Evaluating Safety Leadership: How to Measure What Leaders Do Before the Numbers Change

By James Dye

Evaluating Safety Leadership: How to Measure What Leaders Do Before the Numbers Change challenges the traditional approach of judging safety performance only by injury rates, recordables, claims, and other lagging indicators.

James Dye, STSC, takes a practical, field-focused look at what effective safety leadership actually looks like before an incident occurs. The book shows leaders how to evaluate planning quality, field presence, communication, critical-control verification, decision-making under pressure, stop-work response, corrective-action follow-through, and the way supervisors respond to risk and bad news.

Built around the LEADER Performance Model, this book gives safety professionals, supervisors, managers, project leaders, and executives practical tools for measuring leadership behavior rather than relying on assumptions or personality.

Readers will find leadership scorecards, field-assessment tools, pre-task planning rubrics, leading-indicator guidance, coaching evaluations, calibration methods, case studies, and a 30-60-90 day development framework.

The central message is simple: strong safety leadership leaves evidence long before the numbers change.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HKCWC5W4
• ISBN13: 9798172195143
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 171 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.4" x 6.0"