DEKRA’s Safety Leadership Development Approach

Equipping managers and supervisors with worldclass level skills to drive risk reduction is essential to achieving and sustaining safe operations and leading safety performance in industry.

When safety improvement occurs it does so through engagement of frontline leaders and teams. And when organizations engage their leadership teams, they gain dramatically better results. Why? Because when leaders participate in safety improvement, front-line safety behaviors connect purposely with the company’s vision.

Paramount to safety performance is the effective actions of supervisors and managers who are responsible for getting the work done. These leaders bridge strategy and performance by communicating the organization’s vision, getting the work done, and unifying the organization behind a common cause: safety.

DEKRA’s Safety Leadership Development process for managers and supervisors strengthens skill across critical safety activities and develops transformational safety leadership skills. This approach consolidates a risk reduction with strengthening a culture of sustained commitment and responsibility at every level of the organization with fewer injuries and incidents as evidence of a skilled team.

The SafeAlign System consists of the following principles:

Laying the Foundation

Customize leadership development to match your org’s language, workflow, and risks. Set clear governance and schedules to support safety. Track both frequency and quality of safety leadership actions to understand conversation depth, risk awareness, and control barriers.

Developing Skills

Every manager and front-line leader must participate in this safety leadership development effort. A multiplatform learning approach enhances the effectiveness of specific safety activities and best practices.

Tracking the Level of Engagement & Effectiveness

Track safety leadership data by measuring both frequency and quality of activities. Counting actions isn’t enough—leaders need insight into conversation depth, risk awareness, and barriers to effective operational control for true impact.

Building Sustainability

Ensure sustainability through governance, coaching, and participation tracking. DEKRA’s approach reinforces a strong safety culture focused on reducing harm. Leaders must actively engage in safety efforts to build a culture where protection from harm is a priority across all operations.

DEKRA’s Safety Leadership ADVANTAGE

Develops safety leadership confidence and skills.
Moves the focus from downstream and injury prevention, to upstream to reduce risk proactively.
Provides real-time data for improved decision quality and safe operational control
Provides a variety of learning modalities to meet organizational needs while driving meaningful improvement.

Organizations serious about safety leadership development understand it is crucial to invest in an approach that delivers sustainable results. DEKRA has delivered results for more than a decade, with thousands of leaders driving safety excellence in their organizations. Our approach is based in psychology and applied neuroscience to ensure customized deep learning with an intensive focus on practical skill embedding and evidencing for risk reduction and cultural impact.

DEKRA Consulting has decades of deep knowledge and experience in transforming organizational culture and strengthening organizational functioning. We know how to protect people and install systems that drive safety excellence. The combination of the DEKRA team’s subject matter expertise and systems focus, paired with your team’s strengths, created powerful and lasting change that protects your people and assets.

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