Leadership Development in Safety Culture Transformation: Challenges and Opportunities in Implementing The Capacity Model

This analysis provides peers with practical insights for implementing safety culture transformation, using a case study of The Capacity Model deployment across a decentralized organization.

I review the following:

- Key success factors and pitfalls in implementing the Leadership Playbook, Energy Wheel, Critical Controls, and Operational Learning.

- How organizational structure impacts safety culture development, particularly the tradeoffs between operational flexibility and consistent strategy deployment

- Specific recommendations for enhancing leadership engagement, hazard recognition processes, and incident investigation approaches

- Strategies to bridge the gap between theoretical safety concepts and practical field implementation