In the words of the authors, “The seven insights presented in this book teach organizational leaders [those leaders safety professionals report to, including and especially, the CEO] how to become excellent in safety on purpose.” The concepts and proven practices in this book draw on the authors’ work over many years at Behavioral Safety Technology. This book provides safety professionals with practical, research-based, insights into how safety leadership improves organizational culture, and how an improved safety culture ensures improved company-wide performance and worker job satisfaction. This book is not an in-depth discussion of leadership or cultural change, but references to important books and studies are found throughout. The authors also directly address the misconceptions surrounding behavioral safety, writing, “The role of behavior in incident causation is important, but it is only one piece… .” Readers familiar with Dr. Krause’s book Leading with Safety will discover a great deal more in this book in terms of deciding what to focus on and the necessary steps to develop a safety culture with the CEO and upper management leading the effort. It is a book that will both inspire change and show the way forward by the success of other companies. “The seven insights provide an excellent starting point for initiating dialog with senior leaders and helping them understand from a systems thinking perspective what it takes to have an effective safety process and the role they play.” –Mike Damasin, Assistant Vice President, Environmental Health and Safety, Cargill, Inc.
Author: Thomas R. Krause & Kristen J. Bell
ISBN: 978-0996685900
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Safety Leadership Institute
Copyright: 2015
Pages: 101
About the Author
Thomas Krause, PH.D., is a world-renowned thought leader on the psychology of management and employee behavior, safety, manmade disasters, accidents and near-misses in a wide variety of workplace, health care and environmental settings.Over the last 35 years, Dr. Krause has been an entrepreneur, consultant and frequent author and speaker on topics such as culture change, cognitive bias, leadership development, executive decision-making, behavioral safety and patient safety. Dr. Krause is a founder and partner of Krause Bell Group and has authored five books relating to safety performance and safety leadership and culture. Kristen Bell is a founder and partner of Krause Bell Group. She has more than 25 years of experience in organizational behavior, leadership, and culture change and had led every phase of organizational culture assessment from design and validation of assessment tools to coaching improvement and evaluating impact.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Safety Performance Leads Business Performance
Chapter 2: Safety Leadership Starts with Attention to Serious Injuries and Fatalities
Chapter 3: Safety Leadership—The Single Most Important Thing an Organization Can Do to Set Improvement in Motion
Chapter 4: Culture Sustains Performance—For Better or For Worse
Chapter 5: Leading Safety Starts with Understanding Safety
Chapter 6: The Role of Behavior in Organizational Safety
Chapter 7: Safe Decision Making and Cognitive Bias
Chapter 8: Conclusion and a Look Forward
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