What is a safety culture anyway? For most safety professionals, a safety culture is the value each employee has toward safety.

A serious movement is afoot to systematize the concept of “safety culture.” The International Labour Organization has put forward a definition of a “preventative safety and health culture,” and ISO is apparently discussing prospective prescriptive requirements for a “positive culture.”

Dr. Tom Krause and Kristen Bell have joined forces to form the Krause Bell Group. Dr. Krause is a pioneer in organizational safety and a thought leader in the development of new methods for organizational performance improvement.

Prominent leadership expert Jim Collins has studied and written about companies that were “OK” for a long period of time, and then surged to increase stock value and overall performance excellence.

In some places, safety is treated much like human resources used to be.

Four years before BP’s Deepwater Horizon became global news, ExxonMobil walked away from a $187 million investment in a similar deep sea well called Blackbeard.

There is a lot of emphasis placed on the importance of creating a “safety culture” within an organization – but what does this mean? And how do you do it?

There are a number of popular approaches that assist organizations in improving their safety performance.

My limit has been reached. I’m talking about leadership hero worship.