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This session reframes how we think about safety leadership in modern, high-risk organisations. Rather than treating safety leadership as simply “putting safety first,” Dr Casey argues that this traditional mindset is increasingly inadequate in complex environments where leaders must continuously balance competing goals such as productivity, quality, cost, and wellbeing
Drawing on decades of safety and leadership research, Dr Casey will trace the evolution of safety leadership from early behavioural and compliance-focused approaches to more nuanced, context-aware models. It highlights how leadership at different organisational levels shapes safety outcomes, and why both positive leadership (e.g. transformational, relational, transactional) and poor or destructive leadership can profoundly influence safety climate, behaviour, and risk.
A central idea presented throughout this webinar is the concept of leading safety: an integrative approach that moves beyond “either/or” trade-offs between safety and production. Instead, leaders are encouraged to recognise and actively resolve tensions through paradoxical thinking, situational judgement, and decision-making under pressure.
The webinar will translate these ideas into practical insights for leaders, safety professionals, and managers seeking sustainable safety performance in real-world conditions.
By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:
Differentiate traditional “safety first” leadership from contemporary approaches to leading safety and explain why simplistic safety-versus-production trade-offs often fail in complex organisations.
Identify how leadership behaviours at frontline, middle management, and executive levels shape safety outcomes, including safety climate, compliance, and proactive safety behaviours.
Recognise the risks of poor, passive, or destructive safety leadership, and understand how these behaviours contribute to drift, normalisation of risk, and weakened safety culture.
Apply a paradoxical, context-aware approach to safety leadership, enabling leaders to integrate safety with other organisational goals to support sustainable safety performance.
Director, New View Safety
Dr Tristan Casey is a seasoned ‘scientist-practitioner’ with experience across private consulting, academia, and government. He is an endorsed Organisational Psychologist with over 15 years’ expertise in the practical management of health, safety, and wellbeing. Dr Casey has developed numerous award-winning training programs, measurement tools, and academic publications. He is a keen advocate of the positive links between safety, wellbeing, and overall job performance. Dr Casey is currently co-founder and Director of New View Safety, a boutique consultancy specialising in bespoke training, management system optimisation, and applied research.
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