The Safety Management Show: Recent Episodes
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Companies that put more emphasis on production and the bottom line will still lose revenue because of employee safety incidents.
Having someone on board who’s passionate about EHS pays its own dividends.
In this episode, Todd Waldron, Environmental Health and Safety Supervisor at Comstock Resources, joins us for a lively conversation about being a truly effective EHS leader.
A combat vet and former Air Force firefighter, Todd has over a decade of industry experience and a highly-trained eye for risk assessment. His insights are spot-on.
We’ll discuss:
- Establishing top-down safety procedures that actually get followed
- Building internal relationships and trust to encourage compliance
- Whether safety reward programs really work
- Administratively crippling your workforce with overly detailed SOPs
- Passing the torch
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Management systems are a great way to assess and control environmental health and safety issues within your organization. They help you along the implementation journey ensuring you get buy-in at every level.
So how do you go about using a management system?
The framework to remember: plan, do, check, act.
In this episode, Jackie Baxley , Principal and EHS Practice Leader at HRP Associates, Inc. , talks about how management systems work and best practices for acquiring certifications.
We discuss:
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Working with clients on COVID programs and protocols
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Management systems, like ISO 14,001 and ISO 45,001
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What makes for a good onboarding system
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Advice for new safety professionals
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Hazard recognition and training
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Risk assessments are absolutely integral to implementing safety at the workplace. Simply put, risk assessments are when you analyze your next series of steps in order to evaluate the safest course of action to address the task at hand.
So, how can you develop a suite of risk assessment and mitigation procedures and implement them at your workplace?
In this episode, Darrin Anderson , Environmental Health, Safety, and Security Manager at Nesher Pharmaceuticals (USA) LLC , shares his advice for building effective risk identification assessments and procedures.
We discuss:
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Risk identification assessments and procedures
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The power of safety SMEs
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The danger of safety being an afterthought
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How technology and ergonomics have changed safety
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Safety is not something that can be solved by one person alone. It requires collaboration and buy-in from all levels of an organization.
As the saying goes, it takes a village.
Jason Damm , Health and Safety Coordinator, Metric Environmental , shares why it’s important for safety professionals to be humble and factor in feedback from others when investigating and refining safety plans.
We discuss:
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Troubleshooting how to fill health and safety blind spots
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Collaborating with employees on what safety should look like
- Why stop-work authority sounds more complicated than it is
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It’s better to fix the systematic root of a safety hazard before you try to fix safety attitudes. That’s why a system-based safety approach, where you fix an issue through system alterations, is the best way to launch a safety program.
In this episode, we talk with Jeffrey Citrone, Manager Healt h and Safety Compliance at KAHUNA Ventures LLC, about how to go a bout implementing a system-based approach to safety. Also, he explains why safety professionals need to do a better job of convincing management of the value of safety.
We discuss:
- Why system-based safety beats behavior-based safety
- Making the case to management that safety is cost effective
- Making contacts in the safety community
- The growing popularity of the safety field
Check out these resources we mentioned during the podcast:
- American Society of Safety Professionals
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Risks exist everywhere and unfortunately you cannot eliminate them all. As a result, the most important thing to learn to do is to better respond to recordable incidents and train your employees to avoid them in the future.
In this episode, Mark Sutton , Corporate Manager - Environmental Health and Safety at Parallel Products, shares the tips and tricks he has learned for improving safety within an organization.
We discuss:
- Keeping operations managers focused on safety
- How to approach recordable incidents
- Tips and tricks to improve safety
- Steps for responding to a safety incident
Check out these resources we mentioned during the podcast:
- Safety 24/7: Building an Incident-Free Culture
- OSHA
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You can put out standard after standard and write every safety plan in the world, but the truth is that the real work of safety happens in the gray areas. In reality, working in the field is not as black and white as the standards make it seem.
In this episode, we speak with Josh Densberger, Corporate Safety and Training Manager for MSE Group , about how to sort out when to follow the rules to the letter and when it’s better to use common sense.
We discuss:
- Lessons learned from working in fire services
- Why it’s important to get out in the field
- The goal of failing safely
- Partnering with operations and HR
Check out these resources we mentioned during the podcast:
- NIOSH Heat Safety App
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The key to making safety a priority is having a top-down approach. When field crews see that all company representatives - from the CEO to the supervisors - are adopting a culture of safety, they will feel more accountable to perform safely.
Jeff Larson, Director of Health and Safety at Electric Conduit Construction, joins the show to share how to get buy-in for a safety culture from all levels of an organization and why it’s so important.
Topics covered:
- Safety needs buy-in at every level
- What committing to safety looks like
- The importance of holding people accountable
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If you’re in environmental health and safety, jump in with both feet. Do not stick your toe in the water. Do it with all your heart.
Why? It isn’t about you. It’s about the people you take care of.
Recently on The Safety Management show, Susan Spaulding, Sr. EHS/QC Ma nager at J. Benton Construction, LLC, shared the above advice, as well as how she faced some of the hardest challenges in safety management.
We also chatted about:
- Her exciting current project in the U.S. Virgin Islands
- Shaming, bullying, and a culture of respect
- Safety is truly about saving lives
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Best practices get a bad rap.
It seems like a lot of the conversations today are centered around “why you should move beyond best practices,” or “why best practices aren’t enough.”
And there is for sure some truth to those statements. But best practices are there for a reason, and a lot of times companies either brush them aside, or are so determined to move beyond best practices that they end up getting themselves in trouble.
On this episode of The Safety Management Show, James Desmond, the Safety Director at Blu Site Solutions, talks all about:
- Why a college degree isn’t always necessary for a career in safety
- Why you should treat your safety department as an essential part of your organization.
- How safety departments can go from being reactive to proactive
- Why adherence to best practices may just save someone’s life
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When you’re just starting out in the safety field, it’s important to embrace the idea that you don’t know it all. Fresh out of college, you might think that you’ve got all the information you need — but you’ll soon realize that the most important lessons are yet to come.
In this episode, Julia Wilson, Assistant Regional Operations Manager and Senior Geologist at EarthCon Consultants, Inc., shares some hard-earned lessons for new safety professionals.
Topics covered:
- Advice for someone just starting out in the safety field
- The importance of exercising your stop work authority
- The benefits of switching to electronic forms
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Different companies have different attitudes towards safety. There are those that just want to get new employees certified as quickly as possible so they can put them to work, and there are others who want to build robust safety programs.
Jon Cordoba, Owner of P3 Safety Solutions and Instructor at the OSHA Education Center at ASU, discusses why he thinks more companies should do the latter and why they should strive to build a foundation for employee development.
Topics covered:
- How a proactive culture allows your organization to get ahead of problems
- The importance of consistency in safety messaging
- Tying motivation to safety
- The benefits of investing in training and employee development
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When you sign up for a career in the safety industry, you inadvertently agree to a couple of things.
You may always be seen as “the safety person” there to ruin productivity.
And you may be signing up to witness firsthand, or at least be present in the aftermath, some sort of workplace incident, maybe involving injury or worse.
On this episode of The Safety Management Show, we talk with Daniel Torres. Daniel is the safety director at Skender, one of the top construction firms in the United States, and has literally seen it all, the good, the bad, and the ugly.
Daniel talked with us all about:
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Utilizing technology to help make safety a priority
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Making sure everybody in your organization is prepared for every possible scenario
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Responding to and recovering from a workplace incident that results in injury
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When you work as a safety professional, one of the more frustrating attitudes you run into is that people confuse compliance with safety.
Compliance is not synonymous with safety.
Just ask James Tait, who, in his role as Corporate Safety Director at Schetter Electric, runs into this attitude — and helps guide others past it — every day.
James joins us as our first guest to discuss:
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The difference between safety and compliance
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What he’s learned interacting with OSHA
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How gamification can improve safety and make it fun at the same time
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Safety professionals exist in all sorts of industries. And every single one of them has a unique career, a unique set of challenges, and a unique story. Want to learn from them?
In this introductory episode, Rita Richa, Producer at Sweet Fish Media speaks with one of the hosts of the show, Jacqueline Turlukis, HSE Advisor at Safety Services Company, about:
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Jacqueline’s role at Safety Services Company
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Why the Safety Services Company decided to start a podcast
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What you can expect to hear in future episodes
Have any guest or topic ideas? Reach out to marketing@safetyservicescompany.com.
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