Leading with Safety redefines organizational safety as an activity that both leads other performance areas and in turn must be led.

Features:

• Provides a comprehensive new model for understanding safety leadership as it affects organizational culture and safety climate
• Defines the practices, tools, and systems essential to creating an injury-free workplace
• Includes real-world examples or organizations that have put these tools into practice

Contents

The Organizational Safety Model

• How safety leadership assures improvement
• The primary importance of the Working Interface
• Understanding the relationship of exposure events to injury events
• The necessity of leading indicators
• Enabling safety systems
• Sustaining safety systems
• Leadership creates organizational culture and safety climate
• What motivates leaders to improve safety
• Influencing the behavior of safety leaders
• Sustaining organizational change: Two critical elements

The Safety Leadership Model, Part 1

• The personality, values, emotional commitment, and leadership style of the effective safety leader
• The core elements: personality, values, and emotional commitment
• Measurement of the Big Five
• Leading with Safety
• Applications of Big Five research to safety leadership
• Using the findings to improve safety leadership
• How leaders use the Big Five to improve safety effectiveness
• The leader's values and emotional commitment to safety
• Leadership style: transactional and transformational
• Cultivating style

The Safety Leadership Model, Part 2

• Best practices in safety leadership
• The central role of leadership in safety
• Leadership vs. management
• Best practices in safety leadership
• Measuring leadership best practices

The Safety Leadership Model, Part 3

• Understanding organizational culture and safety climate
• Primary dimensions of organizational culture and safety climate
• Why some organizations respond to change more readily
• The Organizational Culture Diagnostic Instrument (OCDI)
• The Organization Dimension
• The Team Dimension
• The Safety-Specific Dimension

Changing Behavior Using Applied Behavior Analysis

• Applied behavior analysis in organizational settings
• How applied behavior analysis supports safety improvement
• Central concepts: antecedents, behavior, consequences
• ABC Analysis as a tool
• Example 1: Changing behavior at the leadership level
• Considerations for identifying new consequences
• Example 2: Changing behavior at the middle management level
• Putting behavior analysis to work

The Effect of Cognitive Bias on Safety Decisions

• Research findings on cognitive bias
• Tragedy on Mount Everest in 1996
• Applications to the organizational safety leader
• Understanding cognitive bias.
• A manufacturing safety example
• Putting knowledge of cognitive bias to work

The Role of Executive Coaching in Leadership Development

• Executive coaching: From remedial to developmental
• A behavioral approach to leadership
• The coaching process: Behavioral and contextual
• Step One: Understanding the context
• Step Two: Clarifying the client's unique point of view
• Step Three: Gathering the data and writing a report
• Step Four: The plan
• Step Five: Implementing the plan
• Step Six: Assessing the impact
• Coaching for safety leadership

The Role of the Supervisor in Leading with Safety

• The pivotal role of the first-line supervisor
• Communication skills - the foundation
• The power of strong working relationships
• Leading with Safety
• Fair decision-making and its effects
• Alignment: Incorporating organizational values and priorities into day-to-day activities
• Safety contacts: Getting an accurate picture of performance

A Systematic Process for Reducing Exposure to Hazards: What the safety improvement process looks like at the worker level

• Engagement and cooperation
• Getting engaged in safety
• The safety improvement mechanism
• Implementing the process: team makeup and charter
• Roles at every level
• Leadership and reduction of exposure to hazards
• Best practices
• Getting started

Planning for Change: Designing Intervention Strategies for Safety Improvement

• The importance of having an effective strategy for safety improvement.
• Developing a strategic plan for safety improvement
• Examples of the development of strategic plans for safety improvement
• Armed services branch
• International metals and mining company
• International energy and utilities company
• Gulf coast chemical company
• Puerto Rican consumer products company

Case Histories in Leading with Safety

• Shell Chemical
• Petro-Canada
• PotashCorp
• Puerto Rican consumer products company

NASA's Approach to Transforming its Organizational Culture and Safety Climate

• Assessing the existing culture and climate
• Findings
• The intervention
• The culture change plan
• Results
• Glenn Research Center & Stennis Space Center
• Johnson Space Center

Index

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