Results Based Safety is rooted in bad leadership. Business and safety leaders have this misguided view that they make the important decisions, they tell people what to do, and the workers need to follow the great leader, and if they do, results will be achieved. If they don’t do as they are told, then there are problems, failures, pressure, and stress at extreme levels—and leaders see their role as battling these people, and getting things done. The life of a leader, they think to themselves, no one understands what it’s like at the top, “doing what I have to do, and what I put up with”. This is all wrong, this is dysfunctional leadership, oftentimes dictatorial leadership, and it has never worked long-term. The consequences are catastrophic. These types of leaders should change immediately or be removed from their position because NO organization can afford the damage this type of thinking and behavior causes. The leader is responsible for successfully implementing leadership performance improvements through people-centric models and safety performance improvement. The true science that drives BBS can be tested, and proven that it works. I have discovered that BBS works because it is science, however, I have also found that the safety community has mixed BBS with what I call Results Based Safety (RBS), and this mixture has confused so many people because they are not able to separate the science from the results based anecdotal approach.
