The Reliability Advantage: Proactive Measures That Prevent Serious Events

Jul 30, 2026Webinar

Wednesday, July 29th 2026 - 2:00 PM (EDT)

Organizations often invest significant time and resources to understand incidents after they happen. High-reliability organizations take a different approach: they strengthen leadership actions, cultural conditions, and proactive measures that reveal risk before it escalates.

In this webinar, DEKRA experts will explore how high-reliability scales can help leaders better understand the strength of their organization’s culture, identify blind spots, and translate cultural insight into practical risk-reduction action. The discussion will connect leadership behaviors to meaningful leading indicators that support the prevention of both occupational serious injuries and fatalities and catastrophic events.

Drawing on DEKRA’s field experience and recent research, this session will examine what leaders can do to build greater sensitivity to weak signals, encourage questioning, strengthen learning, and improve organizational resilience. Attendees will leave with a clearer view of where their organization may be today, what may be missing, and how leaders can take practical steps toward higher reliability.

Key Takeaways:

Understand how high-reliability scales can reveal cultural blind spots that traditional safety metrics may miss.
Explore leadership actions that support high-reliability organizations, including sensitivity to weak signals, questioning, learning, and resilience.
Learn how proactive measures can help organizations identify risk before it escalates into serious or catastrophic events.
See how these proactive measures can evolve beyond activity-based indicators into more meaningful measures tied to risk, controls, and culture.
Gain practical ideas that both senior and mid-level leaders can use to strengthen reliability across their teams and operations.

Presenters:

Wendy Brant, Principal Consultant - DEKRA

Wendy Brant is a trusted EHS leader who helps organizations navigate complex challenges, evolve safety strategies, and build sustainable programs that support operational excellence.

James Grant, Vice President - DEKRA

James Grant is a safety strategy and human performance leader who helps organizations challenge traditional approaches, strengthen safety culture, and build the conditions for sustainable performance.

David McMichen, Principal Consultant - DEKRA

David McMichen is a safety culture and human performance expert who challenges organizations to look beyond compliance and create environments where people and processes work together to improve performance.