3 Things All Senior Leaders Need to Know About Safety
Aug 26, 2016
Categorized under: Safety Leadership
Organizations often suffer a disconnect between safety professionals and other leaders. Operational leaders are paid to assess situations and make decisions aggressively. They work in cycles of what is wrong and what it will take to fix it, and they are good at what they do. However, this drive can prove counterproductive to safety performance improvement when it’s not grounded in a solid understanding of safety fundamentals. It surprises safety professionals to learn how often core safety concepts are misunderstood or unknown to leaders at various levels throughout an organization, and indeed that knowledge gap generally expands as you go...