Leadership and culture are two sides of the same coin; neither can be realized without the other.
Leaders create and manage the safety culture in their organizations by maintaining safety as a priority, communicating their safety expectations to the workers, setting the standard for safety, and through actions not talk (walk the talk), leading needed change by defining the current state, establishing a vision, developing a plan, and implementing the plan effectively.
Leaders cultivate trust to engender active participation in safety and to establish feedback on the effectiveness of their organization’s safety efforts.
James Reason, 1990
