Leading with Safety [Hardcover]

Building on years of research and experience in the field, Leading with Safety redefines organizational safety as an activity that both leads other performance areas and in turn must be led. Thomas Krause poses the question, What does it take to be a great safety leader? — and answers with a comprehensive new model for understanding safety leadership as it affects organizational culture and safety climate. Leading with Safety defines the practices, tools, and systems essential to creating an injury-free workplace, including the role of employees at each level, special considerations for coaching the senior executive leader, and the two crucial aspects of human performance that every leader needs to know. Ending with inspiring real-world examples or organizations that have put these tools into practice, Leading with Safety is written for any leader who wants to lead with safety toward a more robust, productive and effective organization.

Foreword by John L Henshaw xiii

Preface xvii

Acknowledgments xxi

Introduction

Safety as metaphor for organizational excellence 1

Section 1: The Organizational Safety Model 5

1. The Organizational Safety Model 7

How safety leadership assures improvement 8

The primary importance of the Working Interface 10

Understanding the relationship of exposure events to injury events 11

The necessity of leading indicators 14

Enabling safety systems 15

Sustaining safety systems 16

Leadership creates organizational culture and safety climate 16

What motivates leaders to improve safely? 18

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