LEAD takes safety leadership in an exciting new direction, with practical tools, that will give organisation’s the skills they need to make a difference in their safety program. LEAD is designed to map specific safety leadership skills onto any work situation.

1: Why LEAD? 2: LEAD in a Nutshell 3: Where Have We Been? Where Are We Going? 4: Matching Leadership to the Situation 5: Safety as a Control Problem 6: Leverage - Getting Things Done 7: Energise - Pursuing Opportunities 8: Adapt - Making Mistakes 9: Defend - High-Risk 10: Safety culture, Culture Safety, or Culture for Safety? 11: National Culture and Safety Leadership 12: Leading Safety in the FutureAppendix 1 – The LEAD Backstory Appendix 2 – LEAD Case Study: A Training Implementation at Teys Australia Appendix 3 – LEAD Case Study: Robust Risk Conversations at a Water Services Company Appendix 4 – Changing an Entire Industry Index

"Safety leadership has been riding the waves of general leadership theories since the end of the last century. While this is not surprising – leadership is leadership, right? – it also means research has been running into the same issues as general leadership research. Because what is a good leader, or what makes a good leader? Scholars have looked at ‘great men’ and successful men. They have studied traits of important leaders, their attitudes, ethics, morality. As hard as these things are to study, they are equally hard to communicate, or to train. So what about leadership behaviours? What do leaders in safety in practice do? In this book you will find answers to these questions. It basically boils down to: safety leaders LEAD. What this means or entails, you will read in this book. The writers will lead you through LEAD with examples, exercises and theory. Leading has never been simpler."— Frank Guldenmund, Delft, Netherlands