If you want to improve safety culture, you need more than injury statistics. Lagging indicators tell you what has already gone wrong. Leading indicators show whether the conditions, behaviors, and controls that prevent harm are actually in place. Used together, they give you a more reliable view of risk, performance, and culture than either one…
As leaders, it is easy to underestimate the impact of our actions and decisions. Leaders can unintentionally become exposure amplifiers, creating negative downstream impacts. This article uses three specific examples to illustrate amplifiers that result directly from a leader’s action or decision, and offers guidance on how to identify and manage them. What is an…
Near miss reporting only creates value when people actually report, leaders respond quickly, and the organization learns before harm occurs. If your system produces low-quality reports, weak follow-up, or workforce skepticism, the problem usually is not the form itself – it is the design of the reporting process, the culture around it, and the quality…
The degradation of a safety system can have many causes. During two Root Cause Analyses we participated in, we saw the same outcome at the supervisor level, from two dramatically different causes. The first was the misapplication of Human and Organizational Performance (HOP) principles, and the second was a senior leader with an extremely high…
ISO 45001 Clause 5 sets the expectation that health and safety performance is led from the top, not delegated away as a standalone safety function. If you want to understand clause 5 in ISO 45001, the core idea is simple: top management must show leadership, integrate occupational health and safety into business processes, and create…
Many companies perform incident investigations, but few systematically track and address high-potential events that could cause serious injuries and fatalities. If your process ends with a report, a few corrective actions, and a toolbox talk, you may be improving documentation without reducing SIF exposure. Learning from incidents to prevent SIFs requires a different lens. You…
Safe, Fair, and Fun I have been a soccer referee for close to 20 years, enjoying both the camaraderie and the challenge. I had to step away for 15 years to focus on my day job, but was able to become recertified. In both my first referee training session 25 years ago and my recent…
A good safety culture is easy to recognize when you know what to look for. People speak up early, leaders listen, hazards are addressed before they become incidents, and safety is treated as part of how work gets done – not as a slogan or a compliance exercise. In strong organizations, safety shows up in…
Serious Injury and Fatality Prevention is not a reporting exercise. It is a leadership discipline. If you are responsible for operational performance, workforce protection, or enterprise risk, you need a practical way to identify where catastrophic harm can occur, decide which controls truly matter, and make sure those controls hold under real-world pressure. This executive…
Um excerto com 7 Insights sobre liderança em segurança Este é um trecho do capítulo 4 do livro de Tom Krause e Kristen Bell “7 Insights sobre liderança em segurança“ Leia este capítulo em formato PDF Nunca vimos um líder que não quisesse melhorar a cultura da organização onde trabalhava. Declarações como: “precisamos mudar a…
Un extrait du 7 Perspectives sur le leadership en matière de sécurité Ceci est un extrait du chapitre 4 du livre de Tom Krause et Kristen Bell “7 Perspectives sur le leadership en matière de sécurité“ Lisez ce chapitre au format PDF Nous n’avons jamais rencontré un dirigeant qui ne souhaitait pas une meilleure culture…
If your dashboards are green yet serious near misses keep happening, you are seeing the limits of compliance. To learn why procedures and box-checking don’t automatically produce safety, see Why Safety Procedures Don’t Always Lead to Safe Behaviors. SIF prevention is not about proving you have controls – it is about proving those controls work…
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