In this 1st webinar extract, Thomas Krause uses an initial observation to explain how safety performance is the foundation for building overall performance in an organization. The key question is: why is it that, when safety practices in an organization are good, everything else works well too?
What levers can be used to build a solid organizational culture, to form the cornerstone for perceptible improvements on every level?
This is the first of the seven observations required to build a leadership culture with a positive influence on the organization that will improve performance:
- Improving safety by involving employees promotes organizational performance
- Improving safety starts with preventing severe injuries and fatal accidents
- The leadership sets the trend in improving safety
- Culture impacts performance, for better or for worse
- Leaders need to understand fundamental safety concepts
- Behaviour plays a role, but not in the way you might expect
- Cognitive bias has a negative impact on decisions concerning safety
These aspects are presented in the following extracts from a webinar organized by the Safety Academy.
About the expert
Thomas Krause is world-famous theorist. Over the past thirty-five years, he has been an entrepreneur and consultant, as well as writing books and lecturing on subjects including the culture of change, cognitive bias, leadership development, decision making, behaviour-based safety, patient safety, and the importance of severe injuries and fatalities. Among the five books he has written up to 2017, one particularly innovative publication: "7 insights into safety leadership excellence", forms the basis of this webinar. It was co-authored by his partner, Kristen Bell.