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The Executive Leading With Safety® Approach
The Executive Leading with Safety® Approach helps executives strengthen their personal safety ethic to move organizational culture in a way that places an increasing value on safety. The value of this approach comes from the belief that safety starts at the top. A positive change in safety leadership behavior creates a higher shared organizational value for safety, which motivates employees to help reduce exposure, resulting in fewer injuries, illnesses, and lower costs.
Thousands of leaders have benefitted from this service. DEKRA provides a support team that has deep knowledge in leadership, culture, safety, change execution, and practical experience in adapting this methodology to each client’s unique circumstances.
Advantages of Executive Leading With Safety
- It develops safety leadership knowledge and skills.
- It moves the organization from a focus on preventing injuries to a focus on understanding and reducing exposure.
- It provides individual development at a depth and pace set by the executive.
- It drives executive team alignment.
How Does It Work?
It engages leadership through a mix of assessments, working sessions, and mentoring. Each component is unique, reflecting the individual’s objectives and level of safety understanding. The purpose is to give each participant the necessary skillset to lead the organization and the culture toward continually improving safety performance.
The engagements include some, or all, of the following three elements:
Executive safety leadership is the ability of senior leaders to influence organizational culture, decision-making, and business priorities in ways that strengthen safety performance and reduce risk exposure. Effective safety leadership starts at the top and helps create a shared organizational value for safety.
Executives influence organizational priorities, resource allocation, communication, and accountability. Their actions and decisions help shape workplace culture and employee perceptions of safety throughout the organization. Strong safety culture leadership helps employees understand how safety fits into daily decisions.
A safety leadership assessment evaluates how leaders demonstrate key safety leadership behaviors, including communication, accountability, collaboration, credibility, and action orientation. DEKRA's Safety Leadership Diagnostic Instrument (LDI) measures leadership effectiveness and benchmarks results against thousands of other leaders. The results can guide executive leadership development by showing where individual behaviors can improve.
Executive safety coaching helps leaders strengthen their personal safety ethic, understand how their decisions affect organizational culture, and develop strategies that improve workforce engagement and safety performance.
Transformational safety leadership focuses on influencing behaviors, values, and culture rather than simply enforcing compliance. Leaders inspire commitment to safety by creating a clear vision, building trust, and actively engaging employees in risk reduction efforts.
Safety culture transformation occurs when leaders consistently reinforce safety expectations, model desired behaviors, and align organizational decisions with safety values. Executive leadership is often one of the strongest drivers of sustainable culture change. Executive safety training can help leaders apply these practices consistently.
Yes. Executive leaders influence the systems, priorities, and decisions that affect exposure to high-consequence risks. Strong leadership alignment helps organizations focus on identifying and controlling the factors that contribute to serious injury and fatality potential.
Executive safety leadership programs are typically designed for C-suite leaders, business unit leaders, plant managers, operational executives, and senior leadership teams responsible for setting organizational direction and influencing safety culture. An executive safety program can be tailored to the responsibilities and development needs of each leadership group.