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 …
Executives don’t select people outside EHS to lead the EHS function for no reason. They do it because they need a sufficient level of skill, knowledge, and attributes to play at the necessary level. Organizations that attain real safety excellence are aware of this issue and taking active steps to address it.
Which comes first, great safety leadership or great leadership in general? In our view there is no debate: great safety leadership should come first. When leaders lead with safety explicitly by actively promoting safety in their organization, they become great leaders overall.
What do key safety leaders need to understand about safety to influence the organization and achieve better and better performance? We’ve devoted more than 20 years to figuring this out and our research has yielded these seven critical insights.
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:
In this video, Dr. Tom Krause discusses one of the most critical insights into safety leadership: Leaders who commit themselves to safety will transform organizational performance. He also gives examples of ways that organizations can instill this way of thinking into the safety aspect of every day business. Learn more about our approach to safety…
The first thing that a safety leader needs in order to be effective in safety is a genuine, heartfelt commitment to their employees. The second thing a safety leader needs is a vision for safety, an ability to clearly describe that vision to others, and a willingness to take action to bring their vision into…
“Do they really in their heart feel like you’re doing everything you can to protect their lives?” These are the words of Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick when he challenged President Obama during last week’s Town Hall Meeting. The exchange has been well publicized so I won’t repeat it here. As I listened, it occurred to…
Any leader will tell you “leadership creates culture.” Oddly enough, “knowing” in this case doesn’t reach very far. What is required is finding the connection between what I do as a leader and the kinds of cultural attributes I would like to change. Here is an example from my experience: I was the CEO of…
Organizational leaders are always in the process of seeking out and developing talented people who can take on responsibilities and attain objectives. The higher up you get the more important this becomes. If you could just find five people who could do what you can do, or what your top leader is doing, life would…
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