’s core values and safety improvement strategy. This alignment is crucial in industries …

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Serious Injuries & Fatalities

Serious Injuries and Fatalities – The Fundamental Problem
ByTom Krause June 29, 2019June 28, 2023

In this video, Dr. Tom Krause discusses the disturbing trend first discovered around 2010. While most companies had seen recordable injuries decline, serious and fatal injuries remained level. Further, strategies that reduced smaller injuries did not have the same impact on serious injuries. We must continue to rethink how we approach safety improvement in general,…

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Safety Leadership

Hippocratic Oath for Safety Leaders
ByDavid Libby May 3, 2018

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:

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Serious Injuries & Fatalities

Preventing Serious Injuries and Fatalities Requires Organizational Learning
ByTom Krause February 2, 2018June 28, 2023

About ten years ago a global client asked why Serious Injuries and Fatalities (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…

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Serious Injuries & Fatalities

Does Focusing on SIFs Mean Ignoring Smaller Injuries?
ByKristen Bell January 1, 2018June 28, 2023

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….

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Serious Injuries & Fatalities

Why a SIF Improvement Strategy is Important for Your Organization
ByKristen Bell October 6, 2017June 28, 2023

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.

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Serious Injuries & Fatalities

Serious Injuries and Fatalities – The New Paradigm
ByTom Krause December 6, 2016June 28, 2023

In this video, Tom Krause continues to discuss the difference between the old safety paradigm and the new, and what should be done to decrease serious injuries and fatalities.

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