VIDEO: Safety Leadership and Safety Culture by Tom Krause
Dr. Thomas Krause discusses safety leadership and safety culture.
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Which Comes First – Great Leadership or Great Safety Leadership?
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.
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Hippocratic Oath for Safety Leaders
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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VIDEO: New Thinking on Safety Performance Improvement
Four segments with Dr. Tom Krause speaking to a group of senior executives. Leading edge thinking, serious injury and fatality prevention, the role of the senior leader, and how leaders create safety culture.
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VIDEO: What is the Single Most Important Thing You Can Do as a Safety Leader?
In this third part of Dr. Krause’s talk to a group of senior leaders, he emphasizes the importance and strategy for reducing SIFs.
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VIDEO: Safety Performance is Foundational to Organizational Performance
Most leaders have heard the idea that safety performance is foundational to overall organizational performance. But do leaders really believe that this principle is accurate–to the point that it influences their action and decision making? Getting to this level of understanding requires that leaders see the mechanisms by which safety leads performance. Dr. Krause explains this to a group of senior executives.
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VIDEO: What is a Meaningful Safety Conversation?
What is a meaningful safety conversation? In this video, I define what a meaningful safety conversation is. I describe why it’s important. Having a genuine dialogue – not a safety speech – helps you create great relationships with your employees! It gives you positive influence! Watch to learn more about this important tool in safety leadership.
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VIDEO: The Critical Importance of Safety Leadership
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…
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A Safe Workplace Demands Much More than Awareness
What safety leadership attributes matter most? A few years ago we were working with a VP of Operations at a mid-sized oil and gas company. The VP was well intended, and he sincerely wanted to show his commitment to safety. However, the entirety of his safety leadership plan was to send a message out to…
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Science of Decision Making in Safety: Stating the Obvious
You are the maintenance manager at a recycling plant. You have 30 work orders outstanding and you’re already over your budget for the month, but a request comes in to repair an important piece of equipment. Your worker assigned to evaluate the problem says it will be $1000 to repair the machine. He can keep…
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Conveying Genuine Care: A Leadership Challenge
“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 a Town Hall Meeting. The exchange has been well publicized so I won’t repeat it here. As I listened, it occurred to me…
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Don’t Let Your Safety Scorecard be the Tail that Wags the Dog
“If this happened at home, would you go to the hospital?” This was the third question that occurred to David when his warehouse manager stepped off a platform onto a loose rock and rolled his ankle. For the sake of his numbers, David was hoping the answer was “No.” David had attended incident response training…
