
The Power of Leadership in Shaping Safety Culture
Organizations with strong safety cultures achieve better safety outcomes—but building and maintaining a great safety culture is no easy feat. So how should organizations approach it? And what is a leader’s role in creating it?
Marcia Kay Thompson, Esq. is a former intelligence analyst at the DEA, celebrated civil rights attorney, U.S. Capitol ombudsman, diversity, equity, and inclusion expert, and global Amazon executive. In this episode, Marcia answers these burning questions and explains:
- How to rally every employee around safety values
- Mistakes to avoid that erode a safety culture
- How to leverage safety data for better decision-making
- The key to creating memorable safety training
The Employee Safety Podcast is hosted by Peter Steinfeld, SVP of Safety Solutions at AlertMedia.
You can find this interview and many more by following The Employee Safety Podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

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