From Safety Oversight to Safety Ownership
How Thiele Kaolin Company expanded safety ownership across its workforce using an exposure-based approach.
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Thiele Kaolin Company operates complex, high-risk environments and has long maintained a strong commitment to safety, with engaged leadership and established processes across its sites.
As part of their effort to continue raising performance, they took a closer look at how safety was showing up in day-to-day work across the organization.
“After evaluating several leading safety programs used across North American industries, we selected DEKRA’s Exposure-Based Safety process. I am confident we made the right choice.”
— J. Eric Tillirson, President & CEO, Thiele Kaolin Company
Through that process, they uncovered an important insight. Many incidents were not tied to equipment or conditions, but to decisions being made in real time across the workforce.
That insight led to a shift in approach.
By combining an exposure-based safety process with a culture assessment, Thiele began expanding safety ownership beyond a centralized team and into the workforce itself, leading to earlier identification of risk, stronger engagement across sites, and real improvements in how work gets done day to day.
Download the case study to see how Thiele approached the shift and what started to change across their operations.
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Thiele Kaolin Company operates complex, high-risk environments and has long maintained a strong commitment to safety, with engaged leadership and established processes across its sites.
As part of their effort to continue raising performance, they took a closer look at how safety was showing up in day-to-day work across the organization.
“After evaluating several leading safety programs used across North American industries, we selected DEKRA’s Exposure-Based Safety process. I am confident we made the right choice.”
— J. Eric Tillirson, President & CEO, Thiele Kaolin Company
Through that process, they uncovered an important insight. Many incidents were not tied to equipment or conditions, but to decisions being made in real time across the workforce.
That insight led to a shift in approach.
By combining an exposure-based safety process with a culture assessment, Thiele began expanding safety ownership beyond a centralized team and into the workforce itself, leading to earlier identification of risk, stronger engagement across sites, and real improvements in how work gets done day to day.
Download the case study to see how Thiele approached the shift and what started to change across their operations.
Get the Case Study