Imagine an operational leader of any business who is unable to produce a strategic plan. Such inabilities would be career-limiting and characterize the individual as a doer not a thinker, or as a task-master rather than a strategist.
Much has been written about the need for safety to be integrated into business thinking for safety to become the way of business and a core value rather than priority. Not enough attention is placed on the need for business practices to be integrated into safety thinking.