The Quest to QHSE: Recent Episodes
Craig Thornton
The Quest to QHSE is a podcast which covers all facets of creating and implementing a successful, efficient quality, health, safety, environmental, information security and food safety system. The Quest for QHSE is hosted by Craig Thornton, a compliance professional with decades of experience and extensive knowledge to share. This podcast has been sponsored by Mango, a compliance software company which specialises in an integrated software system to manage your QHSE.
Wow 25 Episodes this year already! This 25th Episode marks our final podcast for the year, and we are ending on a good one.
The guest for this episode, is Michael Terry from Momentum Safety and Ergonomics, discussing the top tips for manual handling.
Michael is a physiotherapist, an OHS consultant and trainer with extensive experience in injury prevention. So he really does know what he is talking about!
Keep an eye out in 2020 as we will be coming with some fresh new content. Flick us a message on 'The Quest to QHSE' Facebook page if you have any topic recommendations you would like us to discuss.
In this episode of the podcast, we will be joined by Gary Patrick to talk about the popular QHSE topic of, establishing objectives and targets for your management systems.
Gary is the director and principal of QSM Group, a leading professional services business and a registered training organisation based in Perth, Australia.
In todays episode of the podcast, we will get some top notch training from one of New Zealand’s very best lean professionals, Sean Banayan.
The topic is a good one; that is Root Cause Analysis: Tool, Tips and Tricks.
In todays episode of the podcast, we are joined by Ian Hendra to discuss an alternative approach to internal audits.
Ian is always thought provoking and challenges conventional thinking around QHSE.
Ian has some really interesting thoughts on internal auditing. He may even change your belief systems around internal auditing.
In todays podcast, I will be talking about the best QHSE tool for 2019: Going to the Gemba.
I truly think this is the number one activity that you should do if you are in the compliance industry; whether that is quality, health and safety, environmental, food safety or information security management systems.
In today’s podcast, we will be joined by Michael Voss from Pyxis to discuss how you can improve the health and safety performance of your organisation.
Michael has broken this podcast into 5 sub-topics; - The 5 types of measures world class companies track that makes them successful - How to check your measurement system compared with the world’s best - Why zero harm initiatives fail to lift safety performance - The 3 essentials you need to drive health and safety incidents to zero in your workplace - How to measure the culture you need to keep people safe.
In today’s podcast, we are going to be joined by Laurie O’Donoghue to discuss how to use safe work method statements.
Laurie is one of Australia’s leading health and safety experts and is in great demand. He is the managing director of Total Management and Training in Cairns, Queensland and is a Mango Partner.
Laurie has been involved in health and safety for over 30 years, working for the National Safety council of Australia and then running his own consultancy company and RTO’s.
In Todays Podcast, we will be joined by John Barr to discuss the best ways to provide your Board of Directors with the Health & Safety knowledge they need.
John has worked in many advisory and governance roles over the years so has a vast knowledge on today's topic.
John explains why you need to build a reputation for being people that handle problems and fix causes not simply fix problems.
In today’s podcast, we will be joined by Chris Docherty - the Managing Director of FQM Limited in Scotland.
Chris is going to discuss how to link your HSEQ program to your supplier relationship and performance management system.
In today’s podcast, we will be joined by Dr Andrew Prest to discuss how to set goals and driving these through your business.
Andrew is Managing Director of Sustainability Systems Limited based in Auckland here in New Zealand. He is one of New Zealands Leading experts on lean thinking.
In episode 15, We have Michael Terry joining us to discuss the best practices of workplace rehabilitation and returning to work after accidents/incidents.
Michael is Owner and Principal at Momentum Safety and Ergonomics based in Queensland in Australia.
He’s a qualified physiotherapist and OHS consultant, with extensive experience in injury prevention, through the development of effective safety management systems, and targeted ergonomic solutions.
We will discuss management of worker rehabilitation in Australia. Michael will talk about the rules and regulations around Workers Compensation and he will also discuss how to create great Return to Work Plans.
In today’s podcast we are joined again by Ian Hendra again. This time he will be discussing how to find the right tools for your business for quality continual improvement systems.
The purpose of this podcast is to describe the history of where some of the more famous tools came from and what they were trying to achieve.
That way, you might have a basis upon which to choose the right one for your business.
In today’s podcast we are joined by Ian Hendra to discuss root cause analysis.
Ian has a vast knowledge in quality, risk, food safety and compliance. He has been on all sides of the compliance game – including being The CEO of a certification body, being on a number of standards committees as well as being a Quality Manager.
In today’s podcast, we are joined by Nicholas Graham Managing Director/Owner of Safety Risk Consultant (SRM) in South Africa. Nicholas is one of South Africa’s leading QHSE Consultants.
In episode 2, we discussed the top 5 lessons from one year of ISO 45001. In this podcast, we have Nicholas Graham joining us to discuss how to transition to ISO 45001, if you haven’t already done this.
In this episode of the quest to QHSE Podcast, Craig is joined by Dr. Rob Long to discuss the problems that may arise in your organisation from implementing a zero harm policy.
In this podcast we will get some top notch training from one of New Zealand’s very best lean professionals, Sean Banayan. The topic is a good one; that is Value Stream Mapping.
Value stream maps are invaluable tools for improving valuable problems. This is also a great tool to raise engagement of your staff.
In today’s podcast Greg Smith from Wayland Legal will discuss whether health and safety management is too obsessed with process and the downfalls of having too many processes. Greg is one of Australia’s leading Workplace Safety lawyers and his critical thinking around health and safety will make you question your own processes and the outcomes you want to achieve.
In today’s podcast we will be giving you some fantastic advice and perspective on that popular lean technique 5S. We are very, very fortunate to have a lean expert, John Watt from Many Caps Consulting based in here in Christchurch, New Zealand.
In today’s podcast we will be discussing the benefits of having corporate social responsibility in your company and the ethical trade index. We will have Lance Brendon guest starring in the show today. Lance is the Managing Director of the certification body DQS Aust/NZ.
In today’s podcast we will be discussing how to use lean improvements to save your company money. Lean improvements is a growing activity for a lot of companies around the world. Today we will learn some of these lean techniques from a Lean Consultant, John Watt from Many Caps.
This podcast outlines some great tips for integrating your QHSE management systems. Your organisation is required to run at least one management system. Namely your health and safety system. That is required by law. But you have many more systems. These could include quality, financial, environmental, food safety, information security, business continuity and a bunch of others. In this podcast, our host, Craig Thornton will discuss the top ways to integrate all of your different management systems.
In this episode, we have Bryan Evans joining us from Houston in Texas. Bryan will be discussing process safety management (PSM) requirements. Bryan discusses his 14 elements and some examples of incidents related to highly hazardous chemicals (HHC) and why it's important to manage these major risks.
This episode is part two in our mini series where we sit down with Andrew Thornhill and discuss the types of questions you should ask in an internal audit. This is an important discussion for anyone with an internal audit coming up. Andrew shares examples with us of questions we should be asking, and why these are important to ask.
If you missed it, check out part one! Andrew Thornhill discusses with us the lessons from one year of ISO 45001.
In this episode, we have Andrew Thornhill special guest starring in this two part podcast. This episode we will be discussing the lessons which we have learnt from the first year of ISO 45001, as well as the transition from AS 4801 and OHSAS 18001 moving to ISO 45001.
Don't forget to look out for Part Two - where Andrew Thornhill discusses the types of questions you should ask in an internal audit.
In this podcast, we discuss whether or not health and safety management has lost its way. Our special guest is Greg Smith, who sits down with us to talk about his new book, "Paper Safe" and the implications of the modern world on health and safety management systems.
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