-
-
How Safety Improvement Works — Part 3
Recent studies have made something new and exciting clear: The central theme, the through-line most useful to SIF prevention, is all about decision making for safety. Yes, reducing exposure to risk and improving the culture are crucially important. But how do leaders at different organizational levels influence those things most effectively?
-
-
Why Safety Directors Need to Become Better at Change Management
An early 1990’s study conducted within General Electric on best practices in change management showed that an initiative can fail despite a good technical solution or approach: “100% of all changes evaluated as successful had a good technical solution or approach. 98% of all changes evaluated as unsuccessful also had a good technical solution or approach.”
-
How Leadership Decision Making Influences Worker Well-Being
Organizational leaders are increasingly concerned with the well-being of people in their organization, and they should be. Interpersonal conflict, frustration, detachment, absenteeism, and chronic stress are all signs that burnout or turnover are approaching. At a deeper level is the person’s sense of connectedness, inclusion, and efficacy. Deeper still, people want to be part of…
-
Building a Deeper Relationship between Operations and Safety
The purpose of this article is to challenge the traditional relationship between senior operations leaders and leaders in the safety function, using the risk matrix as an exemplar and catalyst for change. We contend the traditional relationship has the operations leader delegating pivotal safety decisions to their safety counterparts. The lack of involvement contributes to…
-
Organizational Decision Making for Safety: Part 2
When we think about the sheer numbers of decisions made by leaders the task of improving them all seems quite daunting. The study identified a subset of decisions which had the greatest impact on 60 serious and fatal events. This article outlines an improvement strategy for organizations based on the findings.
-
Safe Decision Making® Research: Insights and Implications
The notion that leadership matters to organizational safety is intuitive for most people. Despite this understanding, safe decision making is an aspect of leadership that has not received enough attention.
-
Tribute to Paul O’Neill
The greatest and most effective safety leader of our time (and hero to me) died this morning in Pittsburg. It is a huge loss to the community of people who value organizational leadership, and in particular, workplace safety.
-
What does it take to be an effective EHS leader?
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.
-
How to Transform Business Results by Getting Safety Right First
The connection between safety and business performance comes down to creating the conditions for organizational success—and it just so happens that safety is the perfect platform to support that collaborative effort.
-
Developing a Safety Improvement Strategy: Part 3
Introduction In Part 1 and Part 2 of this series, we laid out the reasons for having a written Safety Improvement Strategy, why an early objective is likely to be to improve the organizational and safety culture, and how to approach the measurement aspect. In this section, we’ll finish with objectives and start on the…
Leadership
We help organizations become safer and more successful by strengthening decision-making, improving leadership, and building culture.
Receive information about upcoming events, masterclasses, webinars, and recently published articles, books and thought leadership.
EVENTS
© 2026 Krause Bell Group | Privacy Policy | Terms of Use
