Safe Decision Making® Findings with Filip Coumans (Krause Bell Group), February 20, 2025
- Feb 20, 2025
- 2 min read
Updated: Mar 26, 2025
What?
How do decision-making relate to Serious Injuries and Fatalities (SIF)? Who impacts the occurrence of SIF events and what you can do to further improve? What impact does decision-making have on culture? At this webinar, Filip Coumans presented us with the Krause Bell Group's approach and perspective on these matters.
Krause Bell Group started a study in 2015 aimed at better understanding how decisions at all levels within the organization impact SIF events. Together with 6 multinationals, Krause Bell Group reviewed 60 actual serious injuries and fatalities, with the aim of understanding:
Who (what level) in the organization makes decisions that impact SIF events?
When are those decisions made relative to the time of the accident?
How do decisions brake down?
What types of cognitive bias influence decision-making?
Since then, Krause Bell Group has worked with multiple organizations, using this methodology expanding their database to more then 300 SIF events, and close to 5 000 decisions from 43 organizations in 39 countries.
Filip Coumans shared the principles of the Safe Decision Making® Methodology, as well as the main findings they have from their work with those organizations.
As always, the audience also got the chance to ask their questions.
The webinar was held in English.
About Krause Bell Group
Krause Bell Group is dedicated to the prevention of Serious Incidents and Fatalities by improving how your organization functions. Our research-based interventions strengthen decision-making and leadership, address behaviour and build culture to create safe, healthy, and high-performing organisations.
Founding partners, Dr. Tom Krause and Kristen Bell, launched Krause Bell Group in 2015 to provide insights to organizations that seek safety improvement. From deepening the understanding of serious injuries and fatalities to developing tools to measure safety leadership capability and cultural attributes, Krause and Bell have provided thought leadership in safety for the past 25 years. The Krause Bell Group guiding ethos is “Data Driven Innovation.” Conducting studies of leading organizations for over 30 years, Krause and Bell have written widely about SIF (Serious Injury and Fatality) prevention, safety leadership and culture, and rethinking employee engagement methods.
About Filip Coumans
Filip Coumans is Managing Director, EMEA at Krause Bell Group. Filip has 20 years of professional experience, with half of that time dedicated to the safety field. He is a sought-after expert who provides valuable insights to senior executives, helping them develop and implement strategic safety improvement initiatives. Filip's expertise lies in guiding leaders at all levels to achieve real and lasting safety improvements by fostering stronger safety leadership. Filip resides in Antwerpen, Belgium.
Material
Presentation
Filip's presentation from the webinar can be downloaded HERE.
Contact information
If you want to get in touch with Filip, you can connect with him on LinkedIn and/or through his email:
Filip Coumans: fCoumans@krausebellgroup.com
Recording
A recording of the webinar can be seen on SÄKUPlay (Youtube) below.