The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast: Recent Episodes
Colin Nottage
Welcome to the Interesting Health and Safety Podcast, brought to you in partnership with Safety FM!
A lot of people see health and safety as a really boring subject. Too much red tape, too many systems and procedures. A lot of things getting stopped by the safety police. Colin brings a different take on this; Ok at times it is still serious but Colin brings the topic to life in an interesting and challenging way. If you are serious about making a difference to your team then this podcast will help you run some great health and safety initiatives. A mix up of short messages, top interviews, opinions and great practical advice. Out twice a week Colin’s different takes on this subject will surprise you, annoy you, make you laugh and cry and remember if you are boring then don’t bother listening. Whether you’re a leader, senior manager, at the sharp end or a health and safety professional there is something here for you. Colin’s mantra is to make health and safety as important as everything else you do because that is what he believes. Thanks for taking the time to check this out
Colin is joined by special guest, Peter, who shares his unique background and career journey. Peter discusses his experiences in the army, police force, financial advising, and health and safety consultancy.
The conversation delves into the importance of data in safety management, the challenges of risk assessment, and the potential of technology to enhance safety practices. Peter also talks about his passion for the safety tech industry and his newly launched podcast focused on safety technology and innovation
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- The discussion emphasises the need for thorough and effective risk assessments, focusing on identifying key hazards and implementing appropriate control measures.
- The use of technology, such as AI and data analysis, is seen as a valuable tool in enhancing safety practices and identifying potential risks more effectively.
- It’s vital to address health hazards in safety management, particularly in industries like construction where exposure to toxins and carcinogens can be significant.
- Creating engaging and informative content, such as short videos, can help raise awareness about critical safety issues like silica dust exposure and promote better safety practices in the workplace.
BEST MOMENTS
"I think one of the things that we're not great at or that we've got a lot of work to do on is data and safety."
"I think a lot of our metrics, a lot of our KPIs need a little bit of work and how we measure data."
"I think there's something quite moral about that. I guess to conclude, what I'm trying to say is that when I've spoken to them, a lot of them have said, if you can help us analyse the data, we'll give it to you."
"But what we can do is really, I suppose, have an audience that we can engage with you know and that's that for me is the most uh the most important bit and you know and and and if you know it's a small number of people but if they engage it's it's got to be right."
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Project Mollitiam - https://www.projectmollitiam.com
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
Colin interviews Amy, a health and safety professional, about her new venture called The Safe Tribe. Amy shares her background in the industry and her journey from working in hospitality to becoming a safety consultant. She explains that The Safe Tribe is an online app designed to be a one-stop shop for health and safety professionals. It offers a safe space for networking and community building, as well as core skills workshops and webinars with industry leaders.
Amy's goal is to create a global community that challenges the status quo and gives safety professionals the confidence and support they need to make a difference in the industry.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- The Safe Tribe is an online app and community for health and safety professionals, providing a safe space for networking, support, and learning.
- The community offers core skills workshops led by experts in areas such as public speaking, conflict resolution, and mediation, focusing on essential skills for success in the safety profession.
- The Safe Tribe also hosts monthly webinars with global leaders in safety, providing insights and expertise on safety leadership and best practices.
- The community encourages member involvement and ownership, allowing them to contribute ideas and scenarios for workshops and content.
- The Safe Tribe aims to become a global community and a go-to resource for safety professionals, offering a variety of resources, partnerships, and opportunities for growth and development.
BEST MOMENTS
"I think having an area where people can come on and just be comfortable to open up and talk is really valuable."
"I've got ideas and I know where I want to take it. I want this to be a global community, a go-to place for all things safety development-wise."
"I think, you know, having that involvement is really important, you know, and getting the community draws a community, doesn't it?"
"I'm really looking forward to next year and seeing where it takes us, making it a well-rounded, beneficial environment for everyone."
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Project Mollitiam - https://www.projectmollitiam.com
The Safe Tribe - https://thesafetribe.co.uk/#:~:text=We've%20built%20a%20member,all%20in%20one%20simple%20app!
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
Colin shares his thoughts on a film he recently watched called "Killer" and how it relates to the field of health and safety. He discusses a line from the film that made him reflect on the importance of focusing on the actions taken before an event rather than solely blaming the individual or investigating the aftermath
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- The damage in health and safety incidents is often caused in the time leading up to the event, rather than during the event itself.
- Focusing on the successes and good work in health and safety on a daily basis can lead to greater overall success.
- It is important to consider factors such as design, planning, budgeting, risk assessments, toolbox talks, and training before an event takes place.
BEST MOMENTS
"The damage isn't caused when the risk is at its highest. The damage is caused in the seconds, the minutes, hours, days, and weeks, and maybe months leading up to the event."
"The more you focus on the successes in your business, then the more successful you're going to be."
"It's very, very easy to blame the individual. It's very, very easy to put the investigation on the event and what happened after."
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Project Mollitiam - https://www.projectmollitiam.com
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
Colin discusses the importance of creating an environment where employees feel comfortable and confident to challenge and contribute, focussing on the need for managers and health and safety professionals to be vulnerable and open to feedback, creating a culture of learning and improvement
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Spending time in the workplace and engaging with employees can help create this environment and encourage them to contribute.
- Treating all events in the workplace as opportunities to learn, such as meetings, inspections, and risk assessments, can lead to more near miss reporting and improvement.
- While it is important to have a process in place for employees to stop work if they feel uncomfortable, truly successful companies have the right processes in place to set employees up for success and ensure safe work practices.
BEST MOMENTS
"If you're looking at how we're going to improve the number of near misses that we have in the business, how are we going to improve the interaction from the people in the business, you've got to spend time out in the workplace with the people."
"Treat all of those events as opportunities to learn. And if you can do that, if you can get people to start to be comfortable to contribute in environments like that, then you'll start to see people contributing outside of those environments."
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Project Mollitiam - https://www.projectmollitiam.com
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
Colin discusses the topics of blame and accountability in the workplace. Inspired by a LinkedIn post about people tripping on a step in a sports ground, Colin explores the idea that while human error may be a factor, there could also be underlying issues with design or construction
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Blame and accountability are important aspects of workplace safety. While it is important to avoid excessive blame, it is also crucial to hold individuals accountable for their actions and ensure they understand their responsibilities.
- Clear expectations and communication are essential for accountability. It is important to clearly define roles, responsibilities, and expectations for all employees, from top management to frontline workers.
- Understanding and managing risks is crucial. By identifying the risks specific to their business, organisations can develop comprehensive health and safety policies and arrangements that address those risks.
BEST MOMENTS
"And fundamentally there was almost somebody, something had happened, something had gone wrong potentially with this, you know, with how this step was either designed or constructed because it was causing a problem when it was actually in situ."
"Do we sometimes get this whole blame and accountability piece a little bit wrong? And do we, you know, there seems to be a big trend at the moment, you know, where you can't say anything wrong about anybody or anything wrong about anything because it's not psychologically safe."
"People need to be accountable for their actions, for what it is that they do. But for people to be accountable, they need to know what is expected of them."
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Project Mollitiam - https://www.projectmollitiam.com
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
Colin talks to David Provan, the creator of the Safety Exchange, a new platform dedicated to connecting the global safety profession. David shares his vision for the Safety Exchange, which aims to provide a safe and supportive community for safety professionals to learn, share, and improve the safety of work.
David also discusses the importance of creating a space where safety professionals can feel valued and valuable, as well as the challenges of managing the platform to ensure it remains a productive and diverse community.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- The Safety Exchange is a platform designed to connect the global safety profession and create a community space for learning and sharing.
- The platform aims to provide a safe and supportive environment for safety professionals to contribute and engage in conversations without fear of criticism or judgment.
- The Safety Exchange has different spaces dedicated to specific areas of interest, such as psychosocial health and safety, safety technology, critical risk management, and safety science.
- The hosts of each space are experts in their respective fields and curate discussions and content to ensure credibility and value for the community.
BEST MOMENTS
"This was really about an opportunity or trying to make an opportunity to connect the global safety profession."
"So, you know, we're, we're hoping that that this can be a place that that works, right? Otherwise, then then then I haven't done my job."
"I think tech technology is pervasive in all our lives… So, you know, what I'm hoping in the safety technology space is that is that people, I think, I think safety professionals need to become technologically literate”
"So, you know, it makes us sort of seek out problems and challenges, potentially more than we do want to seek out wins. But I agree with you entirely. I think, I think this community is very much about sharing what works."
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Project Mollitiam - https://www.projectmollitiam.com
David Provan LinkedIn - https://au.linkedin.com/in/david-provan-forgeworks?trk=public_post_feed-actor-image
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
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Colin returns! The Interesting Health And Safety podcast is here once more with an all-new approach and an all-new raft of invaluable content. In this small, re-introductory episode, Colin explains the new direction the show will be taking, and also shares a brief message designed to help you become more discerning in the new world.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- People are so desperate to reach the bigger goals that they sometimes forget to focus on what's important. Focus instead on the basics.
- Building trust and engendering faith is vital to building relationships. Aim to build trust and create quality at all times.
BEST MOMENTS
'Getting the basics right is quite important'
'An environment where people can speak out is really important'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Project Mollitiam - https://www.projectmollitiam.com
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Colin talks to Thomas Sproston, the Managing Director of nit Ten Engineering and Westley Landowne Ltd, dedicated to occupational safety and helping business people solve complex problems.
Thomas talks about the best ways of solving intricate problems, the value of the designer in ensuring safety and efficiency in complicated processes, and the importance of usability.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Safety procedures and efficiency should be a part of the process as far back as the design process. It's essential to liaise with designers from the outset.
- When we try to get to the bottom of complex health and safety problems, we must always take a holistic, organised approach.
- We have to keep the client or the user at the heart of every part of the experience. Even simple factors such as doors and handles should always be made with the user in mind, and not necessarily the aesthetic.
BEST MOMENTS
'We're starting to see people more comfortable in speaking up'
'You only really find out about things when people start using them'
'That usability is so important'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Project Mollitiam - https://www.projectmollitiam.com
Thomas Sproston LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomassproston/?originalSubdomain=uk
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Paul Ward is a personal development coach with experience working with a variety of clients both in business and on a personal basis. Paul has an extensive background in management, both in-role and on an advisory basis, and has a no-nonsense approach to coaching.
Paul joins Colin to discuss the importance of motivation when it comes to getting the best out of people, and the role that impactful systems and mindset play in the success of organisations.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Getting the best out of people isn't simply about hiring the right people and expecting them to fulfil their potential. There are always ways in which we can motivate further.
- Following a robust roadmap will always allow people to reach their potential in far more effective way. Always plan ahead and focus your aim.
- Being trained in coaching and NLP, and simply being curious, allow us to listen to what people are saying, and specifically identify the issues they're having. It's about being in tune with people.
- Businesses tend not be great at inductions, because it turns into a mere information dump that does not connect with people. It's a box-ticking exercise. It is our responsibility to make these interactions important and encourage challenge.
BEST MOMENTS
'You often find that you are the person who is in the way of progress'
'Too many people are hammering away at this Instagrammable world'
'It's not about having what you want, it's about wanting what you have'
'Our words are clothing for our thoughts'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Project Mollitiam - https://www.projectmollitiam.com
Blacktop Coaching - https://blacktopcoaching.com
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Conrad Buckle is an Emergency Medicine Consultant with extensive local and international experience and interests, and whose passion is the development of high standards of Emergency Care and Disaster Management through interactive web-based learning and teaching, and new technology innovations.
Conrad joins Colin this week to talk about what it's like to work on the significant end of a workplace accident or event, offering a unique perspective as part of the health system.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Health services are in regular close contact with poison and hazardous substance databases, so as to be able to offer the finest and swiftest care available in the event of an accident.
- The health workers transporting injury cases should always be armed with preliminary knowledge so as to be able to offer interim care.
- When accidents occur, tensions are heightened and adrenaline is usually high. We need to be aware and calm and send the people who will be of most use to the health workers at the other end.
- Staff exposure to hazardous substances is also a concern that must be focussed upon. Ventilation systems designed to eliminate contamination are used. Systems are vital.
BEST MOMENTS
'I've gotten used to asking what could have been done to prevent incidents'
'We continue off the first aid that was initially done'
'Most organisations have fairly decent systems in place'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Project Mollitiam - https://www.projectmollitiam.com
Conrad Buckle LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/conrad-kwesi-buckle-4b53769/?originalSubdomain=uk
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Colin discusses the system we can put into place in order to make sure the lesser routines are taken care of, so that we can focus more upon the things that matter.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Safety Remotely is a system in place to help professionals to manage and get on top of the more tedious routines that must be dealt with.
- When the more tedious tasks are taken care of, we can focus more upon the things that matter, and the people out there at the sharp end of the business.
BEST MOMENTS
'We've got to continually challenge, and we have to continually push'
'You have to focus on what matters'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Project Mollitiam - https://www.projectmollitiam.com
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
There are many health and safety professionals who constantly preach about the safety message, but what makes this industry unique in the way it delivers this information? Colin talks about the professionalism in the industry, and asks some probing questions.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- The health and safety sector is unique in that the message is constantly being put out there through any means necessary.
- By ridiculing and posting negatively about failings, we promote our unprofessional side. We must remains positive.
BEST MOMENTS
'When do you ever see a doctor posting a picture of somebody smoking?'
'We should be talking about solutions'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Project Mollitiam - https://www.projectmollitiam.com
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
We only have around 4000 weeks of life, and so making each one count is vital. In this episode, Colin talks about why it's crucial that we do all we can to make an impact during the time we have.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- People fail every day by trying to follow to-do lists. It's time for us to look at it a new way, and build "what we've achieved" lists.
- Setting unrealistic goals are absolving people from responsibility. By placing deadlines far into the future, we shift responsibility onto who comes after us.
BEST MOMENTS
‘Rather than think about the things you have do, look back and reflect on what you've done'
'Every day, these goals prevent us from doing something'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Project Mollitiam - https://www.projectmollitiam.com
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
How rounded are your skills? In this episode, Colin talks about how the skill sets you have need to match the words you're using to influence others.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Being able to talk and influence others is nothing unless we have the skills and abilities to back up what we're saying. Look at the skills we have and analyse the gap. Push forward with becoming a better communicator, but always make sure you have the technical prowess to back it up.
BEST MOMENTS
'It's no good if you're good at influencing if you don't have the technical knowledge to help them'
'If you can do that, then you're offering something of real value'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Project Mollitiam - https://www.projectmollitiam.com
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Colin talks about how people get involved and employed in the Health and Safety Industry, how he became aHealth and Safety expert and mentor, and why particularly at this time more people should be joining the industry.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Rather than a retirement role, Colin took on his job with a vision to becoming a director of Health and safety. We should be employing talented operational staff in Health and Safety and then moving them back to operations so they can have a strong influence from a Health and safety perspective. We need to move industry forward by making sure the leaders of the future have been through the Health and Safety role.
BEST MOMENTS
'Prior to me getting involved it was very much about a role that people retired into.’
‘And actually the people that have real potential to lead the business in the future, should they be coming into the Health and Safety role for a few years?’
‘I’d love to hear from people who have either done that in their careers or are looking to do that with the organisations that they can influence.’
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Project Mollitiam - https://www.projectmollitiam.com
Pete Rushmer - https://peterushmer.com
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, Colin joins Pete Rushmer of Fleet Geeks, to talk about the benefits of peer-to-peer groups, and how being a part of a community can help us to overcome doubts, find inspiration, and aid in the challenges we face as part of the business world.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Sharing your wins and discussing your setbacks with likeminded people can help us to view events from a different perspective. You can't solve a problem with the same thinking that caused the problem. Gaining the views of others can unlock whole new ways of working. The problems that we face are most often not solve through solutions, but by asking questions. Only by identifying this root cause can guidance begin.
BEST MOMENTS
'Every single week we talk about the wins'
'We have people that are so giving'
'Not only do we celebrate success, but we give people a chance to talk about their issues'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Project Mollitiam - https://www.projectmollitiam.com
Pete Rushmer - https://peterushmer.com
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
As Colin reveals in this highly personal episode, surface appearances can be deceptive, especially when it comes to people, and that we should never take our mental wellbeing for granted.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Even when people appear to be capable, confident and competent on the surface, they can be deeply troubled inside. Earning a living is necessary, but we must make time for life outside of work. It's about striking the correct balance between these two worlds.
BEST MOMENTS
'Underneath there are all kinds of frailties and vulnerabilities'
'It's so easy for the things we think are important, to get in the way of what's actually important'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Project Mollitiam - https://www.projectmollitiam.com
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In the world of business, it can be tempting to push ourselves harder to get more done, but as Colin explains in this week's episode, it's also valuable to take time out to reflect and relax.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Time spent on relentless tasks will eventually take its toll on you. Recharging your batteries can help you to appreciate why you work so hard. Looking after yourself is crucial in keeping you tip top and fit for the work ahead. Don't consider work to be all there is.
BEST MOMENTS
'Everybody wants part of your time'
'It's made me realise how important the downtime is'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Project Mollitiam - https://www.projectmollitiam.com
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
How well do we understand the controls we have in place, and how relevant are they? Are we confident that they are being effectively used? As Colin discusses this week, it might be time to take a whole new look at the controls we use, and determine if they're truly needed.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Some controls do not serve a useful purpose, or are completely ineffectual. They simply serve to clutter the processes and make things more difficult. We can't hope to know our businesses inside and out unless we get out there and talk to the people at the sharp end of the business.
BEST MOMENTS
'I want to challenge you'
'Stop crossing your fingers and touching wood'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Project Mollitiam - https://www.projectmollitiam.com
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In the third of a three-part series, Colin talks to David Gold, the founder of Gold-Knecht Associates, and Stuart Hughes, the head of safety for the Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Grand Prix.
Stuart and David have authored a paper on COVID and the impact it has had upon the safety profession, and in this episode they discuss the ways in which the profession and sector need to change in the wake of their findings.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Professionals push safety at people constantly proactively, but safety should be a necessary byproduct of business if we have the right culture and strong leadership. We should never be satisfied with where safety is as a sector. We must always be looking for the places providing the next innovation, how we can move with complex worlds, and how we can remove clutter. Safety First as a concept does not necessarily lead to success. If safety comes first and productivity second, then the company cannot survive.
BEST MOMENTS
'We spend quite a lot of time talking in an echo chamber'
'The problem with zero is that it has a hole in it'
'There's no value in a checklist when it's a checklist of a checklist'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Project Mollitiam - https://www.projectmollitiam.com
David Gold LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/goldknecht/?originalSubdomain=ch
Stuart Highes LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/stuart-hughes-75743551/?originalSubdomain=uk
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In the second of a three-part series, Colin talks to David Gold, the founder of Gold-Knecht Associates, and Stuart Hughes, the head of safety for the Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Grand Prix.
Stuart and David have authored a paper on COVID and the impact it has had upon the safety profession, the participants involved and how the process worked, as well as some of the details of the findings.
KEY TAKEAWAYS The study was undertaken with the highest level in mind, including members of the Institutional Occupational Safety society - council members or presidential members. Whenever focus groups are created, it is vital that one dominant voice isn't formulated, that varying members are brought in to reflect a broad opinion base. It is only now that governing bodies are asking businesses to treat COVID as any other hazard instead of singling it out as a special concern.
BEST MOMENTS
'We had the right target to make this thing work'
'We decided to do this at a fairly high level'
'In our mind, they were leaders of occupational safety and health'
'Part of what we've put into the discussion piece is a challenge to the profession'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Project Mollitiam - https://www.projectmollitiam.com
David Gold LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/goldknecht/?originalSubdomain=ch
Stuart Highes LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/stuart-hughes-75743551/?originalSubdomain=uk
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In the first of a three-part series, Colin talks to David Gold, the founder of Gold-Knecht Associates, and Stuart Hughes, the head of safety for the Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Grand Prix.
Stuart and David have authored a paper on COVID and the impact it has had upon the safety profession, and join Colin to talk about their groundbreaking work. In this first part, David and Stuart talk about their backgrounds in safety, and how their experiences have shaped their viewpoints.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Change always happens fastest and at its most robust, when it is built upon collaboration. When we work together, we raise ourselves up, and also the profession. The achievements of those who have come before us is invaluable. Though processes may change, the core message of safety never changes. In the future, the physical disease of COVID-19 will dissipate and disappear, but the scars of the psychosocial disease caused by it will not.
BEST MOMENTS
'It's important that we take as much knowledge and experience from those who've come before us'
'I want to be able to talk to that next generation os safety professionals'
'We can steer some conversations and let people talk to us'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Project Mollitiam - https://www.projectmollitiam.com
David Gold LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/goldknecht/?originalSubdomain=ch
Stuart Highes LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/stuart-hughes-75743551/?originalSubdomain=uk
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Colin joins a panel of experts, including Employment Lawyer, Matt Ginger, Sales Trainer Paul Kilby, Graphic Designer Paul Tompsett, Psychologist Lee Chambers and Menopause Specialist Bev Thorogood, to talk about why men need to be involved in the menopause conversation.
KEY TAKEAWAYS While men may not be physically impacted by the effects of menopause, we can still learn a lot by using curiosity and understanding to learn more about the subjects for ourselves. Men do not have to learn a strict routine or set of guidelines when it comes to menopause, as it affects women in strikingly different ways. It's more about understanding how the impacts can affect women. In the last few years, there have been far more cases in which employment tribunals have had to face the effects of menopause. Irrespective of the law, employers need to ensure that menopause is on their agenda. Men cannot be the solution to the problem. Women are not essentially broken, and therefore do not need fixing. Men must simply be open to helping in any way possible, and open to educating themselves furhter on this sensitive issue.
BEST MOMENTS
'It might not directly impact us but we can learn an awful lot'
'Often it requires you to step into things that might be a little bit more uncomfortable'
'It isn't a woman's responsibility to teach us about the menopause'
'We're not broken. We don't need fixing. We just need understanding and support'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Project Mollitiam - https://www.projectmollitiam.com
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sometimes, by asking the right questions, the answers can provide unintended consequences - positive or negative. In this episode, Colin talks about why we should be looking for positive proactive indicators in our organisations.
KEY TAKEAWAYS If all we focus on is the issue in front of our eyes, then we can sometimes fail to notice the underlying issues and other problems that may be resolves as a consequence. We must try to take a more holistic approach to assessment in our business in order to gain a better understanding of how we can solve issues in a more comprehensive way.
BEST MOMENTS
'You need to look at positive proactive indicators'
'Are we focussing on the right things?'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Project Mollitiam - https://www.projectmollitiam.com
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
When it comes to our personal finances, we are constantly told to refine and reduce until we are paying for just the essentials. But should safety be treated in the same way? In this episode, Colin explains why refining and reducing can help us to streamline measures and make things far easier for ourselves.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Cutting back on the things we do not necessarily need allow us to achieve state of purity when it comes to our business. Look at the processes we have in the business, and do the best we can to understand risks and reduce the chances of serious harm.
BEST MOMENTS
'We should try to get rid of the things we don't need'
'It's about understanding what your risks are'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Project Mollitiam - https://www.projectmollitiam.com
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, the show is taken over by special guests, Elisa and Crystal, who answer the thought-provoking question, should we celebrate International Women's Day?
The answer may surprise you…
KEY TAKEAWAYS Representation is vital and should be encouraged, but the conversation and inclusion should stretch far beyond a single day each year. International Women's Day itself is a positive movement, but it rarely feels genuine. it is as though society believes it be enough to simply make progress once each year. Gender should never be associated with a person's competence levels. We should tackle the underlying issues that prevent women from being in certain positions in society.
BEST MOMENTS
'What about the rest of the year?'
'If you want to encourage young girls and women to look at this as viable, then be honest'
'I don't feel that my gender is ever relevant to my competence'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Project Mollitiam - https://www.projectmollitiam.com
Crystal Danbury - https://crystaldanbury.co.uk/?page_id=32
Elisa Lynch - https://www.linkedin.com/in/elisalynch/?originalSubdomain=ie
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In the first of a new mini-series, Colin presents part one of 'Diary of A Safety Guy', a running commentary of ideas and events designed to give you a better insight into the routines and challenges faced by safety professionals.
KEY TAKEAWAYS It's useful to talk to people, but even more useful to listen, engage and share in the journeys of others. This is where the learnings can be found. Communication always works better if it can flow freely. Try to declutter the process of having conversations, and make it easier for voices to be heard. To be successful in business, it's not just about working hard, but working at the right time and being thankful for the people and support we find.
BEST MOMENTS
'It's a reflection of the things we've been up to'
'Life is about learning all the time'
'Take time out to spend quality time'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Project Mollitiam - https://www.projectmollitiam.com
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, Colin challenges you to examine what your personal development plans look like, and asks you to re-evaluate your goals in order to be at your best.
KEY TAKEAWAYS It's very easy to think about developing yourself, but a solid action plan can hold us accountable, and spur us on to take action. Working on ourselves allows us to see what we're capable of. Sometimes, we can surprise ourselves by the things we can achieve.
BEST MOMENTS
'This is about so many different aspects of your life'
'Don't be afraid'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Project Mollitiam - https://www.projectmollitiam.com
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Whether inside of work or outside of work, it's worth taking a moment to think about how important communities are to us. In this episode, Colin considers this question, and passes along the consideration to you.
KEY TAKEAWAYS When we create environments that are open and honest, it allows free expression, and encourages us to do better. This principle also applies to the workplaces we nurture. If our people enter to find a community spirit, it will encourage them to do better, and to perform better.
BEST MOMENTS
'How good are you at doing something similar at your place of work?'
'If you make people feel valued, and valuable, then you'll get so much more out of the experience'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Project Mollitiam - https://www.projectmollitiam.com
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Colin talks about some personal experiences relating to induction, the results of which have provided a series of insights regarding this topic, that many may find invaluable when it comes to inductions of their own.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Inductions should endeavour not to be condescending affairs. First impressions last. When people join our organisations, we should instil a level of trust in their abilities as soon as possible. Inductions are an opportunity to begin a dialogue with people. Make sure the conversation is a two-way experience, instead of one-way traffic.
BEST MOMENTS
'It's how you tell people sometimes'
'Don't set a bad example on day one'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Project Mollitiam - https://www.projectmollitiam.com
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Colin talks about traffic management risk assessments, and offers some insights into the areas we should consider so as to make sure that our people remain safe at all times.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Risk assessments are generally carried out on roads, but there are many more places that we should examine. Our people should always have the correct training. With their knowledge and expertise kept in constant development, we mitigate much of the risk. If people show a continued disregard for rule-breaking, then it is on us to get out there and take responsibility - to act as a leader and to correct the path they are on. The root causes may lie within our control.
BEST MOMENTS
'I want you to think about the people'
'Manage what you can manage. Control what you can look after'
'You've got to look in wards as well as outwards'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Project Mollitiam - https://www.projectmollitiam.com
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Colin talks to Lindy Scott, the founder and Creative Director at Amber, The Health and Safety Communication Platform, about the creative ways in which she is engaging with workers, as well as the journey that has brought her to where she is today.
KEY TAKEAWAYS We have to make sure that important messaging isn't lost amongst the drip feed of communication that is all too common in the workplace. Messaging is far more effective if we introduce the human element. Even down to artistic considerations, such as art style, always look for better ways to engage. The first step in helping an organisation to better connect, is by entering the organisation and learning all we can about them, their culture, their values, and the way they operate.
BEST MOMENTS
'It was about listening to what users wanted in terms of creativity'
'The human side of safety is about getting people home to their loved ones'
'It's about taking a holistic approach'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Project Mollitiam - https://www.projectmollitiam.com
Lindy Scott LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindy-scott-hsdc-ce/?originalSubdomain=za
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, Colin is joined by Peter Jenkins, a safety specialist, and the Group Health And Safety Manager for Dalziel, to discuss his incredible journey in business, and the topic of risk and risk perception - how it affects us as individuals, and how it has evolved across time.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Impostor syndrome can be an issue amongst health and safety professionals, but it can be overcome by focussing upon what can specifically be done to give ourselves the confidence to deliver policies. We all have different perceptions of what risk is, and have all been affected in numerous ways by the events that have taken place across the last two years. The safety landscape is ever-evolving, and no one's perspectives should be discounted. Especially in high-pressure situations, the biggest strength of any health and safety professional is to be able to adapt to the unknown.
BEST MOMENTS
'You're never going to get one-size-fits-all'
'What do I need to give me the confidence in myself to deliver these policies?'
'The ability to adapt to the unknown is our biggest strength'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Project Mollitiam - https://www.projectmollitiam.com
Peter Jenkins LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ptmjenkins/?originalSubdomain=uk
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
As the festivities of Christmas and the new year come to an end, it's time to start thinking about going back to work. In this episode, Colin talks about what that picture might look like for the year ahead.
KEY TAKEAWAYS We must consider how we are going to raise levels of engagement and motivation when our people return to the workplace. The worst thing we can do is to encourage our people to simply return to work as though the break never happened. This is a fantastic opportunity to engage and reboot.
BEST MOMENTS
'Happy new year! I hope you had a fantastic time!'
'This is a great opportunity to get people to take that bit of a step back'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Project Mollitiam - https://www.projectmollitiam.com
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
With Christmas now behind us, it's time to look to the new year, but it's also important to reflect on the year gone by, taking in the lessons learned, and considering which teaching we can carry over into 2022.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Many guests and listeners have made the Interesting Health And Safety podcast a huge success in 2021, with their insights and communications. Great things are about to happen in 2022, and it promises to be a year of engagement and insight across the board.
BEST MOMENTS
'It's been an unusual year. It's been a challenging year'
'Some absolutely wonderful content'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Project Mollitiam - https://www.projectmollitiam.com
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Colin drops in to say thank you to all the listeners, and wish you all the happiest of Christmas breaks!
KEY TAKEAWAYS This is a wonderful opportunity to reflect upon the year we've had - where the wins were, and what we need to improve. Make a plan to engage with your employees and make it a priority. The more we open dialogue channels, the more successful we'll be.
BEST MOMENTS
'It's been an absolute pleasure and I've met some amazing people'
'Keep on pushing - keep on challenging'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Project Mollitiam - https://www.projectmollitiam.com
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Verena Seibert-Giller is a psychologist, human behaviour specialist and user experience expert, and joins Colin on this episode to talk about what makes a good document, process and procedure - one that provokes far more user-engagement, and which can lead to a greater level of interaction from our people.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Documents often suffer from being overstuffed with information that is simply not required. We must look at the use cases very carefully, and tailor the information to the situations in which the document will be reached for. Documents meant to engage, should try to include, where possible, words and terms that are easily searchable, and be instantly categorisable through the use of margins. Pictures can be helpful when used sparingly, but if not used effectively can lead to confusion and a sense of over-complication. The most important thing, when designing a document, is to first identify who it will be for, exactly, and then to identify that subsection's skill-set.
BEST MOMENTS
'Documents should drive behaviour'
'Keep it simple and stick to the use cases'
'A document should not be a beauty contest'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Project Mollitiam - https://www.projectmollitiam.com
Verena Seibert-Giller LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/verenaseibertgiller/?originalSubdomain=at
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Living in the moment is important, but it's also wise to look ahead sometimes. In this week's show, Colin discusses why planning for the future is to be encouraged, especially as the new year approaches.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Looking at the longer game and challenging the business, examining the strategy and your goals, is crucial in order to keep the lifeblood of your business pumping. Businesses tend to be at their weakest and most fragile when we focus upon the day ahead instead of the months ahead.
BEST MOMENTS
'To be really successful, you've got to be challenging the business'
'The business is looking to you to fill that gap'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Project Mollitiam - https://www.projectmollitiam.com
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
With the changing of the seasons comes a change in the challenges we may face. This week, Colin talks about the value of preparation, and why being that extra bit more attentive could spare you an extra degree of stress during the winter period.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Having a robust set of checks in place, and being more attentive than usual, can help to alleviate any extra stresses caused by the challenges of colder weather. Factors such as lighting can need to be re-examined due to changing natural light. The same can be said for heating systems. Ensure any timers are updated. Walkways and steps must be well maintained, gritted, and clear of spillage. Again, early preparation is key to reducing danger for your people.
BEST MOMENTS
'We can significantly reduce the potential for accidents by becoming more attentive'
'Now's a really good time to hone in on this'
'Take breaks in warm places'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Project Mollitiam - https://www.projectmollitiam.com
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Colin is joined by leadership executive coach, chartered occupational psychologist, and certified business principle psychologist, Amanda Potter.
Amanda discusses the concept of psychological safety, why it is crucial as a practice and how we can better equip managers to embrace it, as well as the importance of letting people's voices be heard.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Psychological safety is something we must endeavour to better acquaint senior management with, but we must be careful so as not to overload or overwhelm, as embracing it is crucial. We rarely allow the least experienced of people to have their voices heard, especially in a meeting setting. It can be incredibly useful and empowering to allow these people to be heard. Psychologic al safety is, at its core, about feeling included, safe enough to make interpersonal risk, about making suggestions and being part of something important. The strongest part of the brain is constantly scanning our environment for potential threats. As it is responsible for our fight-or-flight, it causes a natural negativity bias.
BEST MOMENTS
'When we feel safe, we're more likely to take interpersonal risk'
'It might give you an emotional reaction, a trigger that brings on impostor syndrome'
'Psychological safety is about feeling included'
'The better you get at it, the harder you have to work at it to maintain it'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Project Mollitiam - https://www.projectmollitiam.com
Be Talent - https://www.betalent.com/our-team#
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
After observing some of the front line workers in his profession and engaging with them on a one-to-one basis, Colin reflects upon the skills that make business great.
KEY TAKEAWAYS The finest proponents of safety practices are those who believe in what they're been taught about safety and why it matters. When people understand and apply safety practices well, they make the world of business that little bit better.
BEST MOMENTS
'There are some really great people who work in business'
'It's so great to see that people take on board the training that we've done'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Project Mollitiam - https://www.projectmollitiam.com
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, Colin talks about risk assessment, and why it might be time to overhaul our systems, so that we may more accurately measure the confidence we have in the procedures in place.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Typical examinations of risk assessments in the workplace are generally rather dull and uninspired. What is missing is the confidence in the controls. Rather than assessing the effectiveness of the controls, we should also measure the confidence we have in the controls.
BEST MOMENTS
'This is something we often overlook'
'If you're putting something down, it's got to have value'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Project Mollitiam - https://www.projectmollitiam.com
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Taking a role in a company is similar to the All Blacks philosophy on joining the team, where players "wear the jersey with pride". As Colin discusses in this week's show, we create legacies by taking such pride in the roles we are given.
KEY TAKEAWAYS When we are given a role in any business, it's about making it your own, but also wearing that "jersey" with pride. When you walk out into the field, you have a real chance to make a difference. Focus on the things that matter, and begin creating your legacy today
BEST MOMENTS
'Do something that will create a legacy'
'Start wearing it with pride'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Project Mollitiam - https://www.projectmollitiam.com
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In this very special episode, Colin talks to the amazing Candice Mama, the survivor of one of the most traumatic ordeals imaginable, about the ways in which she found redemption and peace in its wake, and how she learned to prioritise her emotional wellbeing.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Each and every human being has the potential to be incredible, and has the opportunity in life to truly change the world. In the wake of trauma or adversity, it is always worth taking a look within ourselves, and asking what we could have done differently. Always remember that we are part of a team. This means we must not just take support and guidance but offer it. Forgiveness is the act of taking back control of your own emotions, so that you can move on and have control over the life ahead of you.
BEST MOMENTS
'You can be whoever you want to be'
'It's about lighting a match in people'
'At the age of sixteen I had to come to terms with my own mortality'
'I wasn't crying for myself. I was crying for the human being sat in front of me'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Project Mollitiam - https://www.projectmollitiam.com
Candice Mama - https://www.candicemama.com/about
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, Colin talks to Crystal Danbury, the director of safety and insurance for Sainsburys PLC, and who formerly led safety at companies such as Openreach, Geodis and Camelot.
Crystal talks to Colin about the ways in which safety has evolved since the beginning of her own journey, the importance of being on the front lines of business in order to better assess requirements, and how to refine processes.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Management are embracing the concept of talking to the people on the frontlines in order to get a better understanding of what is needed, and how things work more effectively. Meetings are crucial in establishing communication, but we also need to find time to step away and learn something new each day. Judging potential impact is about examining whether or not the processes we put into place truly help others, and keeps them protected. Our people are constantly coming up with ideas about how we can make things better. We can refine the process by constantly asking where we can not just add, but subtract unnecessary and extraneous procedure.
BEST MOMENTS
'I'm making sure people and harm is right in the centre of safety strategy'
'None of us were talking about the reason why tasks were on the list in the first place...'
'You can't do safety without being on the frontlines'
'We're a slave to inboxes'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Project Mollitiam - https://www.projectmollitiam.com
Crystal Danbury - https://crystaldanbury.co.uk/?page_id=32
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In a very special edition of the show, Colin introduces you to an all-new show - The Project Mollitiam Show - a monthly digest of the goings on in and around Project Mollitiam itself, and in the company of Colin's co-host, James McPherson.
KEY TAKEAWAYS The Project Mollitiam show will feature updates on the organisation itself, as well as more focussed topics on what's hot each month. The aim of Project Mollitiam is to provide a resource for those in search of health and safety guidance, and also a place where learnings can be taken from likeminded individuals. It doesn't matter where we are in our safety journey - whether beginner or journeyman - we all have value to bring.
BEST MOMENTS
'We have some great message to put out there'
'What's been interesting is watching people grow'
'You have value'
'When we grow, we don't want to lose the togetherness'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Project Mollitiam - https://www.projectmollitiam.com
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
We've arrived at episode 200, and to mark the occasion, Colin is here to tell you a story that illustrates perfectly why you don't always have to be the most knowledgeable one in the room. Sometimes, there are other skills that matter way much more...
KEY TAKEAWAYS As a health and safety professional, you don't need to be a pillar of wisdom. You simply need to be the best facilitator you can be. It's helpful to speak to everyone in the business, including those on the front lines, and identify what a good day looks like what a challenging day looks like and what frustrates them.
BEST MOMENTS
'You don't need to be the expert'
'Let's do this differently. Let's do this another way around'
'Sit down and talk to the people who are doing the job!'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Colin talks to Paul Clark, CEO of HSE Global Series, a global events series in North America, Middle East, United Kingdom, Europe & Africa, providing physical-based events that supply the world’s leading content and senior leadership engagement.
Paul discusses the work that the HSE Global Series Foundation is doing in spreading the safety message to all corners of the world, and building a place to where professionals can turn in the event of challenge.
KEY TAKEAWAYS The consensus of the global series - its driving force - is to spread positivity, and to promote safety and wellness for all. Fatalities and incidents happen all the time, but there seems to be no clear chain of support that helps sufferers in the immediate aftermath of such trauma. Future ambitions are for charitable events to be held in order to raise money in order to create a fund for all safety professionals to draw if incidents occur.
BEST MOMENTS
'I only keep the joy and happiness I have in life by giving back to others'
'We're putting on events that really help people'
'What can we do to give back when and if these incidents happen?'
'We create environments where people can learn and gain insights into how they can reduce incidents'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
HSE Foundation - http://hsefd.com
HSE Global Series - https://hseglobalseries.com
Paul Clark LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulclarkbsw/?originalSubdomain=uk
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In this week's show Colin discusses the reasons why it's vital to include the people in your business when it comes to the risk assessment process.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Management and leaders often assume that business operations are running along at a steady pace and at a certain level, but this might not always be the case. By involving the people on the front lines in the risk assessment process, we raise everyone's expectations to the same level, which is far more productive.
BEST MOMENTS
'Generally speaking, employees get the job done'
'If you involve them, you're bringing both parties back up'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sometimes, during interactions, we fail to identify the third-person perspective - the one from which we can see a complete conversation from the outside. In this episode, Colin talks about the value to be found in "taking the third seat" when it comes to discussions and outcomes.
KEY TAKEAWAYS By taking an outside perspective on a conversation, we are better able to see the best outcomes for all parties. If we are providing a service, gaining an understanding about how our clients feel about us during good times and bad, can make a real difference to our conversations.
BEST MOMENTS
'Try to step into the shoes of the person who's looking in from the outside'
'Is there something that we're missing?'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Colin is in a reflective mood today, as he marks the two year anniversary of the Interesting Health And Safety podcast - the insights gained, the connections made, and the success enjoyed by the show.
KEY TAKEAWAYS A podcast, or any endeavour like it, is nothing without its audience, and no audience has been more helpful or inspiring than the Interesting Health And Safety's audience. Little matters more than the connections you make. Two years ago, Colin and the show were small, but grew. Now the reach is huge, and the safety message is being heard by many more people than he could possibly have imagined.
BEST MOMENTS
'I'd like to thank the people who've joined the show'
'We are nearing 100,000 downloads!'
'This is a legacy that is going to run and run and run'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, Colin is joined by international guest, Kessie Stevens, founder of Artis Solutions in Alberta, Canada, who discusses her journey through the world of safety in the workplace, why a more flexible approach is the future, and why awards do not necessarily reflect the real face of an organisation.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Learning about safety is an ongoing pursuit. It begins with a spark of interest that grows and develops, driving us to want to know more and do better. In the new world of work, it's important to provide our people with a more flexible environment. We have spent so long in shaping a new way of working, it's unfair to expect that the world can simply go back to the less efficient methods it used to employ. Companies seem to want to be the best through awards and certification. But often, these forms of recognition do not tally with the actual way they operate and do not reflect the inner culture.
BEST MOMENTS
'It's so important to have that flexibility'
'People are scrambling to find good safety people'
'Good health and safety is just good business'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Kessie Stevens Twitter - https://twitter.com/kessiestevens?lang=en-gb
Artis Solutions - https://artissolutions.ca/our-team/
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, Colin talks about the power of communication, and how by keeping those channels open, we create solutions for all.
KEY TAKEAWAYS If we offer a solution, and receive a solution, it results in both parties having two solutions. The power of communication is much more than just exchange. Take the opportunity, when you have issues, to get out into the workplace and talk to people and share solutions.
BEST MOMENTS
'I want you to imagine you're in a room and you have an orange, and your friend has an apple...'
'The power of communication is about more than just swapping stuff'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
We often have cause to examine the gifts and skills of others, especially in business, but how often do we reflect upon our own skills? In this show, Colin talks about why self-examination is important, and can help you to discern the best areas in which you can improve.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Identifying areas of improvement are only half of the task. We then must identify the method by which this improvement can take place. Development should not be merely restricted to business skills. Are there any other areas in life that need attention?
BEST MOMENTS
'I'm getting a chance to coach and mentor other people - but I'm really getting a chance to think about myself'
'Introduce into your life those things that make you a better individual'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In response to social media musings upon how we can move on from COVID from a health and safety perspective, Colin shares his thoughts on what the workplace can and should look like in our near future.
KEY TAKEAWAYS The UK government's guidance has not been the clearest, which has muddied the waters when it comes to best practices. Workplace safety measures should be a collaborative effort, with input from the people at the sharp end of the business.
BEST MOMENTS
'You have a duty of care towards yourself and the people working around you'
'There's no real, clear, distinct answer to any of this'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, Colin talks to Moni Hogg, a health and safety consultant, and Safety Differently leader based in New Zealand, about the revolutionary ways in which she is empowering workers on the front lines by allowing them to develop their own systems and processes, and how by taking small steps towards change, we can begin to see the possibilities of real progress.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Openness, honesty and trust are the pillars upon which a business becomes ethically safe. By creating transparency, we empower and enable all. By giving the power to the people at the front end of business, and allowing them to write their own systems and processes, we empower them to take responsibility, and to have some skin in the game when it comes to safety. When operational management take an incremental step they are able to see what is possible. Nine times out of ten, change is implemented soon afterwards. Bureaucracy tends to snowball once it begins, and can overwhelm the process of working safely. We must strip away the unnecessary elements and focus on what matters.
BEST MOMENTS
'It's stepping beyond the fear, and having a go!'
'I'm safety born and bred'
'What does it look like - to create a safety framework around that?'
'We need to create a level playing field and a partnership ethos'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Moni Hogg Twitter - https://twitter.com/monihogg?lang=en
Moni Hogg LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/moni-hogg-4a55012b/?originalSubdomain=nz
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
What kind of pronoun does your business have? Do we have a business that feels inclusive and more team-oriented, or is it a business that's more segregated?
In this episode, Colin talks about the value in finding out what type of business you have.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Simply listening to the ways in which people talk about your business will give you a far better idea about how it is perceived. If your people are describing your business as a "they" business, then something is missing in the culture of the company, and it's up to you to figure out where that is.
BEST MOMENTS
'Do they say "we" are going to be doing this? Or is it a business that uses "they" a lot?'
'If you've got a "they" business, then you've got things to do!'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Colin is in discussion with Bev Thorogood, a fellow podcast host, and the owner of Floresco Training, about the importance of raising awareness of the menopause in the workplace, and how it can impact such a huge percentage of the people we work with.
KEY TAKEAWAYS The menopause should not be viewed as some kind of illness, but as a natural progression in life that happens to all women. Even elements such as uniform, which can be ill-fitting, can exacerbate the symptoms associated with menopause, creating a very real health risk. Under health and safety law, there is a responsibility to look after the health, welfare and safety of employees. Safety professionals may not always be aware that someone is going through the menopause. The person may not even be aware themselves. We must be observant and caring at all times. Diversity in terms of gender in higher positions has never been more necessary within organisations. Women are far more open to discussions, and bring new perspectives on the requirements we need to implement across the board, especially in terms of discussions such as menopause.
BEST MOMENTS
'It's about being observant. It's about caring'
'We need to look at this on a scaled-down, one-to-one basis'
'It's not black and white. These things never are'
'We need a culture change, not only in menopause, but also in how women are perceived'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Bev Thorogood LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/florescotraining/?originalSubdomain=uk
Floresco Training - https://florescotraining.co.uk
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, Colin talks about getting back on our feet - the challenges and circumstances that have left many business owners and professionals knocked for a loop - and how we can look forward to the year ahead with optimism and positivity.
KEY TAKEAWAYS With such upheaval in the workplace during the last 18 months, the onus of trust has been handed to the people at the sharp end of the business. We must keep that trust going. Business has come roaring back into life, meaning that suddenly we are faced with stress. Now is the time to get out there and talk to your people.
BEST MOMENTS
'People have had to adapt. People have had to change'
'What might seem really important to you today isn't as important as getting out there and talking to your people'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, Colin talks about active listening, and how by taking the time to really hear what people are saying, can add so much more value to every conversation.
KEY TAKEAWAYS We are so conditioned to make sure that we are the ones putting our thoughts and opinions over, when in fact, by truly engaging with others, hearing what they're saying, we enrich every interaction. We get so pulled into the distractions and responsibilities of the day, that we can lose sight of what's really important in life.
BEST MOMENTS
'Take time to concentrate and spend time with an individual'
'What an amazing experience it was to not just put my opinion over, but really listen to the other person'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Colin discusses the ways in which businesses can move from a culture of dependency to interdependency - the holy grail of positive culture.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Processes allow us to grow and scale and thrive as a business. By establishing these, we make huge improvements and positively impact growth. People are they key assets in growth. We need to make better use of the people themselves. Listen to their voices, and create a new sense of interdependency, instead of a management -led approach.
BEST MOMENTS
'If we're going to grow and scale we need to get some structure'
'As we grow, we become more reliant on people'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, Colin talks about the surprising lessons he's learned from his newly-acquired chickens, and how workplace environments matter.
KEY TAKEAWAYS When we introduce new people to our environment, we must make sure we are considering their needs, and supplying them with a way to engage better. It's not enough to place people in places and expect them to find their own way to success. We must treat each person as an opportunity for greatness.
BEST MOMENTS
'It's been fascinating to see how they've settled into their environment'
'Do we provide them with all of the tools?'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This time round, Colin reflects upon what has happened in the last few months - the gifts that life has brought in the shape of the people he has connected with, and the prospects that keep us moving forward.
KEY TAKEAWAYS People are the gift that keeps on giving. Voices, opinions, ideas and perspectives are what makes life worth living. By meeting and connecting with others, we enrich our lives and open ourselves up to new possibilities. Variety makes life challenging, but colourful.
BEST MOMENTS
'We're going to get a chance to bring normality back into our lives'
'I get to meet amazing people'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, Colin talks to James Pomeroy, the group health safety environment and security director at Lloyd's Register, to discuss the ways in which COVID has changed our lives and our society - in some ways for the better.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Trust is a huge factor in every business sector, but even more so in the wake of COVID, where business owners are now trusting their people to work in a variety of new environments. As businesses, we often try to impose one-size-fits-all solutions, when in reality, we should be more comfortable with letting individuals be safe on their own terms, and to be more forward thinking. Businesses are transforming for the better in the wake of COVID, moving more online and to remote methods. This is also changing individuals for the better. The important things in life are not chasing the extra dollar here and there, but the family we leave in order to do it. We should embrace what's real and stop to reflect on the many gifts in life.
BEST MOMENTS
'Work in a framework, but let people get on with it'
'Good performance doesn't always mean working nine to five. Good performance is in the results'
'You've got to give people space'
'We need to question why we're standardising versus why we're not encouraging innovation'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
James Pomeroy LinkedIn - https://uk.linkedin.com/in/globalhsemanager
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, Colin tells you a story that will help to illustrate why it’s so important to challenge the traditional ways of communicating, and embrace the methods that can make our communication far more effective.
KEY TAKEAWAYS When we actually consider the types of common communication and rate their effectiveness, we come to realise that nothing is really that perfect. Written communication and vocal address are far less effective than we sometimes believe.
BEST MOMENTS
'How do we communicate? What are the methods?’
‘The ways in which we communicate least effectively are the ones we use the most!’
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, Colin talks to Stephen Harvey, Principal Safety Business Partner at Moreton Bay Regional Council in Brisbane, about some of the practical ways in which he is applying his learnings over recent years into the workplace.
KEY TAKEAWAYS We must endeavour to make documentation and instructional materials accessible not for the professionals who write them, but for the users at the end of the line. Communication skills are at the heart of business. If we can engage others, then the messages flow far more freely. To create change in safety, we need forward thinking, creative thinking, and the bravery to execute these decisions. Professionals can better engage if they form and nurture a narrative that allows others to realise the importance of why safety matters.
BEST MOMENTS
'In terms of culture, it's the greatest thing we ever did'
'We found that there are no real methods for channelling risks'
'Break down the barriers and really engage'
'Safety is part of the job'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Stephen Harvey LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-harvey1888/?originalSubdomain=au
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This time, Colin talks about pre-start briefings and meetings, a tool being sorely under-utilised in the business sector, and how they can positively impact the tasks ahead.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Many misunderstand the effectiveness of pre-start briefings, or handle them in an entirely misjudged way. They are very important in establishing the narrative of the jobs ahead. Rather than delivering dry, monotonous diatribes that come across as preachy, look at the positive things we've learned from the past, and how we can best impact the future
BEST MOMENTS
'What is the story of the job?'
'There's some fantastic opportunities when things don't go right!'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, Colin talks about the value in building communities, and the importance of contributing our gifts for a collective good.
KEY TAKEAWAYS As a solo entity we are strong and creative, but we are more empowered by being part of a team. By linking our own gifts with those of others, we create real value. Communities aren't built overnight. The time we take and the efforts we put in are all worth it in the end.
BEST MOMENTS
'Community is really important - being part of something that's trying to do something of value'
'A community doesn't just happen overnight'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, Colin shares a small set of case studies in which things may have not worked out as planned, and the importance of testing and trialling the emergency plans we put into place in our organisations.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Sometimes we put measures into place in order to deal with emergencies that arise, not taking into account that in the real world, these solutions may not actually work. Testing and trialling is so crucial when it comes to emergency measures. We have to be sure that when they're called upon to be put into use, they function as planned. It can make all the difference in the moment.
BEST MOMENTS
'You need to be doing a trial, a drill, so that you can learn what goes well, and what needs to improve'
'Treat your emergency planning seriously!'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
It's a small episode of reflection today, as Colin looks back over the preceding months and its effects, and also to the future and the importance of taking time for ourselves.
KEY TAKEAWAYS It's worth taking time away from the routine and the work, in order to remember what's important and realign with what makes life enjoyable. We have to give ourselves the time away from the pressures of "doing", so that we can remember what life is all about.
BEST MOMENTS
'The last few months have been really transformational'
'I hope that you've had the opportunity to have a break'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Colin talks to Clive Lloyd, a psychologist specialising in Safety Leadership and Culture development, about his new book, Next Generation Safety Leadership, which seeks to illustrate practical applications that bring theory to life through case studies and stories from his years of experience in high-risk industries., and to provide safety leaders and their organisations with a compelling case for change.
Clive joins Colin to talk about the book, as well as to explain the Stockdale Paradox, and what it means...
KEY TAKEAWAYS We should never sugarcoat situations in order to maker them easier to swallow. Far better to approach situations with honesty and clarity, and work through them. It is vital that we treat contractors as well as we treat our own employees. Strive for an adult-adult relationship instead of an adult-child relationship that is so common. It's far better to make our teams own ideas instead of forcing compliance upon them. The best way of achieving this is to make them part of the idea's genesis in the first place. Leaders that hear bad news need to understand that it is given to them for benevolent reasons, and can help us all to learn and grow.
BEST MOMENTS
'Don't blame, don't react, don't defend. Take it as you find it and work your way through it'
'Understand psychology through human beings and use it to build cultures'
'We as leaders need to recognise the challenges'
'Instead of Safety Differently, just do safety better!'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
GYST Consulting - https://www.gystconsulting.com.au/clive-lloyd/
Next Generation Safety Leadership (Amazon)
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Today Colin talks about documents - who they're for, why they're produced - and why they matter to some and not to others.
KEY TAKEAWAYS A document is a single use message that might mean something to someone and something completely different to others. This means that it is only valuable to that one person. If we want to make a document more valuable, then we need to involve the recipients in its creation. Collaboration and input will provide this value.
BEST MOMENTS
'Documents sometimes have different meanings to different people'
'They don't reflect the way that people do their job'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In this very special show, Colin shares a live LinkedIn discussion he took part in, alongside Christian Harris of Slip Safety, and Jonathan Dempsey of Red Laces, surrounding the topic of effective communication in health and safety, and why it matters.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Risk and safety have a bad image in some quarters. We can solve this by making sure that when we communicate, we're not only talking, but listening. Clarity in communication is critical. There should be no room for misinterpretations, as messages are designed to ensure safety and wellbeing. People need to feel what it is that you're bringing to the table. It's not enough to simply say what you mean. You have to make people feel what you mean. Communication is a two way street. Always seek input, even from those with less experience. We all bring a different perspective to the proceedings.
BEST MOMENTS
'One way we can better communicate is by spending time in the field'
'We all have a role to play'
'The feeling bit is the important bit'
'We can definitely learn from the whippersnappers!'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Slip Safety - https://slipsafety.co.uk/team/
Christian Harris LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/christian-harris-slip-safety/?originalSubdomain=uk
Red Laces - https://www.redlaces.co.uk/jonathan-dempsey-bsc-hons-pgdip-dip
Jonathan Dempsey LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/j-dempsey-mba/?originalSubdomain=uk
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, Colin talks to Teresa Swinton, founder of Paradigm Human Performance, about the importance of long-term thinking, how to better approach the practice of risk profiling, and why collaboration between departments should be normalised in order to better effect safety for all.
KEY TAKEAWAYS It's vital that businesses play the long game, instead of only focussing upon short term gains. Longevity is the key to success. Risk profiling helps us to much better understand and ascertain the needs of our business. We must undertake this with diligence and insight. Business must learn to break out of their silo behaviour. Different departments need to better communicate and cooperate with each other if we wish the business to run as a more effective whole. It is regrettable the that spotlight is only really shone upon safety departments when an accident occurs. Safety should be a perennial, never-ending conversation.
BEST MOMENTS
'There should be longer term approaches taken'
'We don't apply the same standards to health and safety management'
Fixing the worker is the easy option'
'It's looking for the clues which will help you to see what's going to go wrong next'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Teresa Swinton LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tswintonphp?originalSubdomain=uk
Paradigm - https://www.paradigmhp.com/blog/
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, Colin talks to Nippin Anand, the founder of Novellus Solutions, dedicated to facilitating learning events with the view to promote innovation across safety-critical industries.
Nippin talks to Colin about the importance of finding the best solutions in the world of safety, as well as why perspective and inclusivity are driving safety forward.
KEY TAKEAWAYS It is vital to give our workers a voice. A business grows and thrives through collaboration and insight. If we fail to give our workers the chance to be heard, we are doing our businesses a disservice in the long run. Perspective is everything in terms of truly understanding others, but it can also be a challenging thing to achieve. When any decision is made in business, it is always the result of careful consideration and planning. We must take this into account when they are actioned. We must trust that others have given this action their consideration. We must seek to find different ways of gleaning information from people when things go wrong, and use these information harvesting strategies to make processes and systems better.
BEST MOMENTS
'It's great be in a sector where you can talk to people'
'Reason is the way to understand the world'
'I'm a huge fan of embracing different perspectives'
'By unpacking differences, we can progress further'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Novellus Solutions - https://novellus.solutions/about/
Nippin Anand LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nippin-anand/?originalSubdomain=uk
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In this week's show, Colin talks about the value of authenticity, and discusses why perfection might not be the right thing to aim for in life.
KEY TAKEAWAYS People are far too focussed on perfection in business, but human beings were never meant to be flawless, therefore perfection is a tough thing to attain. If you get something wrong, the best way to deal with it is to take accountability and own the moment. It's far better to be authentic, than to strive for perfection.
BEST MOMENTS
'You don't need to be perfect, but you must be authentic'
'Be firm, be fair, be consistent'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, Colin talks to James and Phil, two members of Future Leaders, a group established by IOSH in order to help people starting out in their health and safety careers, through advice, guidance and information.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Through combined wisdom, guidance, advice and access, IOSH's Future Leaders seeks to enable those new to the safety world, in becoming the best professional they can be. The group does have some restrictions in terms of age and experience, but these are designed to ensure that the group best benefits the next generation of health professionals. The main purpose of the group is to reassure everyone that though you may be young, you always have skills and talents to bring to safety. By embracing the next generation of professionals, we create a far more diverse, innovative way of thinking, and imbue safety itself with more creative ways of thinking.
BEST MOMENTS
'It's about helping people get started on their health and safety journey'
'Basically, you have to be a young professional - young and fresh in your career'
'It's about helping us understand and get better at what we do'
'We can't be future leaders on our own - everyone has to be involved'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Future Leaders - https://iosh.com/membership/future-leaders-community/steering-group/
Future Leaders - https://iosh.com/events/future-leaders-conference/
IOSH Future Leaders Community LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8989508/
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This time, Colin talks about why you should always remain agile and adaptable in business, and in life, and how swiftly acclimatising to new circumstances can put you ahead.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Listen to your customers. Make sure you're spending time hearing and understanding the people who make your business work. Health and safety professionals thrive upon providing value. It is how we find success. Always try to exceed the value that people expect. Stay abreast of new technologies, and embrace the ways in which they can help you to remain constantly connected.
BEST MOMENTS
'Never has there been more of a need for businesses to be adaptable'
'If you can get to the bottom of that, you're going to be of value'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, Colin talks about the importance of understanding int he workplace, and how we can better communicate with empathy to help us to build better relationships.
KEY TAKEAWAYS When we engage in a conversation, we must remember that it is a two-way street. Remember that the person may have things they wish to talk about, or points to get across. Communication ids also the art of making the other person feel as though they are being heard and understood.
BEST MOMENTS
'It's important to think of the person you're trying to communicate with'
'The most important message is the one that's coming back - the inbound message'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
One of the most important things in safety, is that we do not spend time apportioning blame, or pushing away accountability. Instead we must seek to take ownership of issues whenever possible, as it is through this that we can more swiftly rectify and move on.
KEY TAKEAWAYS If an issue arises, we should be looking at ourselves, the part we played in why, and how we can make things better from now on. Self-reflection and examination is incredibly important. If we point the finger and turn away, we cannot learn.
BEST MOMENTS
'It's far too easy to blame other people'
'I want to challenge you as individuals'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
www.projectmollitiam.com
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, Colin talks to Craig Mathie, the managing director of Bournemouth 7s, an event that combines sports and music, about the approach he takes in ensuring large-scale public events like this take place smoothly and safely.
KEY TAKEAWAYS COVID is a challenge we must all face, but it also risky to centre our entire business operation around it. Assess the risks, look for the challenges, and overlay COVID on top of this. We must take ownership when issues arise. Leadership is far more effective, and challenges can be better overcome when we face the problems and take responsibility. Events such as these take forward planning, and the dedication of a small, but focussed team, who realise the importance of safety at all times. One of the biggest risks in event planning these days is that it may fall into disrepair in the wake of COVID. We must ensure a lifeline is provided in order to see this valuable sector survive.
BEST MOMENTS
'I want to make the events industry a better and safer place to be'
'The UK events industry is world-leading in its approach to safety'
'Don't lose sight of the hazards and the risks'
'Events are great for people and for culture. These things are immeasurable'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Craig Mathie LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/craigmathie/?originalSubdomain=uk
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In this week's show, Colin asks you to think about the ways in which technology is changing us as a society, and how we can use it to its best advantage.
KEY TAKEAWAYS There is so much information and content out there , which is forcing us to make decisions far more quickly than we're used to. We must seek to discover ways to make people engage and embrace our messages of safety in the same, attractive ways as employed by social media.
BEST MOMENTS
'How do we embrace technology to get the people in our organisations to embrace our messages?'
'Change the way that we're working and engaging'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In this week's show, Colin talks to Steven Shorrock, editor of the Hindsight Magazine and the senior specialist of safety and human factors for Eurocontrol, supporting Air Navigation Service Providers throughout Europe with human factors, safety investigation, systems thinking and practice.
Steven and Colin discuss learning from Work As Done, and how analysing work in high pressure areas of the business sector has led to a greater understanding of how this practice impacts safety as a whole.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Hindsight is a democratised platform, featuring input and articles from those at the sharp end of the business, which provides a far more valuable set of insights. Air traffic levels have dropped to around 50% of their former operations, but many do not realise that the pandemic has seen system-wide effects, including reduced revenue, which impacts resourcing. Skill-fade has become a challenge, as skills do fade from mis-use, especially in the aviation industry. This has led to an increase in off-site training, including simulations. Wellbeing presents a unique challenge, especially in human factors and ergonomics. It is constantly trying to find a balancing act between wellbeing, safety, productivity and efficiency.
BEST MOMENTS
'In some cases it's like you're on a permanent night shift'
'There are issues of wellbeing which in some cases are intangible'
'The safety risks remain, regardless of traffic'
'The workload and the risk are not positively correlated'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Steven Shorrock LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/steveshorrock/?originalSubdomain=fr
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In this episode, Colin discusses the importance of caring passionately about what we do, and how by doing so, we can gain knowledge along the way and make the world a safer place for all.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Every time we try to create something beautiful, we have a chance to make it more magical by pouring our passion and our care into the project. If we come from a place of love, caring and attention when it comes to safety, and truly care about people first, we will always learn, grow and create a safer world.
BEST MOMENTS
'If you believe in health and safety, and you care about the people you serve, your actions will learn so much more'
'I can't say enough about how important it is to love what you do'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Colin talks to Paul Clark, CEO of HSE Global Series, a global events series in North America, Middle East, United Kingdom, Europe & Africa, providing physical-based events that supply the world’s leading content and senior leadership engagement.
Paul discusses the ways in which we can empower ourselves on a daily basis, and by doing so, ensure that the world is a little bit better each day.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Affirmations should form a part of our everyday practices. This can help with positive reinforcement, and can serve to improve our environments each day. Whatever we do, and whichever form it takes, the world needs more love. It is our job to make sure we perpetuate this loving input whenever possible. It is part of our nature to pass judgment on others, but this only ever leads to guilt and pain. We must acknowledge the need for acceptance, and allow others to exist without comment. Be consciously aware of everything and anything that takes place - good and bad. The good is an opportunity to be grateful, and negative experiences all contain lessons and opportunities for growth.
BEST MOMENTS
'it's about looking around at the family you have and people you have, and recognising the value there'
'We always feel better when we take control'
'As humans we are very judgmental of other people'
'You can always be aware of the experiences that you've had'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
HSE Global Series - https://hseglobalseries.com
Paul Clark LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulclarkbsw/?originalSubdomain=uk
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In all walks of life, and in most sectors of business, we sometimes find ourselves presented with gatekeepers - those who are reluctant to move with the times and grow through development. In this episode, Colin talks you through the dangers of being a gatekeeper, and why progress is always a positive thing.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Many people in safety a gatekeepers in terms of preferring traditional methods of practice. But as the world changes, so too must the methods of keeping it safe. Newly-developing ideas around safety are creating fascinating and varied perspectives on why and how we can do better.
BEST MOMENTS
'You don't get it right all the time'
'They're not allowing themselves to be influenced, or allowing themselves to look at things in a different way'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, Colin is in conversation with Garry Crosby, ex-Royal Air Force operative and business growth specialist, about the ways in which organisations can engender honesty, openness and trust among their workforce, and how this can benefit productivity and safety in the long run.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Everyone has a different viewpoint and perspective about what success looks like. Finding that perspective is key to creating a great culture in our organisations, by allowing our people to achieve their own vision of success. Introducing culture into a workplace is not an instant thing. It requires dedication and patience. The time taken will be well rewarded in the long run. A blame culture does not help anyone to improve. It merely breeds fear and disrespect, and goes some way towards making sure that people do not act as part of a team. Admitting we can learn from errors of misjudgments is the key to learning and moving forwards. This can represent a deep cultural shift for many, but it is the key to being better.
BEST MOMENTS
'Everyone has a different definition of what success is'
'The better you get, the harder you have to work'
'It's narrow-sighted to look at the individual and make them the scapegoat'
'I like to see business owners reflect when things haven't gone wrong'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Garry Crosby LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/garrycrosby/?originalSubdomain=uk
Action Coach UK - https://actioncoach.co.uk
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
It's a new year, and it's great to be back with you all!
In this short, sharp welcome to the new year, Colin looks with hope towards the challenges and opportunities ahead.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Success for this year will require a positive outlook and an ability to spot the opportunities when they arrive. Consistency and doing the right thing will be the best tools to get us through the challenges we may face in the near future. But hope is on the horizon.
BEST MOMENTS
'The only way you can be really successful is to stay positive'
'One of the most important things is to talk to people'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
How's your head...?
Colin welcomes you to a new year, and an exciting outlook for the Interesting Health And Safety podcast, as we begin the year anew, with fresh challenges and hopes for 2021!
KEY TAKEAWAYS When returning to the workplace, try to hold some kind of session in order to welcome your people back, and get them thinking about their welfare, and that of the people around them. Think about your objectives and do your best to involve your people whenever possible, so that we all remain safe and informed throughout the challenges of 2021.
BEST MOMENTS
'Work your way through the process of getting things up and running!'
'Talk about what it means to work in your business'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Colin reflects upon the tumultuous year gone by, but also looks with positivity and confidence towards the opportunities that lie in the year ahead.
KEY TAKEAWAYS There have certainly been darker moments, but there are always positives and benefits in their wake. It's up to us to focus on the things that matter. 2020 has shown us what the worst-case scenario looks like for our businesses. It's also provided us with a determination to never be in this position again.
BEST MOMENTS
'2021 is going to be such a better year'
'It allows us to focus on the things that are really important'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Christmas is a time for children and family, but we must remember to take time out for ourselves. Colin's here with a festive message to remind you all to take good care of yourselves over the festive period, and why it's okay to give yourselves a treat after a most trying year.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Colin's own gift to himself this year is a far healthier outlook, having lost over 4 stone. The results have seen him develop hitherto untapped levels of energy and optimism. It is okay to give yourself some care, both mentally and physically, if you need it. Treat yourself to some self-care, and make sure you're fit and ready for the challenges of 2021.
BEST MOMENTS
'I've got some real discipline into my life'
'My gift to me this Christmas was to get myself in a better place'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Colin is joined Simon Cassin, a director at OUCH Training, who believe that a safe working environment benefits everyone. Simon joins Colin to discuss the ever-more prescient topic of ethics and morality in the health and safety sector.
KEY TAKEAWAYS In order to truly take safety forward, we must fully consider what it is we believe in. We must question the paradigms. We must question all assumptions. Health and safety professionals must ensure that we are working to prevent harm to people. Secondary to this is to prevent harm to the business. Perfecting the right language allows us to build the correct framework. We must have a structure against which is built the framework of safety, clearly defined by the right terminology. The most important consideration in the ethical and moral side of safety is to keep the conversation going. We must never discount a viewpoint, and must remain open to working with everyone to ensure a fair and balanced landscape.
BEST MOMENTS
'If I can't say why that's a good decision, then maybe I ought not to make it'
'We need more definite understanding of what we mean by harm and safe'
'If you go all one way, or all another way, you're going to come across problems'
'We are heroes before the accident'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
OUCH Training - https://www.ouchtraining.co.uk/the-ouch-oracle/simon-cassin/
Simon Cassin LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-cassin-frsph-cmiosh-miirsm-gife-60506846/?originalSubdomain=uk
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Just a brief greeting this time to let listeners know that during the Christmas break, the show will be slowing slightly, with one episode per week, until the New Year, when exciting plans are afoot!
KEY TAKEAWAYS This years has seen its share of trying moments, but ultimately it has also provided rewarding moments. The show has grown in popularity, and energy is high for 2021! During the Christmas Holidays, the Interesting Health And Safety podcast will be released once a week, but will ramp back into production with new content and all new interviews in the New Year.
BEST MOMENTS
'We've got some absolutely amazing stuff coming up...'
'Stay safe over the period!'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Colin talks about the chimp we have inside us all, how it can manifest itself in emotional bursts, and how we can tame the beast from time-to-time, especially in the workplace.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Often we react emotionally to a situation, without the element of reason to guide us. This is our raw, primal personality emerging, or our chimp! The moment we feel ourselves becoming upset or emotional, do your best to recognise what's happening, and endeavour to calm down before you do something you'll regret.
BEST MOMENTS
'It's your chimp that's screeching'
'I can remember losing it!'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This time round, Colin talks to Tanya Hewitt, a specialist in Human and Organisational Compliance, who has been working with the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission for many years, and who has recently set up her own consultancy, Beyond Safety Compliance.
Tanya discusses the concept of human and organisational compliance and what it truly means, as well as the importance of respecting the voices of those who rely on us to help when it matters.
KEY TAKEAWAYS We must follow the path that makes us happy, not necessarily the path that makes us wealthy. Sometime it's far better to embrace the subjects we're passionate about, than chase the dollar. It is incumbent upon us to ensure that reporting is fair and accurate, and that it is always listened to with faith. If someone raises a concern, we must treat this concern with respect. Everybody makes mistakes, including ourselves. Everyone also must have the chance to apologise and make things right. It is a requirement of leaders to give our people the chance to put things right, and to learn. It is far better to nip a problem in the bud, than wait for it to bloom into something far more serious before we tackle it. Listen to the voices advising us, and look for their concerns. It can save us much time in the long run.
BEST MOMENTS
'I passed my A-levels with ease - I got two E's!'
'What an incident reporting system essentially does is give workers a voice'
'We all have strengths, and we need to work collaboratively to get to something better'
'I'd rather know about the problems when they're small, than be surprised by a catastrophe'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Tanya Hewitt LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanya-hewitt-55804529?originalSubdomain=ca
Tanya Hewitt Twitter - https://twitter.com/hewitttanya?lang=en
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Colin talks to Jessy Gomes, an award-winning safety leader and member of the IOSH council, with a proven track record of commercial success and development, including management of construction design, health and safety, processes, communications and people.
Jessy discusses the importance of challenging the safety sector when it comes to crucial issues such as diversity, especially in the construction industry, the importance of mentorship and guidance, and how she visualises the future of safety in the workplace.
KEY TAKEAWAYS As safety professionals we must always be learning, but more importantly, we should also work to build upon the lessons we have been taught so far. Refine our knowledge and we build our skills. Construction is renowned as being a male-dominated sector. It will take a creative female perspective in order to disrupt this balance, but the benefits will be enormous. We need a far more holistic view when it comes to the safety industry. Effective safety is built upon better communication and better collaboration. Organisations must not be complacent. We must make ourselves uncomfortable in order to learn more. When we step outside of our comfort zones, our sense become heightened. Therefore, we must challenge ourselves regularly in order to maximise our potential.
BEST MOMENTS
'This is where I really learned about the safety culture'
'Learning is such an important part of life'
'We must understand that we can change the landscape of health and safety'
'The safety industry is huge number of individual cogs that make up a bigger machine'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Jessy Gomez LinkedIn - https://uk.linkedin.com/in/jessy-gomes
IOSH - https://iosh.com/
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In this special 150th edition of The Interesting Health And Safety Podcast, Colin takes time to reflect upon the incredible highlights of the last six months. As Colin discusses, even though the world has been turned upside down, there have still been moments of opportunity, and valuable lessons learned from connections made.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Sometimes health and safety is a case of marketing. Perfecting the message is one thing, but marketing it effectively can help it spread. Willpower solidifies the mindset we need in order to make positive, lasting impact. We may not always succeed on the first attempt, but we must endeavour. As professionals we are always learning. The best way of learning is to talk, and especially with the people in the sharp end of the business, those who recognise the real safety needs.
BEST MOMENTS
'We need to continually push new ways, new boundaries, and engage with people'
'Keep on the ball. Keep on pushing for what is right'
'Spend more time out in the workplace talking to the people who are doing the job'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Colin is joined this time by special guest, Jem Hills, an international keynote speaker, who specialises in helping companies to assess risk in shipping, and who now devotes himself to helping people to be the best versions of themselves.
Jem discusses his incredible life and career, the fascinating world of risk assessment on the seas, and the importance of visualising success, setting achievable goals, and how to perform at our peak.
KEY TAKEAWAYS The shipping industry is one that is prone to attack from outside sources. In certain zones, piracy is still very much rampant, as is the threat from terrorists. Careful risk assessments are necessary and required before any routes can be finalised. Jem has been on the vanguard of creating a structure and framework of how shipping risk is assessed. An instrumental role was played in standardising shipping risk and making it something quantifiable for generations to come. Contingency planning is essential. We can never know every variable, but we can examine each outcome and do our best to provide contingencies. These eventualities may tessellate with resulting outcomes and help to provide a rapid response. Life is built upon choices. If we are not happy in a certain area of our lives, then we must use our free will and change the outcome. Careers are very much built this way. We must not settle for second best. Make good choices and follow the instincts that guide us.
BEST MOMENTS
‘Let’s get the risks out on the table and then look at how we mitigate those risks’
‘Risk assessment is likelihood and consequence’
‘When something does go wrong, you need the right people already lined up’
‘Find something in life that you enjoy doing. A lot of people end up in a place they don’t enjoy'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Jem Hills LinkedIn - https://uk.linkedin.com/in/jem-hills-78249511
Jem Hills - https://www.jemhills.com
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
One of the main areas of focus when new staff arrive, is the time taken to instruct them on the health and safety aspects of their role. But as Colin discusses in this week’s show, should we be challenging the need for this instruction at the outset, and how can we improve the experience?
KEY TAKEAWAYS A better approach to inducting new staff, could be to simply ask them to go out into the workplace and talk to the people who work there already. We can gauge our own happiness with our safety measures by asking ourselves if conversations with new employees would be beneficial, productive, and welcome.
BEST MOMENTS
‘Are there better ways of inducting people in the things that are really important?’
‘If you’re comfortable and confident with letting conversations happen, then you’re in a great place to be’
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This time, Colin is joined by Ron Gantt, owner and operator of Reflect Consulting Group and the vice-president of SCM Safety, providing safety and health consulting and training to a wide variety of organisations on topics ranging from safety management and leadership, system safety, human performance improvement, and regulatory compliance.
Ron discusses the importance of establishing a working environment that makes people flourish, as well as the positive benefits of drift, and how we can better align our business goals to create harmony.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Safety professionals must seek to define their roles in terms of what it truly means to society, and how it benefits society. If this ethos can be better communicated, then it will be more interesting to people. Many different pressures are put upon may different workers in differing ways. This can lead to friction and a more diverse set of goals. It’s important for management to step back and not just mediate, but facilitate, aligning goals to ensure we are running more smoothly and as a team. Drift is often seen as a negative thing, but we need to alter our perspective. We need to understand that people change the way things operate because they seek to improve things. We need to make it easier for people to do things the right way, and difficult for people to do things in the wrong way.
BEST MOMENTS
‘We always have a conception of what’s happening in our workplace. I help them see a little bit more of what’s going on on the ground floor’
‘Improving the world is thing that a lot of companies are into, and if we can align health and safety more firmly, it’ll be more interesting’
‘We have to think of this as a living thing. Think of it as a doctor giving a prescription to a patient…'
‘If we better identify what we’re tryin to achieve, then it helps you think outside the box'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Ron Gantt LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ron-gantt-7a1b7741/
Ron Gantt at Safety Differently - https://safetydifferently.com/author/rongantt/
SCM Safety - http://www.scm-safety.com/team/ron-gantt-m-eng-csp-arm-cet/
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sometimes we focus far too much on the things we haven’t achieved, when we should be talking about the areas in which we’ve found success. In this episode, Colin talks about why, especially when it comes to our safety achievements, we should be taking time out to celebrate the positive effects we have.
KEY TAKEAWAYS A success we share is a success that empowers. By lionising our achievements, we energise ourselves, and others, to do better. If we mark out achievement, we inspire others to push further. The rewards of success are the driving force behind further success.
BEST MOMENTS
‘I’d like you turn things on their head a little bit and really look at the things that are going well’
‘Good practice fosters more good practice'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
After being recently inspired by a volume of philosophy, Colin reflects upon the importance of value over growth, and of quality over quantity, and why we should always base every decision upon ensuring we provide the most value.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Solving your clients’ problems, and making sure we add value at every opportunity, should be the number one focus at all times. It’s the same in health and safety. Spend more and more time out in the business, talking to the people who make your business work, and better understanding how we can put the right measures in place.
BEST MOMENTS
‘It’s about offering the best service you possibly can to your clients’
‘Being better is actually better than being bigger!’
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
With much controversy in today’s safety world regarding the many systems being implemented in order to change the culture of safety, Colin is joined by Dominic Cooper for a wide-ranging, insightful conversation about why the culture of safety needs to change, the principles behind some of safety’s most lauded systems, how the psychology of safety affects the sector, and why any shifts in thinking require a set of change management processes to ensure that any significant change initiatives are rolled-out in a controlled and systematic manner.
KEY TAKEAWAYS In the pioneering days of safety, initiatives were based around conversations and looking at things from the worker’s perspectives. In many regards, these concerns are still at the heart of any system. Treating people as equals, and nurturing a partnership with safety leaders must be at the bedrock of any safety conversation in a company. Encourage conversation, dialogue and collaboration. The fundamental safety issue is that the way in which companies manage safety doesn't entirely fit into any safety system’s mould. Many in business see their people as the problem. Mental health issues are increasingly being cast into the remit of safety officers, which is fundamentally wrong. Safety professionals have an entirely different skill-set, and no specialist training in such a sensitive area.
BEST MOMENTS
‘Behavioural safety worked! If you did it properly, it worked! And it’s still the same today’
’Let’s not have a culture of fear. Let’s treat people as human beings’
‘It’s not about having any controls. It’s about having the right ones’
’They say people are the solution and traditional safety says people are the problem, which I disagree with'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
B-Safe - http://www.behavioural-safety.com
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Today’s episode is a decidedly showbiz affair, as Colin talks to Ruth Denyer, the group head of health, safety and insurance risk management at ITV, and soon to take up the safety mantle at Netflix, about the many challenges faced in the creative industries, and how diversity and artistry have an effect upon the decisions made in the entertainment sector when it comes to safety.
KEY TAKEAWAYS The main challenge of safety in the arts, is that ideas take form in all sorts of (occasionally) wild ways. Visions require experimentation and consideration. Safety’s role in this is to find a safe way to express these visions. We cannot always communicate our concerns with raw data. Sometimes we need to find more creative ways of expressing the hazards we face. It’s about tailoring the information to the person. Safety teams must be seen not as policers, but as enablers. We are there to help creativity flourish in a safe environment, and to help the business to be successful as a result. It’s important for people to own the risks they take during any activity. This may manifest itself in creative ambition or making a profit, but whatever success looks like to you, consider the risks that you are willing to take, and own those risks.
BEST MOMENTS
‘What I’m passionate about is always learning’
‘We’re trying to make creative visions happen, and give people the tools to think about things themselves’
‘We need to take away the jargon and talk in a way that’s concise, clear, to the point, and really engages with people’
‘Let’s not be someone who goes and checks the controls are in place. Let’s help design and think about, and manage that risk at the very early stages'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Ruth Denyer LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ruth-denyer-82641130/?originalSubdomain=uk
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
After recent developments in the news, Colin discusses the need for greater stringency when it comes to fire safety and evaluation in this critical area of every business.
KEY TAKEAWAYS In a recent news story, a fire assessment officer was prosecuted for not having the correct qualifications, despite the fact that he had served as a fireman for many years. Competent, qualified professionals are a crucial requirement for your business. Don’t take on the responsibility unless you are fully qualified and accredited. The consequences can be disastrous.
BEST MOMENTS
‘Fire safety is such a critical aspect of your business and premises’
‘Don’t treat fire safety lightly'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In this week’s show, Colin talks to author, safety advocate and fellow Safety FM podcast host, Brent Sutton, about his fascinating new book devoted to Learning Teams, and how they can be used to great effect in order to drive improvement and create impact in our own organisations.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Safety investigations have the unfortunate duty to put people back into the centre of the event or accident. This can lead to a re-traumatising effect,, which is very unhealthy. Accountability in the wake of an event, is crucial in not just moving past the event and working through any improvements required, but also in reinstalling a vital sense of trust that an event may cause to be lost. Learning teams encourage functional diversity. It encourages people to explore their view of something. This leads to narratives taking on new meanings as it is experienced through new perspectives. As adults in the process of learning, development comes not in the form of layered learning, but through the piecemeal process of filling gaps in our learning. We must first recognise the gaps before we can take on the learning.
BEST MOMENTS
‘A lot of investigations put people back at the centre of the event’
‘Because of our fixation on prevention, we actually create a bias’
‘A hazard doesn’t have emotion’
‘It’s “Why” than can make a difference between life and death'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Brent Sutton LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/brentsuttonnz/?originalSubdomain=nz
Safety Associates - https://www.safetyassociates.co.nz/our-people.html
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
There is true power in transparency. After being inspired by others recently, Colin talks this week about how openness, honesty and transparency can empower our organisations.
KEY TAKEAWAYS There is real power in creating not just truthfulness, but openness. Having a transparent approach will show this to the world. Negativity deserves to be transparent. We can’t hope to grow and move on from the things we do badly, unless we’re honest about them.
BEST MOMENTS
‘You’ve got to be prepared to be able to see and listen to the bad news’
‘Having transparency will allow you to problem solve a lot easier'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Colin is joined by speaker, coach and podcaster, Andrew Barrett, about the fascinating subject of the ways in which health and safety is managed within high profile industries, and how insurance companies are helping his quest to challenge the issues being found.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Leveraging investment is all about finding the similarities between industries and employing proven solutions, allowing for less capital investment - always an attractive proposition. One of the greatest opportunities for relieving the burden of illness and disease is in agriculture, and yet the sector contains very few safety professionals. Critical controls work well in technical systems. There is, however, no evidence to suggest that critical controls work any better than other risk management approaches. Individual business should be looking at their businesses and examining the areas in which there are risks, and then talking to insurers about how these problems can be solved.
BEST MOMENTS
‘I say that I’m a reformed health and safety professional’
‘What we realised is that we actually have to ask better questions’
‘Don’t take my word for it that it’s good - treat it as a hypothesis’
‘I’m a connector of the different parts of the system and experts in order to try and answer those questions'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Safety On Tap - https://www.safetyontap.com
Andrew Barrett LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-barrett-58a1071b/?originalSubdomain=au
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In this episode, Colin shares the ways in which we can empower others to make small, achievable improvements each day, and by doing so, improve our organisations in incredible ways, and how we improve people themselves by employing the same technique.
KEY TAKEAWAYS We allow growth to flourish in people if we tell people to make small, achievable improvements each and every day. If all the people in our organisation strive to make one small improvement every day, then our business improve in countless ways each day, week, month and year. If we seek to help someone in a small way each day, we encourage others to do the same, and empower people across our organisations.
BEST MOMENTS
‘Every single day do just one thing to make an improvement’
‘What can you do tomorrow, next week or next month, to consistently try and improve and help people?'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sidney Dekker’s Safety Differently principles cause a stir when they arrived, calling for a halting or pushing back on the bureaucratisation and compliance of work. The movement sees people not as a problem to control, but as a resource to harness.
But exactly how do organisations begin to implement such a groundbreaking methodology? In this week’s show, Colin discusses the practical applications of Safety Differently with Josh Bryant, the general manager of Mitchell Services.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Procedurals should be the first thing to be examined through the lens of Safety Difference. Following this, the language we use needs to change. People should not be seen as the problem, but the answer to any problem. Incident communication always changes in the wake of an accident. People fear reporting incidents due to the fact that procedures and practices alter irrevocably afterwards. This encourages reluctance. We must spend time with our teams in order to see what they go through, and to truly understand the frustrations they encounter daily. It is not enough to simply ask for feedback. We must investigate in a comprehensive way. Far too often, we only examine the aftermath of a negative issue. We should also investigate the reasons why things go well. As a business, we will benefit immeasurably by learning about positives, and sharing the insights across the organisation.
BEST MOMENTS
‘As a leadership team we thought “How do we Safety Difference the sh*t out of this?”'
‘Instead of people being the problem, people should be the solution’
‘People have some amazing ideas'
‘You need to take on board that your business isn’t perfect'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Josh Bryant LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshbryant1/?originalSubdomain=au
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Consistency breeds trust - that’s the message from Colin this week, as he talks you through why consistency is a value we should all embrace, and how it can help to instil trust in an industry where it’s needed most.
KEY TAKEAWAYS The people in our organisations will develop a greater sense of trust and faith with leaders if they feel as though they matter. Spending time with them consistently will help to engender this. We must consider how well we stand up to our own messaging. Are we standing up for the values and beliefs that we aim to instil in our organisations?
BEST MOMENTS
‘He spent much more time listening then he did talking’
‘My challenge to you is to really up your game in the amount of time you spend going out there, talking to the people that matter’
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast has joined the community of shows featured on the new Safety FM broadcasting collective.
This week, Colin talks to performance consultant, speaker, safety evangelist, and founder of Safety FM, Jay Allen, about the ambitions for this innovative safety broadcaster, as well as his journey in safety so far, and how he sees the safety sector of today.
KEY TAKEAWAYS There is no one-size-fits all when it comes to safety. We become richer professionals by listening to a multitude of different ideas and viewpoints. The format that works best is an organic conversation. Biographies are all very well, but are ultimately redundant. And the product must never get in the way of any conversation. The role of a safety professional is about so much more than simply implementing measures and restrictions. It is about enabling people to be the best that they can be. Many safety professionals are promoted into their positions, and yet they feel that they can walk into an area and tell a veteran how to operate in safety. These professionals need to learn from the people with experience.
BEST MOMENTS
‘I didn’t hear a lot of podcasts that sounded like radio’
‘I can bring you the gospel, but you have to interpret it yourself’
’The end goal is to make sure that people make it home safe’
‘You’re responsible for the ideas and how to get them moving'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Safety FM - https://safetyfm.com
Jay Allen LInkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/drjayallen/
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The Interesting Health And Safety Podcast has become a part of the Safety FM Network, and Colin couldn’t be more delighted to tell you all about how this incredible event has happened, and what the station’s purpose is.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Safety FM is a collective of specially curated shows, all based around Safety, that acts as a one stop station for those in the know, and those who want to know more! The goal of such a valuable resource is to help spread the safety message, globally. This relies on each contributor putting out the best possible content - 24/7! Being a contributor to Safety FM also allows each host to continually develop and learn in order to become even better.
BEST MOMENTS
’We’re striving to get some of the greatest speakers and guests that we can find'
‘We’re looking to get the safety message out!’
‘I’m a better individual, because of the people I’ve spoken with'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Safety FM - https://safetyfm.com
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
How can we please our customers more?
That’s the question being asked today by Colin, as he examines the ways in which we can not just surpass the expectations of those in the industry, but disrupt the way things are done, and it starts with improving ourselves.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Satisfying the needs of our customers is not just a goal, but a requirement, but it requires us as professionals to be adaptable. Success is all very well, but we must never lose sight of the fact that we are first and foremost trying to stop people being hurt. It’s a simple, yet crucial mission. Improving our physical health leads to an improvement in mental wellbeing. By doing this, we improve our creativity, our imagination, and our ability to surpass expectations.
BEST MOMENTS
‘He encourages his people to manage on the edge of chaos’
‘Efficiency can limit flexibility’
‘Gain as much information as you can and flood yourself with it'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, Colin talks to safety consultant, Mark Stallard, the founder and operator of Safety Horizon, one of the leading providers of health and safety training, supporting businesses across the South-West of England.
Colin and Mark discuss the importance of “selling” health and safety instead of policing the concept, moving back into normality after the effects of the pandemic and what that means for safety in general, and how to be the most effective leader you can be.
KEY TAKEAWAYS We can engage people to do more in safety is we “sell” instead of “police”. If we sell the benefits, then people will actively try to adhere, going above and beyond to be the best. As we move back into normality, it’s useful to examine each of our processes, and drop the ones that make no sense. There areopportunities for efficiency everywhere. We must seek them out. The people at the sharp end of the business are acutely aware of all of the safety risks, and how they can be improved. A good leader will consult and investigate with them effectively, instead of leading blindly. Checks and balances can help when it comes to metrics and measurement, but these processes must also be refined in order to reach the essence of what really matters. There can be far too much extraneous material when it comes to measures.
BEST MOMENTS
‘It’s all about decision-making and how you can influence people’
‘We’ll adapt, we’ll modify, because that’s what we do. We’re professionals and we’re leaders in our field’
‘Coaching and mentoring is going to be important, moving forward, as we evolve’
‘Let’s focus on the key stuff. It’s getting that dialogue. The more people that talk about it, the more chance of getting some improvement'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Safety Horizon - https://www.safetyhorizonsw.com
Mark Stallard LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/markrstallard/?originalSubdomain=uk
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Improving and developing is a continual, ongoing process. No one ever starts at perfection. In this week’s show, Colin talks about the importance of perception when it comes to not just our goals, but our starting points.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Performance and improvement are exactly that - they are about continually striving to become better. Everything is relative. What happened yesterday isn’t always important. The best way to realign and develop is to mark where you are today, and move forwards. Don’t strive for perfection. Strive instead for incremental, ongoing improvements. You will fail if you believe that you have to be perfect every day.
BEST MOMENTS
‘We often judge ourselves on where we’d like to be, rather than where we are’
‘Today is your new starting point’
‘If you can strive for that, then you’ll be going a long way towards the results you want to achieve’
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This time, Colin talks to Graham Wailes, one of the foremost proponents of safety in the workplace, and a man whose rich and varied career has seen him assigned to many roles and many responsibilities.
Graham talks about his career, the highlights of his time in the field, the many lessons learned, and how he envisions safety going forward.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Safety figures can often be driven by “scorecard pressure” instead of real positive forms of impact. We must see past box-ticking exercises and look for opportunities for real change. Going from impossible to possible is a state of mind. Apply positive thinking, surround yourself with empowering influences, focus on your goal, and anything is achievable. Whatever KPIs we ask people to adopt, it must be underpinned by a desire to change, in positive terms, the way that business is done. As leaders, we must seek to change the very perception of safety. We can achieve this if we spend time in the environment in which we ask our workers to operate. We can only manage the things we monitor.
BEST MOMENTS
‘It’s all quantity-driven, with no qualitative element to it'
’People needed to take a tiny step from it being impossible to possible'
’The people who do the hazardous activities aren’t encouraged to think much about it at all’
’What gets monitored gets managed'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Graham Wailes LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/graham-wailes-b0897b41/?originalSubdomain=uk
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Taking inspiration from the philosophy of Bruce Lee, Colin reflects upon the importance of forgiveness, especially when it comes to honest mistakes.
KEY TAKEAWAYS If someone in our business makes an honest mistake, how do we deal with it? We must ask ourselves how our response affects their outlook. By instilling a culture of openness and honesty, we create a work environment where people will be far more open about telling you how things really work.
BEST MOMENTS
‘Mistakes are always forgivable if one has the courage to admit them’
‘Reflect about how you react when mistakes are made'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
After making some personal changes in his own life, Colin reflects upon not just the importance of discipline and routine in our lives, but the revitalising, empowering effects it can provide in both business and life.
KEY TAKEAWAYS By installing new routines in our lives, it gives the purpose behind these disciplines added meaning. Setting small, achievable, incremental goals in life can provide us with quick-fix rewards that only add to our sense of wellbeing and achievement. Goal-setting and routines can impact our business life in equally beneficial ways. By structuring our days around goals and routine, we drastically raise our productivity levels.
BEST MOMENTS
‘Discipline and routine has reignited my interest in getting fit and healthy’
‘I want to become the best version of me that I can be'
‘Getting discipline, getting routine - for me it’s fundamental'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, Colin talks to marathon swimmer and public speaker, Ed Williams, a man who constantly rises to extreme physical challenges in order to achieve incredible feats.
Ed and Colin discuss the mindset needed in order to achieve such accomplishments, how mental preparation is equally as important as physical, and how these valuable lessons can be applied to all areas of life and business.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Mental resilience is key when engaging in extreme sports such as marathon swimming. Circumstances beyond our control are routine, and arise at random. The great ones learn to come back if they fail. Stepping out side of our comfort zones, and putting ourselves into the path of new possibilities, opens up a whole new world of challenges and opportunities. The creativity and resources in our minds are the best source of guidance when it comes to traversing issues and barriers in business and life. There are always risks, both physical and mental, in everything we do. Extreme sports contain more risks than other pursuits. But these risks can always be mitigated by careful preparation.
BEST MOMENTS
‘You can’t control all circumstances’
‘Making sure you’re in a good headspace is very important’
‘When the unexpected happens, it’s exactly the same as swimming the channel’
‘It’s described as the Mount Everest of the swimming world'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
www.eliteswimmingacademy.co.uk
Ed Williams - https://www.edwardwilliams.org.uk
Ed Wiliams LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/edward-williams-72096427/?originalSubdomain=uk
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
We all like the empowerment that comes from receiving positive feedback, but we can often lose sight of the fact that we are sometimes in the position to provide this feeling in return. In this week’s show, Colin discusses why we should always look for opportunities to give praise.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Positive feedback is very inspiring, and can spur us on to do better. But we must seek to return this feedback where possible, as it can have the same effect on others. By ensuring that we return the feedback back into the business, we create a much more positive environment, and improve our business on a fundamental level.
BEST MOMENTS
‘You’re a little bit like the Parkinson of the health and safety world…'
‘If you can start to spend more time positively with people in the business, you’re going to be in a much better place as a business’
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Andy White, a Lecturer of Health & Safety at Victoria University in New Zealand, joins Colin on the show today to discuss the importance of diversity in approach, why the subject of health and safety is far more exciting than people realise, and how to make sure we're learning instead of blaming.
KEY TAKEAWAYS There are differing opinions about how safety should be approached in the sector, right now. The most important thing is that the conversations are being held. Working in the health and safety sector means that you can become part of every discipline in an organisation. For that reason, it is a far more diverse and fascinating pursuit than many realise. It’s easy to drop into the blame culture, and look past the lessons and learnings in favour of apportioning blame. We do well to pause and reflect on each situation as it occurs. Procedures and method statements are far better devised when created “on the ground” with the teams who will be working with them. They can instantly communicate any restrictions that may hamper their ability to work, or add insights where needed.
BEST MOMENTS
‘It only takes someone to start thinking differently for people to start engaging with it’
‘What everyone is striving for right now is to be acknowledged’
’There’s great opportunities for research, there’s great opportunities for innovation’
‘Learning, rather than blaming, is so fundamental'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Andy White LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/andy-white-11203023/?originalSubdomain=nz
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In this week’s episode, Colin talks about the special ways in which we can creatively engage with our workforce, and boost our productivity and safety.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Social media groups are a great way to create engagement, so long as we use it for positive means, and encourage creative input. Safety must be recognised as a priority at all times, but with such powerful technology in everyone’s hands already, the use of it to better engage our staff should be encouraged.
BEST MOMENTS
‘I thought it was a simple, straightforward, cost-effective way of using technology to engage better’
‘If people have got the technology with them, then why not use it in a positive way?’
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
John Green, who has worked closely with the likes of Sidney Dekker on bringing the Safety Differently approach into prominence, and is currently working with SNC-Lavalin as their Global Vice President in HSE.
John joins Colin today to discuss the importance of empathy when making change, why we must listen to previously unheard voices while doing so, and why trust may be the component that can make all the difference.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Most organisations, particularly those in construction, are rather more traditional in their views on health and safety. But this has led to a dissatisfaction in the sector, as the direction seems to be missing. We need to employ empathy when hoping to effect change when it comes to safety. Many companies have spent years developing and nurturing their own forms of safety. To disregard these careful measures only creates hostility from the get go. We first must ensure that the vision and values we seek to grow are present in our organisations. If we couple this purpose with trust in our workforce, then we engender natural interest in safety. It’s so easy to become complacent, but we must actively seek to challenge the status quo. Safety should not be a box-ticking exercise. We must seek out the complacent and challenge it to be better.
BEST MOMENTS
‘Many think that safety is stale’
‘You need to be empathetic and careful about how you go about changing organisations’
’If you’ve got trust in your organisation you can deal with these things as the potential grows’
‘Embrace the red - challenge the green'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Over the past few months, businesses have worked tirelessly to make the environments safer for everyone. There may even be new controls and procedures in place. In this week’s show, Colin talks about how we can use questions to ensure that the workplace remains a safe and secure place for everyone.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Are the distancing measures that we have implemented, still being adhered to? Are the touch-points and sanitation devices still being maintained and cleaned? We cannot afford to be complacent. Masks aren’t a new concept in the workplace. They have been providing respiratory protection for years. But now that masks are more prevalent, are we ensuring their use in other areas of the workplace? We owe it to each other to keep our environments safe, clean, and acceptable for others, if not ourselves. We have a responsibility to society, to do all we can do stop the virus if we can.
BEST MOMENTS
‘Okay, you’ve put new controls in place, but how are they working? How effective are they?’
‘People need to maintain the discipline that you’re looking for'
’That must be the cleanest keyboard you’ve ever had!'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, Colin talks to Kevin Furniss, the head of Corporate Safety for Maersk shipping, and what it’s like to head up safety for such a large, global concern.
Kevin talks frankly about the need to be adaptable to the ever changing needs of the business, the importance of looking at health and safety from the customer’s perspective, and why personal investigation matters so much.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Safety for a concern like Maersk happens at the ground level and extends upwards. Kevin’s remit is to design a team that works on developing the theory of safety, the rationale, and turn it into something that the brand of Maersk itself can turn into living practice. Safety began as the pursuit of keeping workforces safe, but along the way it became something of a bureaucratic automaton, keeping all but professionals on the periphery. It is now upon the industry to make it more all-encompassing. We gain credibility with our teams by not delegating entirely, but by joining the fight at the heart of the business, and investigating the work and environment for ourselves. One of the toughest challenges at the higher end of safety, is that we are forced to become a part of the executive teams, which requires us to leave behind some of the skills and talents that launched our career in the first place. We must always ensure that our reasoning comes from a place of wanting to help others, not simply ticking boxes in order to meet quotas.
BEST MOMENTS
‘I’m trying to make the world of work a healthier and safer place to be’
‘Why don’t we put people back at the centre’
‘You have to have “kahunas”. You have to have courage in order to go out there and do that with people’
’Skill-sets coupled with adequate knowledge give you a better result’
‘We’re here to serve everyone else, not serve our own egotistical fantasies'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Kevin Furniss LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinfurniss/?originalSubdomain=dk
Kevin Furniss for IOSH MAgazine - https://www.ioshmagazine.com/kevin-furniss-apm-terminals
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Through recent conversations, Colin has been inspired to think about the art of questions in safety, and why we ought to consider doing our best to make each question better!
KEY TAKEAWAYS We should consider removing all negative connotations from each question, stripping it of the blame factor, and making it a more investigative query. When we begin to look at events and incidents, better questions will yield better answers, which is always the point of investigation. Each question needs to be approached without hindsight bias, and with no agenda. Only then can we arrive at the truth.
BEST MOMENTS
‘It’s great to think about things in a slightly different way’
‘It’s so easy to make some poor calls’
’Start asking smarter questions'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dr David Provan is the co-founder of the Safety At Work podcast, as well as the director of Forge Works, who provide support to businesses around the globe, focusing specifically upon interaction between people in the workplace, adhering to the maxim that people are the solution and not the problem.
In this week’s show, Dr Provan talks about the importance of open communication, and why we must always ensure that we value the work itself as much as the workplace.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Judgment helps no one. We are at the point in our journey as a result of how far we’ve travelled so far, not despite of it. We should seek to elevate others without reservation. Safety professionals always seem to approach their view of the workplace through safety itself. We need to consider the job that people are trying to do. We need to make sure that the job does not become obscured. Open communication must be the main thing that companies improve. If we remove barriers in this way, then the flow of information increases dramatically, and our workplaces become exponentially safer. Metrics that measure implementation of safety measures are ultimately of little value. Operational information and insight are the real markers of where our attention should be focused.
BEST MOMENTS
‘We meet companies where they’re at and help them to take the next step forward’
‘Our business is to be the sort of people that we always wished we could talk to when we were on the other side of the table’
‘Our starting point as safety professionals needs to be to understand the work’
’Necessity becomes the mother of all innovation'
‘It’s inspiring to think that you can go and help organisations to make that difference'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Dr David Provan LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-provan-forgeworks/?originalSubdomain=au
The Safety Of Work Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-safety-of-work/id1487405500
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In the aftermath of an accident, we are often left with a potential explosive situation that can spiral into blame and accusation if we are not careful.
In this week’s show, Colin discusses the importance of empathy, understanding, and of using the right language in these sensitive situations.
KEY TAKEAWAYS In the wake of any incident, our first thought must always be with the first victim, and potentially their family. Who are they, and what are their needs? The second victim is the one who may not be considered as such, but for whom the trauma may be all too real; the perpetrator who did not set out to be the cause of misery. The real work comes from involving participants in the actual process of investigation, instead of simply allowing them to share the outcomes.
BEST MOMENTS
‘I’d like you to think about the person who’s suffered the loss’
‘Everybody in life is different. There’s no one-size-fits-all’
’The event has happened, and now we must be there to support them'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, Colin talks once more to Christian Harris, the founder of Slip Safety Services, experts in slip testing and anti-slip treatments,, about the ingenious ways in which he has pivoted his business model in the wake of the COVID outbreak, and the challenges and victories he has experienced along the way.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Part of the reason for the successful transition between business models has been not in finding new ways to work, but communicating the other, more appropriate services that are already in place. The most effective way of ensuring our workplace is COVID resistant, is to first achieve a high level of cleanliness, and then work to maintain it at all times. Cleanliness now must be rooted not in aesthetics, but in scientific certification. It is not enough for an environment to merely look clean. Cleanliness needs to be measured using a “3D” approach:
How does it look/feel/smell? Are the hygiene levels suitable? Think carefully about slip resistance. Danger can be invisible.
BEST MOMENTS
‘It’s about knowing you’re doing the right thing and looking yourself in the mirror'
‘You can’t go back to business as usual when it comes to cleaning’
’The definition of what’s reasonable when it comes to hygiene - I think the bar has been raised’
‘We need to be careful about our words when it comes to this'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Slip Safety - https://slipsafety.co.uk
Decontamination Cleaning - www.decontaminationcleaning.co.uk
Christian Harris LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/christian-harris-slip-safety/?originalSubdomain=uk
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
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Colin reflects upon the last six months, and upon the success of the podcast itself, which has seen him meet and discuss safety measures in a multitude of ways, and which has brought together such a varied number of perspectives and such a valuable and insightful bank of knowledge to the world.
KEY TAKEAWAYS We should never chastise someone just for trying to find a solution. Asking questions and finding answers is the way in which we can make sure that health and safety remain relevant. Blame is seen as a solution, and this is unfortunate. Blame doesn’t make the problem go away,. Discovering the root cause can ensure we don’t fall into the same trap twice. Learning from accidents and nurturing a better culture, ensures our safety, and that the workplace is far more pleasant.
BEST MOMENTS
‘I see this is a real honour, to be able to spend time talking to some of the most amazing people around the world’
’There’s a real benefit to thinking about new approaches’
‘Don’t be afraid to wrap up health and safety differently. Inside is the chocolate'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In this episode, Colin talks about system overviews and health checks, and how by focusing on both, we can increase the efficiency and safety of our workplace through investigation, and the three crucial ways in which you can make checks more powerful.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Health checks are more effective when you get out there into the company and get a real on-the-ground feel for how things are being run. This should be done in small increments, and performed more frequently. A system overview is an investigation into procedures and systems, to see if they really do have a place in your business. You can make your business far more expedient by removing unnecessary systems. We must involve our workers when performing either of these checks. By gaining a fresh perspective, you gain new solutions.
BEST MOMENTS
‘You could be implementing a really bad system really well, and that’s no good to anybody’
‘Often they’re not done very well. Often they’re not done at all…'
‘What is the point in reviewing systems and procedures if you’re not involving the people who are doing the job?’
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In a two part conversation, Colin talks to flight safety expert, Adam Johns, who with over a decade of experience in commercial aviation industry, has marked himself out as one of the world’s foremost specialists in people safety.
In this second instalment, Colin and Adam discuss a more collective approach to problem solving, and why the aviation industry may be in need of a complete reboot when it comes to safety regulations.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Aviation is an industry classed as high risk, and therefore it comes with a more restrictive and severe set of regulations when it comes to safety. Accidents were more proliferate to begin with, so this is not surprising. Policy can longer be built around aviation, based upon the concerns and failings of the past hundred years of its history. It has now reached a point where it is a uniformly safe industry, and requires new thinking. Safety failings in aviation are made more dramatic by the way they are presented in the media. It has forced the industry’s safety to grow faster than any other. We learn how to prevent, and how to consider the needs of people, not just by focusing on what went wrong, but what goes right.
BEST MOMENTS
‘Regulations on the safety side were developed as a result of accidents'
‘Imagery and metaphor is incredibly powerful’
‘We’ve had to grow up fast’
’There is an opportunity here to take stock of safety in our business’
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Adam Johns LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamjohns730/
Adam Johns at Safety Differently - https://safetydifferently.com/contributors/
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In a two part conversation, Colin talks to flight safety expert, Adam Johns, who with over a decade of experience in commercial aviation industry, has marked himself out as one of the world’s foremost specialists in people safety.
In this first part, Adam talks about the effects of lockdown upon the aviation industry, how to ensure that skills are not eroded over time, and how appearing as a safety coach my prove far more effective to your workforce.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Lockdown has seen some airlines reduced to around 10% of their normal operations. It will take perhaps 3 to 4 years for the industry to fully recover. To prevent skill-erosion, it’s important that airlines endeavour to keep training their staff. Simulators are still used today, and are still effective. There is a large disconnect between the way we think things are being done, and the way they are actually being done. We need to give people credit, but also try to measure more effectively. By acting more in a coach/facilitator capacity, we grant autonomy and encourage others to improve safety and quality.
BEST MOMENTS
‘It’s aerospace engineering for people who didn’t want to do so much maths!’
‘Making sure that planes stay in the sky, but making sure that the people who work on them are safe as well’
’There might have to be a bit of a revolution in how pilot training takes place’
‘Our job is to bring new ideas into organisations'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Adam Johns LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamjohns730/
Adam Johns at Safety Differently - https://safetydifferently.com/contributors/
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, Colin talks briefly about some of the things you should be considering as you return to work after the COVID lockdown, from people and commuting, to safety measures and remote working.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Working from home may well be a far more viable option for your business, going forward. Consider carefully, whether allowing your staff to work remotely is something you can permit from now on. Safety measures at work are necessary, but it’s also incumbent upon us all to show respect and care for those we work alongside. If we feel unwell, raise this concern and make sure you’re not putting others at risk. Consider the safety measure you’re putting into place. Remember that some measures may make others feel more at risk, so consider wholesale changes when it comes to guidelines.
BEST MOMENTS
’There’s a lot more trust now amongst the workforce’
‘It’s about people having their own personal commitment to the people they’re working with’
’This is a fantastic opportunity for people to have a but more pride in their workplace'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jeannette Linfoot is one of the UK’s most experienced and trusted mentors, property investors and consultants. With a business journey that’s taken her to the top of the corporate world, and now into independent ventures, there are few who know more about the ins and outs of business life.
Jeannette has joined Colin today for a candid discussion about the importance of health and safety in all business sectors, the impact of COVID-19 upon the travel industry, and the empowering ways in which we can increase diversity in the workplace.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Health and safety is a particularly core aspect of the travel industry. The burden of care is often upon those responsible for organising holidays, and even the tiniest elements of travel and accommodation must be accounted for. Trust, openness and honesty, are key to making sure our customers feel secure and comfortable. But it’s equally as important to nurture those values for our workforce. Coronavirus has demonstrated to the world that health and safety is of crucial importance to all aspects of our lives. Never has safety in the workplace been under more scrutiny. Increasing diversity of any kind is an incremental process, and must be steadfastly maintained, built upon the core value of ensuring that diverse role models are visible and respected.
BEST MOMENTS
‘I’m fascinated by how you can bring the corporate aspect to the entrepreneurial world’
‘If you’re buying a business then you need to know what’s in it. You need to get under the bonnet’
‘Good health and safety is about communication and interaction’
‘It’s about making diversity and inclusion a real strategic priority'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Jeannette Linfoot Associates - https://www.jeannettelinfootassociates.com
Jeannette Linfoot LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeannettelinfoot/?originalSubdomain=uk
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Conversations about health and safety are all very well, but it’s also crucial that we focus upon the very language we use. Even the most minor of inflections and choices of vocabulary can turn words into something far more powerful.
With this in mind, Colin today talks about why we should always endeavour to make conversations around safety as empowering and positive as possible.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Designations and descriptions are unfortunately often loaded with negative connotation. We must seek to alter perceptions where we can by changing the lexicon itself. We should be "enabling and learning", instead of "investigating and blaming”. We are, after all, always trying to make things better. Positive affirmations instead of negative overtones will help you to change the face of your business, and also the face of health and safety.
BEST MOMENTS
‘I want you start thinking differently about some of the basic words that you’re using’
’They’re really going to open up if you’re using that kind of terminology’
’These are opportunities to make the workplace better'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Pete Rushmer is the founder of Flagship, a specialist training and consulting business with a particular focus on external transport management and compliance. He is also the host of the A Half Dozen Things Podcast, focusing on frank business conversations.
In this week’s show, Pete joins Colin to talk about his outlook on safety, the value of teams, and the meaning behind his Half A Dozen Things mantra!
KEY TAKEAWAYS There is a school of thought that says if we focus on the half dozen things we can do well, and always do our best at them, then it can bring about wealth and happiness. We can only achieve true greatness in business if we take the ideas and goals we formulate, and allow others to help us realise them. Zero target safety is not a measure that Pete is keen for anyone to implement, as it negatively influences the culture of a company, who may begin to hide accidents or concerns rather than report them. The most important part of any effective first aid training course is not the materials used to teach, but the ability to carry out practical activities when the training is required.
BEST MOMENTS
‘I’ve spent a long time trying to see how I can excel’
‘If you want to be really successful, you’ve got to get the right people to help you shape the future’
‘We do want to know what’s going on, because then we can put the processes in place to manage them’
‘As a training company we are presented with challenges'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Pete Rushmer Twitter - https://twitter.com/peteflagship
Pete Rushmer LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterrushmer/?originalSubdomain=uk
A Half Dozen Things Podcast - https://ahalfdozenthings.podbean.com
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The lockdown has provided much disruption, but also a wonderful opportunity for reflection. In this week’s show, Colin discusses the importance of structure and routine, and how forward planning can be beneficial in bringing back balance to our lives.
KEY TAKEAWAYS The lockdown has thrown many routines into chaos, but with the end in sight, structure in our personal and working lives may help to guide us back to sense of normality. Structure in our lives, and concentrated bursts of focussed work, can make us more efficient, and far more effective. Structure also allows us to realise what is, and what isn’t important in our lives. It provides clarity about the importance of time well spent, and who we spend it with.
BEST MOMENTS
‘We need to think about a better way of moving forward’
‘I’ve had to get some real structure to my diary’
‘We work so that we can spend more quality time with the people we care about'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In the second of a two-part conversation, Colin talks to Simon Bown, formerly in charge of health and safety at Luton airport, and now overseeing safety at Keolis Amey Docklands light railway. It’s an insightful, thought-provoking conversation that’ll inspire and empower all health and safety practitioners.
In part two, Simon and Colin discuss the metrics that Simon uses in order to measure success, why aiming for “Zero” in some cases is desirable, and the ideal future of health and safety in the workplace.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Target Zero and Zero Harm systems are slightly unrealistic, but the zero approach should be pursued in terms of loss-of-life or serious maiming of the workforce. In these cases, zero is, of course, the aim. One of the most troubling aspects that Simon has noticed, is that in terms of mental health, workers sometimes feel unsupported. Changing this perception is a case of altering a company’s culture. Traditional safety practices have led us successfully to this point in time. It now takes creative thinking to help move safety on even further. The aim for the future should be to make specific safety measures almost invisible, in that they become the intrinsic way of working, and do not requires an extra level of jurisdiction or supervision.
BEST MOMENTS
’No business should kill or seriously maim someone’
‘If you made an honest mistake, do you feel like the business would support you?’
‘It’s about leaders, leadership, and how people are leading organisations’
‘What are the craziest things you need to do in order to be successful?'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Simon Bown LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-bown-a6225a36/?originalSubdomain=uk
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In the first of a two-part conversation, Colin talks to Simon Bown, formerly in charge of health and safety at Luton airport, and now overseeing safety at Keolis Amey Docklands light railway. It’s an insightful, thought-provoking conversation that’ll inspire and empower all health and safety practitioners.
In part one, Simon discusses the principles of good health and safety in business and the importance of disruptive thinking in the health and safety sector.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Over the past few years, many influential thought leaders have sought to disrupt the traditional way of thinking, and dare to be different in terms of approach. There’s no one-size-fits-all solution for health and safety. Solutions that work in one environment will not necessarily work in another. It takes creative thinking and passionate people. By broadening the conversation around safety, we achieve a far greater understanding of what good safety looks like, not just in each sector, but as an expansive discipline. A good business is one that has the ability to hear bad news, and who takes responsibility for making changes without according blame or dwelling on the negatives.
BEST MOMENTS
‘I never say never now’
‘You have to be curious, because you explore and learn different things’
‘You can’t off-the-shelf this stuff’
‘Everyone perceives risk differently'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Simon Bown LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-bown-a6225a36/?originalSubdomain=uk
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
It’s impossible not to consider the impact and effects of COVID upon our society. But we should also take time to reflect upon the positive ways in which this downtime has given us the opportunity to pause and observe.
This week, Colin reflects upon the ways in which the experience has affected him and his business personally.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Working remotely has become the norm, but it’s also allowed many businesses to streamline operations and channel their efficiency. Remote operations will never completely take the place of face-to-face business, but it has demonstrated that a blend of remote work and on-site work, can be just as effective as operations pre-COVID. If we can make sure that consistency and frequency are key foundations of our business, then we’ll be successful going forward.
BEST MOMENTS
’This has given people the opportunity to sit back and reflect’
’Work with more frequency and you’ll find that you’ll soon be making some big differences'
‘We’re now getting a blended approach to how we work'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Colin talks about the three reasons why you should always focus upon what you gain from a health and safety perspective, instead of what you lose.
Far too often in business, the focus lies on the wrong areas of implementation, and in this week’s show, Colin explains why.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Target zero and similar systems drive people to silence. Why would we encourage an element of business that prevents people from speaking out? When you introduce blame into your culture, and into the way you rectify an issue, it forces people to be even quieter. Get out there into the workplace immediately and see how the work is being done. You’re sure to be surprised, either positively or negatively, by the reality of your own workplace.
BEST MOMENTS
‘Good health and safety performance isn’t in the lack of accidents. It’s the presence of control’
’The measure that you use in order to get that result, doesn’t have to be the obvious one’
’The minute you start blaming is the minute you stop learning’
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In this week’s show, Colin talks to Environmental Health Officer, Phil Clarke of Nuffield Health, a firm proponent of a more holistic approach to safety, and whose responsibilities see him daily overseeing the wellbeing of gyms, hospitals, and almost 15,000 workers across around 400 sites nationwide.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Health and safety is too often categorised as simple risk assessment, when the reality is much broader and all-encompassing, stretching from ground-level concerns, all the way through to the core drivers and motivations of a workforce. By surrounding yourself with the best team you can find, you increase the potential of your effectiveness. Empowering others grows your capabilities. Quarantine has demonstrated the effectiveness of remote meetings, and allowed businesses to see that much time can be saved by employing technologies in order to increase communication capabilities. Development of our people, and health and wellbeing in general, should be planned well ahead, with firm goals set in attainable increments But we must also attempt to visualise the long-term future of what we hope to achieve.
BEST MOMENTS
‘If you empower people, they’ll be able to make your decisions locally’
‘We need to get key people involved in understanding health and safety’
‘You need to have short term strategy, but you need the long game goals, too’
‘It’s not a them-and-us situation. We’re all in this together'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Nuffield Health - https://www.nuffieldhealth.com
Phil Clarke LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/phillipjclarke/?originalSubdomain=uk
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
There are a handful of areas in each business that require a constant learning process. This week, Colin offers a brief discourse upon the simple things we can all do to make sure our businesses are running to their full potential.
KEY TAKEAWAYS It’s all very well to take lessons from the negatives, but we should always endeavour to focus primarily upon the areas in which we are succeeding, and learning accordingly. Blame and lack of accountability from those in more senior roles, will only ever lead to a lack of motivation and inspiration among your workforce. It’s in our interest to ensure to constantly ask how we can enact positive change in our businesses. Every small incremental positive change helps.
BEST MOMENTS
‘I want you to talk to people and find out about how work is done well’
‘What better use of your time can there be, than going out and talking to people?’
‘You’re going to feel great because you’ve made a difference'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Has Health & Safety become a nerdy subject? When is it okay to truly “nerd out” about such an important subject?
Well perhaps that day has come, as Colin meets Sam Goodman, otherwise known as “The HOP Nerd”, a specialist in Human & Organisational Performance, who joins the show to discuss the most important part of any business: people!
KEY TAKEAWAYS There is a thriving community of health and safety advocates in the world right now. People seem more than willing to put aside egos in favour of spreading the message. One of the main challenges for anyone in a senior position who wishes to implement change, is that they must allow themselves to be vulnerable. This is a real issue for those who have been inherently taught that seniority equals infallibility. Our mission is to make the world a better place in which to work, but we need to also ensure that we, as frontline safety advocates, are safe in the first place. By engendering an atmosphere of honesty and open communication, we naturally encourage more voices to feel comfortable enough to speak out. This in turn leads to positive, overwhelming change from every area of a business. The formula for bridging the divide between the preconceptions that executives and workers have for each other, is to alter the image that each believes about the other.
BEST MOMENTS
‘It’s been transformational in terms of my thinking’
’Executives don’t realise how visible they are’
‘We need to create an environment where honesty is possible’
‘If honesty is possible, then learning is possible'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
The HOP Nerd - http://www.thehopnerd.com
Sam Goodman Twitter - https://twitter.com/thehopnerd1
Sam Goodman LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuel-goodman-03a95391/
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The Interesting Health And Safety Podcast celebrates a true milestone this week, with the release of its 100th episode. It’s been a fascinating and insightful journey over the course of the past year; one that has taught its host, Colin, many invaluable lessons, and one that has left in its wake one hundred pieces of empowering, perceptive content.
To mark the occasion, Colin is in a reflective mood, and is using this landmark show to thank the many people who have made the show a reality, from the team behind the show’s production and the numerous guests who’ve made the show what it is, to the most important component: you the listener.
KEY TAKEAWAYS The show would be nothing without its audience, who have supported and grown along with the show itself. They have taken magnetically to the astounding content provided by the show’s marvellous roster of guests. Focus is a skill that requires all-round thinking. It is the art of keeping your attention fixed not just upon the target ahead, but the world around you. Collaboration between health and safety advocates is crucial in order to spread the message and further the industry as a whole. One of the most empowering things we can do as health and safety professionals, is to ensure that those with something to say are able to have their voices heard.
BEST MOMENTS
‘It’s been really great to hear people who are so passionate about making this industry better’
‘Collaboration is really important’
‘I am THE work in progress!’
‘Let’s just call ourselves learners and enablers'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
The Progressive Property Podcast - https://www.progressiveproperty.co.uk/podcast/
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Colin talks to Max Merritt, who has not only recently founded a window cleaning company in Lincolnshire, but a podcast series documenting the entire process.
Max joins Colin today to talk about many topics, such as the nuts and bolts of building a business from scratch, the hazards of being a window cleaner, and how the lockdown has affected the startup process.
KEY TAKEAWAYS The best way to grow a business is to scale it to the point at which it becomes autonomous without the founder. It requires putting in place an effective team, and setting dynamic systems and processes in place. Health and safety isn’t just about a document. It’s about common sense. It’s about being proactive, and reacting dynamically and with awareness to your immediate environment. Once you have five or more people working for your company, the law states that you must become far more structured in terms of recording information and filing documentation. Implementing new systems and processes can be a disruptive experience. The best companies are the ones who understand this, and instead collaborate integrally with their workforce, consulting and communicating effectively to bring about positive change.
BEST MOMENTS
‘Health and safety and window cleaning: it’s absolutely massive!’
’Considering what’s going on around you is more important than ticking a box’
’The most successful businesses are the ones who do it collaboratively’
‘I’ve got to walk before I start to run'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Apprentice Window Cleaner - https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-apprentice-window-cleaner-max-merritt-wJ_B1VrZUCu/
Lincs Window Cleaning - https://lincswindowcleaning.co.uk
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In this episode of The Interesting Health and Safety Podcast, Colin reflects on the last 99 episodes in preparation for the big 100th episode milestone!
In this episode Colin discuss if we should ditch the term ‘Health and Safety’. Looking into how the word ‘safety’ has greater use and meaning than ‘health’ in the industry and distilling what our industry covers to understand how it may evolve in the future.
Is it time to start thinking about Health and Safety differently? And how can we move our industry forward in the future?
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In this week’s show, Colin chats to Anna Gaughey and Philippa Breckon of Penshaw View, a family-run company delivering high quality health and safety training and consultancy nationwide.
Anna has recently become the first person to become a safety, health and environmental apprentice. Along with Philippa, they discuss the ways in which this new qualification is shaking up the industry, tailoring better-suited skills to individual organisations, and thereby enhancing the effectiveness of H&S across the country.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Many of the qualifications out there are not tailored to each individual workplace. With the apprenticeship, skills and qualifications can be better tailored to each organisation, and the results are remarkable. The apprenticeship is very much project-based, and under constant review to ensure the knowledge is the latest available. By employing a one-to-one training method, each candidate can better prepare for the assessment. The apprenticeship has opened up new channels of communication, and has rapidly expanded Anna’s knowledge base, leading to a greater sense of confidence. We cannot achieve this element without practical, on-the-job experience. Many young people seem to be drawn to the health and safety sector. Seeing the next generation taking such an interest gives hope to the future of safety in the workplace.
BEST MOMENTS
’So far we’ve got a 100% success rate’
‘It’s allowed us, as a business, to grow, and to continue to grow’
‘It’s given me the foot in the door that I never would have got’
‘Health and safety is everyone’s responsibility'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
Penshaw View - https://penshawview.co.uk
Anna Gaughey LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/anna-gaughey-185267153/?originalSubdomain=uk
Philippa Breckon LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/philippa-breckon-0851b481/?originalSubdomain=uk
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In this episode of The Interesting Health and Safety Podcast, Colin gives shares with us a better definition of ‘Risk’. Colin asks us to consider the true meaning of ‘Hazard’ and ‘Risk’, a Hazard being something that can cause you harm. A ‘Risk’ is how CLOSE you are to the hazard. Calculating risk has been seen as a linear process for too long, risk needs to be seen as dynamic and ever changing. Risk assessment needs to be a constant evaluation through all stages of business.
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In this podcast, Colin has been reflecting on interviews and books by Sidney Dekker; more specifically his take on Incidents.
“ An incident is an investment that you’ve already made”
So if you’ve already made the investment, reclaim your asset and get the most out of what you’ve already done. To get the learning, it is not about ‘pointing the finger’ and finding blame; dismissing the individual who may be responsible is also dismissing any chances to learn the most from the incident after the fact.
It's important to think about what they were thinking and doing, how did we get to the situation and avoiding viewing with hindsight.
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In this episode of The Interesting Health and Safety Podcast, Colin talks about RULES! Through Colin’s experience with various businesses, he has come to learn that ‘golden rules’ mean NOTHING! Having too many rules, regulations and standards in place can lead to unnecessary complications and a ‘risk secrecy’ culture in the workplace. Creating a more simplistic environment for your workers can lead to a more open and honest work ethic. Simply communicating with your employees to create a shared understanding of the company’s ethos and guidelines can create clarity and increased safety throughout!
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Colin is joined by Clive Lloyd, a specialist in psychological safety and how to build and maintain trust in the workplace.
Clive has joined Colin to discuss the many ways in which companies can engender trust, and by doing so increase aversion to risk in their own workplaces.
KEY TAKEAWAYS There are no better predictors of workplace safety than trust and mistrust, and yet most companies do not embrace it, as they see it as too vague and indistinct. By opening our minds to new ideas and input from those around us, we awaken perceptions to which we may not otherwise have had access. When it comes to health and safety, we should rely less upon opinions and entirely upon data and fact. There can be no room for conjecture. If we have successfully implemented a culture by where people feel comfortable enough to raise concerns and speak out, then safety becomes a natural byproduct.
BEST MOMENTS
’Trust is still viewed as touchy-feely psychobabble stuff’
‘We’re all entitled to opinions, but what we’re not entitled to are our own facts’
‘I focus on doing work well, and doing work reliably’
’The effective use of questions is one of the most powerful tools we have'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
GYST Consulting - https://www.gystconsulting.com.au/clive-lloyd/
Clive Lloyd At GYST - https://www.gystconsulting.com.au/clive-lloyd/
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In this episode of the Interesting Health and Safety Podcast, Colin discusses the prospect of returning to work from lockdown. How to you manage and protect your workers to keep them safe as the country recovers. This is not just the physical aspects of safety such as equipment or distancing, but also the psychological aspects of safety. Most people will have been through an incredibly tough time during lockdown and may be anxious to return to work.
Your business may have transformed during lockdown, it’s important to look at the key tasks that require doing, bringing back the most essential people first. Having a gradual induction back into the business is key to getting the business back onto its feet.
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Colin is joined by Karl Simons, the Health, Safety, Security and Wellbeing Director for Thames Water, who was recently named as SHP’s Most Influential Person In Health & Safety 2019.
Karl and Colin discuss the importance of culture upon change, and the vital role that senior management play in determining the direction and message of health in the workplace.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Health and safety is a team effort. Through combined creativity, imagination and drive, we can embed a culture of compassion and care. The two reasons why people fail to challenge are lack of empowerment and fear of reprisals. Only by establishing a culture of openness and trust can we engender faith and care. Change can never truly be attained unless those in the higher echelons of business recognise its importance. It is not our job to judge a person based on the nature of their absence. It is our job to ensure and enable their return to work, and to see to it that they thrive. It’s not disability that prevents people from thriving in the workplace. It is the work environment itself. It is incumbent upon us to get the best out of everyone.
BEST MOMENTS
‘It reflects the energy and effort that people across the organisation have put in’
‘Behaviour is external. We can see it’
‘You’ve got to create that culture of safe environment’
’There are always steps we can take to make sure people have a fulfilling life at work'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health And Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/training-competency-creating-effective-plan-process/id1467771449?i=1000452692837
Karl Simons LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/karl-simons-35b58ab8/?originalSubdomain=uk
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In this episode of The Health and Safety Podcast, Colin has 3 things that he wants you to consider during lockdown! The Fridge – STOP SNACKING!! It’s so easy to be tempted into eating a bit more than you usually would! Find ways of controlling what you are eating and spend less time in the fridge.
The Drinks Cabinet – A cheeky glass every once in a while isn’t a bad thing! However day drinking is something that should be avoided during lockdown! Monitor how much you are dinking (it will save your belly and your wallet!)
Get Hot and Sweaty! – Not just in the bedroom ;) You can actually get hot and sweaty in any room in the house. Sit ups, squats, running, anything that gets the blood pumping is a great way to keep your body focused and happy!
Follow Colin’s golden rules to stay active, sane and sensible during lockdown!
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Todd Conklin is the host of one of the world’s most popular podcasts centred around Health & Safety - The Pre-Accident Investigation Podcast - and through his tireless efforts in promoting the cause, he has been called to speak and mentor around the globe.
Todd joins Colin to discuss the world of health and safety, how it’s changed now that COVID-19 has taken its toll, and what the sector will look like going forward.
KEY TAKEAWAYS The current crisis comes in three sections: disease, economic and psychological. It is highly likely that working life will change forever in its wake. Too many in the health and safety industry are tackling the challenges the wrong way round. We need to concentrate more on the higher echelons of business, which will cause a ripple effect downwards. Despite views to the contrary, workers at ground level are very good at keeping themselves safe, and are constantly trying to be safer. Rules shouldn’t be things we penalise people for breaking. Rules should be the jumping off point for studying practices that need improvement. In life in general, we do not consider the element of risk. We are driven by the absence of controls. In the workplace we are far too interested in what not to do, instead of how we can do things better.
BEST MOMENTS
‘Workers aren’t the problem. Workers are the solution’
‘We created efficiencies. We’re going back to workplace that’s going to be built on resilience’
’The most important tool we have is generosity’
’Nobody comes to work wanting to have an accident'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health And Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/training-competency-creating-effective-plan-process/id1467771449?i=1000452692837
Todd Conklin LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/todd-conklin-64b8a8a/
The Pre-Accident Investigation Podcast - https://preaccidentpodcast.podbean.com
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This time on the Interesting Health and Safety podcast, Colin tells us two things that we can do during lockdown to make the most of our time and to improve out health and safety business! The first is to look at the statutory things that you are required to do in your business (for example electrical systems, fire extinguishers) keeping on top of these elements and getting them tested is still paramount during these difficult times. Colin has some amazing tools to help you with this if you need help!
The second thing is to do a good review of all the tasks that are happening within your business and to make sure that you have all of the necessary risk assessment documents. Make sure that these documents make sense and are thorough enough! Doing this will allow you to be able to make really effective risk assessments for all future tasks within your business!
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In this episode of The Interesting Health and Safety Podcast, Colin explains the importance of finding opportunity out of adversity. During this corona virus pandemic, people are forced to live their lives differently. Some people still have to go to work and be exposed whilst others are locked down in their own homes. Colin reflects on how he has been making the most of lockdown and how he is done more work than usual without even leaving the house. Colin has even created new business practices through technology that he plans to keep implementing after the pandemic is over!
Colin encourages us to challenge the ways that we work to allow ourselves to free up more time for the important things in life. How can you take this opportunity to better yourself and create new habits that will improve your life during and after the pandemic.
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
James McPherson has been described as the “hip young gunslinger” of Health & Safety after launching his hugely successful Rebranding Safety podcast in December of 2018.
As a podcasting contemporary, Colin is in informal mode today with James, where they discuss the impact that podcasting itself is having on safety awareness, their shared love of sport and the message and purpose that connect them.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Podcasting is turning into a supremely effective way to connect with likeminded Health & Safety disruptors, and a great method of spreading awareness in a fascinating way. The skill behind being a truly great host is the ability to recognise the structure of a conversation ahead of time. It is the art of moving the conversation forward. Health & Safety is not a competition. No-one should feel that they cannot spread the word for fear of treading on someone’s toes. The more voices out there, the safer the world will be. The safety industry is unfortunately beset by a certain arrogance. There are those who feel as though they have learned all they need to know. But there is always more to know. Learning should be a continuous, evolving pursuit. Different voices provide different perspectives. The greater number of voices, the greater perspectives we will have.
BEST MOMENTS
‘If the person’s interesting, you’re never going to run out of things to ask’
‘If we’re genuinely passionate about what we do, then we should give it away for free’
‘If you’re doing a job that you genuinely love doing, then it’s not a job’
‘I’ve acknowledged that I have room to grow, too’
‘Health and safety is like chocolate biscuits'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health And Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/training-competency-creating-effective-plan-process/id1467771449?i=1000452692837
James McPherson Twitter - https://twitter.com/jamesmacpherso8?lang=en
James McPherson LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jmacpherson1/?originalSubdomain=uk
The Rebranding Safety Podcast - https://anchor.fm/rebrandingsafety
Rebranding Safety on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeSzxgNnZ8QE0bdZRIxf8eA
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In this episode of The Interesting Health and Safety Podcast, Colin talks about his experience in mentoring a brand new starter in the health and safety industry. Colin talks about the difficulties getting experience in the field of health and safety as a new starter and how YOU could build a plan to improve your experience and employability. This unprecedented time is a perfect excuse to get out the books and start learning about whatever you want to get into, Colin teachers us how we can improve ourselves and succeed in life.
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Colin is in conversation with James Thorne, the CEO of The Institute Of Quarrying (IOQ).
James has marked himself out in the industry as a man determined to push practices forward, and coupled with his dynamic thinking and methodologies. James joins the show today to talk through some of the innovative ways in which he hopes to lead The IOQ into tomorrow’s world.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Future-proofing plans for the IOQ revolves around ensuring that their members are supported through education, best practices, and implementation of new technologies to support this.
The outbreak has caused much of the world to be brought to a stand-still. But businesses are being urged to carry on where they can. If we do keep going, we must be aware of the mental strain this places us under.
It’s not just about having the technical competence to understand the issue. The ability to listen, to communicate and to act on what you’ve heard.
Fluid, coherent responses to team’s needs has led IOQ to harness new, accessible technologies, resulting in new and dynamic ways of relaying information and practices to its members. It’s a model that should act as a lesson to all institutes of learning.
Capability is an extension of competence. By adding skill-sets, efficiency and communication to an already competent body, we create capability.
BEST MOMENTS
‘We need to control the controllables’
‘Get the basics right, and the rest of it will look after itself’
‘If we don’t understand it, and we don’t measure it, then how can we make sure we’re dealing with it in the best way possible?’
‘It’s not just about competence. It’s about capability’
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health And Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/training-competency-creating-effective-plan-process/id1467771449?i=1000452692837
James Thorne LinkedIn
The Institute Of Quarrying
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In this special two-part conversation, Colin chats to sisters, Elaine Crewe and Sharon De Caesteker, the founders of Wellbeing4Life, who offer a range of holistic wellbeing services that encourage individuals and businesses to use creativity, courage and imagination in order to achieve happiness, health and joy.
In part two of their conversation, Sharon and Elaine discuss the challenges of working from home during this trying period, the psychological implications of suddenly finding ourselves with time on our hands, and the positive opportunities of quarantine.
KEY TAKEAWAYS For those working at home now, it can be quite a difficult transition. This is mainly due to the fact that when we’re in the workplace, the beginning and end of a working day are clearly visible. These lines are blurred when we work at home, and our personal lives are closely intertwined with out professional lives. Structure is an essential component of our days. Even for those who may not be able to work at the moment, it’s vital that we inject some kind of framework into our time, in order to give ourselves purpose. Some basic structural tips for your day should include:
Good food and dietary consideration Physical activity Space and time for mental rest Creative achievement This period of inactivity is a wonderful opportunity to engage with “Project You”; a means to developing yourself in all kinds of incredible ways, either physically or mentally. For Sharon and Elaine, the quarantine has given them the opportunity to put new systems into place, allowing them to hold bootcamps and classes online, which are having a transformative effect upon their clients remotely.
BEST MOMENTS
’The dogs have never had so many walks!’
‘I was only 1hr 20 minutes away from the world record…'
‘For that one hour, coronavirus doesn’t exist’
‘We can finish what we’ve started. But just avoid the things we’ve started in the drinks cupboard...'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health And Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/training-competency-creating-effective-plan-process/id1467771449?i=1000452692837
Wellbeing4Life - https://www.wellbeing-4-life.com/about-us/
Wellbeing4Life On Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Wellbeing4LifeUK/
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In this special two-part conversation, Colin chats to sisters, Elaine Crewe and Sharon De Caesteker, the founders of Wellbeing4Life, who offer a range of holistic wellbeing services that encourage individuals and businesses to use creativity, courage and imagination in order to achieve happiness, health and joy.
In part one of the conversation, Elaine and Sharon discuss their backgrounds and purpose, the incredible healing power of laughter, the impact of culture on the wellbeing of the workforce, and how to implement changes that can empower your workforce into becoming a happier, more productive team.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Laughter releases endorphins, which immediately promote a better physical and emotional feeling. Laughter Yoga is the practice of encouraging our bodies to release these endorphins through practised laughter techniques. Changing your mind-set can be achieved through simple, incremental steps, such as changing your diet, your routine, and your exercise regime. So many people are attuned to society’s route through life. We choose a profession, work each day and potentially progress along that career path. By altering our mind-set, we can see the possibilities outside of this path through life, and hopefully endeavour to choose a more fulfilling journey. A healthy, happy workplace is a productive workplace. By ensuring that we lead from the top and identify our workplace culture, we increase engagement, creativity and motivation. Enhancing our workplace culture must never be approached as a box-ticking exercise. There is no one-size-fits-all solution. It needs to be a fluid, bespoke, and ever-evolving process of learning and adapting. Simple things, such as making sure take a proper lunch break, can increase productivity by a staggering 41%. We need to dismantle the notion that “powering through” is some kind of badge of honour, as not taking care of yourself can actually be detrimental to the entire company. Openness and honesty, coupled with connection, are the best ways to deal with overwhelm. We need to make sure that confidence is a value that’s held across the business in order to make this conversation possible. Companies thrive when they allow their staff to step up to the challenge. Trusting our workforce to do the best job possible is infinitely more empowering than treating them as subordinates.
BEST MOMENTS
‘I didn’t recognise the signs’
‘It’s transformed the way that we live, and we love seeing that transformation in our clients’
‘Wellbeing is all about experimentation’
‘It’s absolutely crazy to be still living with these archaic ways!’
’We do adapt and we do respond'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health And Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/training-competency-creating-effective-plan-process/id1467771449?i=1000452692837
Wellbeing4Life - https://www.wellbeing-4-life.com/about-us/
Wellbeing4Life On Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Wellbeing4LifeUK/
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jonathan Dempsey is the director of Red Laces, a relatively new consultancy focussed on providing strategic delivery, inspections, audits and incident management. Jonathan is an MBA graduate and Fellow Of The International Institute Of Risk And Safety Management, known for his progressive approach to business.
In this second of a special two-part conversation, Jonathan talks about why health and safety needs to be rebranded, the dangers of blame, and the creative value in health and safety interpretation.
KEY TAKEAWAYS If we keep things at a document level, and fail to consider the people, you will create risk, create incidents, and by doing so, incur costs. There should never be blame in any organisation. Compliance and a fear of the regulator causes blame to appear. There’s a real perception out there, that Health and Safety is a boring subject. It’s up to the innovators in the industry to change that view. The route to effective health and safety isn’t always black and white. There is room for interpretation, so long as the frameworks are adhered to.
BEST MOMENTS
‘Target zero keeps that definition of safety very narrow’
‘It’s the “S” in Health & Safety’
‘It’s the adaptability and the agility that comes from these things’
‘It was all about that shift in perspective’
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health And Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/training-competency-creating-effective-plan-process/id1467771449?i=1000452692837
Red Laces - https://www.redlaces.co.uk/blank-page-1
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This time on The Interesting Health and Safety Podcast, Colin reports from a shopping centre in Woking whilst he waits to go on a site inspection. Colin discusses how the Corona virus is going to impact workplaces, giving some key advice on how you should look after yourself during this pandemic.
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health And Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/training-competency-creating-effective-plan-process/id1467771449?i=1000452692837
Red Laces - https://www.redlaces.co.uk/blank-page-1
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jonathan Dempsey is the director of Red Laces, a relatively new consultancy focussed on providing strategic delivery, inspections, audits and incident management. Jonathan is an MBA graduate and Fellow Of The International Institute Of Risk And Safety Management, known for his progressive approach to business.
In this first of a special two-part conversation, Jonathan discusses the need for disruptive thinking in risk, the operational opportunities in technology, and why the polar ends of all companies need to find more effective ways to communicate in order to minimise risk.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Red Laces are empowering businesses to improve profitability through more creative risk solutions, with a focus on people. The perceptions of any business can be in stark contrast from one end of the business to the other. For example, innovation may be a driver at the executive level, but on the ground level, it may almost be invisible. Risk and systems are often reduced to language. But risk is a people activity. Conditions change, and so do people. It needs to be an ever-evolving process that can easily adapt to fit the user and conditions. Brands often assume that their culture pervades all the way through the organisation, But these large firms are often built on acquisitions, and may contain cultures within cultures that still work to legacy standards. Social media and technology types are having a huge effect on the way we engage with our workforce. By embracing the creative opportunities in new platforms, we can better translate our values and core beliefs across organisations. If you’re aiming for compliance, then you’re aiming for “bronze”. However, if you’re aiming for ”silver” then you have a far better chance of exceeding expectations. Red Laces provide a comprehensive, holistic appraisal of the risk in all departments of a business, working alongside all departments, and also taking into account departments such as IT and cyber.
BEST MOMENTS
‘We’re helping to demystify risk, but take a more holistic approach to add more value’
‘What do we hear? What do we see? What do we feel?’
‘I’m not dancing yet!’
‘Unless we evolve and innovate, we’re going to be left behind’
‘Most businesses run on people as the energy’
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health And Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/training-competency-creating-effective-plan-process/id1467771449?i=1000452692837
Red Laces - https://www.redlaces.co.uk/blank-page-1
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Welcome back to The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast!
Today, whilst waiting for a meeting, Colin is thinking aloud about office safety. Colin wants to cover 2 areas; People who manage offices & People that work in offices.
Whilst it is generally accepted that office-environments are low-risk, it is still important to be aware of potential hazards and risks to you and your colleagues/staff. Primarily things like;
Fire safety - appropriate risk assessments and ensuring everybody knows the protocols in the event of a fire (safety points, fire exits, where extinguishers or blankets are located)
Electrical safety - Making sure fixed wiring is inspected and tested, but also everything has the appropriate level of testing and safety risk assessment (Portable appliance testing for example).
Simple Risk assessment - you may have unusual equipment or non-standard setups that require specific assessments when approaching the job and environment from a hazard perceptive view. This needs to be applied across the office, equipment and jobs& tasks involved. This doesn’t need to be confusing or long winded, but just a simple guide or set of instructions.
Manual Handling - Moving paper, desks, chairs, boxes and so on all involve manual handling. Many jobs in an office will include some modecum of manual handling so it is imperative all staff are trained in the basic procedures involved to avoid injury and risk.
Regular Activities - Colin gives the example of moving hot drinks from the kitchen to their desk; does this journey traverse stairs? Is there a clear and safe path in and out of the canteen? There could be a fall or trip on the stairs as they are unable to hold on due to carrying cups of hot drink. Perhaps spilling the drink will create a slip risk for themselves or other people in the office? Is the canteen safely setup to avoid any accidents involving hot water? Is the equipment easy to use and is there simple instructions to explain how?
If you need any assistance, or have any questions, get in touch with Colin and IMG and they can gladly help with office risk assessments or office safety training!
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
“First aid is there to make sure you’ve got the right things in place… if things go wrong”
In todays episode Colin is making sure you have adequate resources for first aid in your business and workplace(s). Make sure you have the best possible emergency plans and processes in place, should anybody ever need immediate help or further interventions (emergency arrangements and external help).
Colin has 6 points to consider! Risk Assessment: You want to be doing a Risk Assessment about your workplace and environment. - Is it local to a city or populated area? - Does the remote location of the job affect how quickly you would receive help, should you ever need it?
It is about making sure you get the right level of support and processes in place before an incident occurs
Adequate Training: Colin notes that this could be part of the issue; Sometimes getting someone to volunteer to be first-aid trained can be the initial hurdle. They need to be comfortable should a situation arises but also confident to take appropriate action. Once you have identified who it is who is first aid trained, make sure they have adequate training (and relevant to the types of injuries that could occur, highlighted in your risk assessment). This also includes refreshing the training and expanding upon it.
Provide a suitable Facilities for First Aid: you need a clean and tidy environment highlighted as the place to take an injured person(s). This space obviously needs to be suitably clean, tidy and well located within reasonable distances on-site. There also needs to be appropriate provisions of PPE and first aid equipment, if any of this be required should an incident occur.
Have Good Quality Provisions in place: Make sure your first aid(ers) are responsible for the aforementioned PPE and first aid equipment and supplies; Weekly or daily checklists to confirm it has all been checked, itemised and stocked appropriately. These systems make sure you are always prepared and you and your staff are aware of any used, missing or lacking in your provisions
Provide employees with the right information: Employees need the right information to act appropriately at the time of an incident. -Who are the first aiders? -Are they distinguishable by uniform (coloured vests or hard hats?)? what are their contact details? Where are the meeting points if a fire alarm is raised? What should they do in the instance of an accident and what is the chain of responsibility?
All these need to be clear so everything seamlessly works and no further accidents occur and first aid is administered correctly, quickly and by the appropriate personnel
Make sure the arrangements are in place for all shifts and periods of annual leave: It is imperative there aren’t breaks in your ability to supply your systems, processes and first aid responses. - Should your first aider go on annual leave, what would you do in an emergency? - What are your plans if the first aider is the staff affected?
Make sure you have redundancies, and make sure they’re solid.
BONUS: IMG Provide services and training for first aid (appointed courses, emergency first aid and mental health first aid). If you are interested or need some support please get in touch with Colin or the IMG Team!
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The majority of the times you need to consider manual handling, you will do this as part of the overall risk assessment. Manual handling will be just one of many hazards that are associated with the task (and you will manage it accordingly).
Colin wants to discuss specifically, those tasks that require much more manual handling (such as tasks where manual handling is essentially the biggest element of the job).
Look at your site as a whole; which tasks are on-going/ coming up? Which are you going to deal with as a standard risk assessment? And which are manual handling specific tasks?
Examples of manual handling specific tasks involve a lot of carrying, pulling, pushing and lifting. Bagging operations, goods-handling and product packing are great examples of this! Some of these will certainly contain multiple different manual handling tasks (lifting, lowering, moving, packing, bulk varieties of the previous)
Colin wants to bring attention to T.I.L.E. system; T – Task. Consider the manual handling activity itself and consider the hazards and job involved. Does it involve a range of movement and a mix of carrying, lifting and repetitive motions?
I – Individual. Who is doing the task? Are they physically capable or perhaps they need assistance? Is their age or existing health a consideration?
L – Load. Specifically what is manually being handled? Is it a variety of objects? Is it bulky? Heavy? Difficult to grip? Is it a liquid? Maybe it's hot or cold?
E – Environment. What is specific about the space in which you are performing the task? Is the route you have to carry the item/s clear? Is there space suitable? How about even or uneven surfaces (stairs? Ramps?)? Is there is a risk of slippery surfaces? And is the room sufficiently lit?
This system is standard when considering any manual handling task. Think of the last manual handling task you undertook and apply the T.I.L.E. Method; is there anything you hadn’t considered? What would you do differently?
Get in touch and let Colin know! As always, be sure to subscribe& comment and find Colin on all the socials!
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health And Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/training-competency-creating-effective-plan-process/id1467771449?i=1000452692837
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In this week’s show, Colin chats to fellow podcaster, and health and safety expert, Richard Collins about the ways in which new media, such as podcasts, can be used to communicate with, and engage with, workforces.
Engagement is sometimes incredibly difficult to improve. Traditional forms of communication seem to be largely ignored, so maybe it’s time to think of new, more interesting ways of talking to our workforces. Colin and Richard’s conversation will certainly inspire you to think differently.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Podcasting is proving to be a valuable means of communication for firms looking to communicate in new ways to their workforce. This solves many of the engagement issues that companies seem to have.
Email blasts, newsletters, or notices on bulletin boards, are often ignored and sometimes actively avoided by staff. New forms of communication and engagement are essential steps forward for all businesses.
The prospect of truly helping people is a large driving factor in Richard’s constant desire to do better, and to improve.
The world of today is all about communication, and broadening our reach when it comes to networking. Both Richard and Colin have greatly increased their own knowledge by talking to people from all over the world, and from different cultures.
New media presents its own challenges. We need to find new ways of telling our stories, or there’s little point utilising these unique channels and forms of communication.
Dynamic advertising is a new system that allows for contemporary messages to be implanted into content that’s already been sent out into the wild, meaning that content is essentially evergreen.
Smaller businesses have tighter budgets, which means that H&S solutions must be more creative. Larger businesses tend to be more standardised in their approach.
Both Colin and Richard acknowledge the need to engage with a wide range of people in the business hierarchy for their podcasts. This gives a better overview of the way companies work, and the different needs of different sectors.
BEST MOMENTS
‘People are really interested to hear people they know, speaking’
‘Why wait for the accident?’
‘Communication os fundamental’
’There’s a reason why people weren’t opening the emails’
‘You create an environment that’s safe but challenging’
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health And Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/training-competency-creating-effective-plan-process/id1467771449?i=1000452692837
Safeti Podcast - https://safeti.com/series/the-safeti-environment-health-and-safety-podcast/
Safeti - https://safeti.com
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
It’s another insightful conversation this week as Colin talks to Phil Redmond of the Institute Of Quarrying and formerly Hanson Aggregates, and who is now with Lehigh Hanson, and whose role is to make sure the company is the best it can possibly be. As such, Phil is supremely knowledgeable about health and safety issues, as well as other concerns and issues that can often hold a company back in terms of progress.
In the second part of their fascinating conversation, Phil and Colin discuss credibility, trust, competence, how to eradicate some of the more significant workplace hazards, and the cultural differences between Phil’s UK and US business life.
KEY TAKEAWAYS It’s incredibly important to create an environment where people feel comfortable enough to ask for change. Only by embracing the voices that we have trusted to keep our business running, can we truly effect positive change.
When dissecting the aftermath of a problem, we need to identify the root cause of what went wrong. It could be training, a personal issue, lack of understanding, or an interpretation issue. Only then can we decide upon accountability.
Change is coming swiftly these days, and it’s for the better. Even things like road safety for workers has been drastically improved.
Advances in safety have been rapid. Advances in health, too, are vital, and can only really move forward through constant collaboration and communication.
Phil notes that the positivity in the same industry in the US, and the “can do” nature of the workers and the industry there, are the main things that he would choose to import to the UK if he got the chance.
BEST MOMENTS
’You have to listen to what the business is asking for’
‘We are where we are, but it’s about where we’re going to go with it’
‘I never use the word “blame”'
‘Listening is more important than talking most of the time’
‘We can always learn'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health And Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/training-competency-creating-effective-plan-process/id1467771449?i=1000452692837
Phil Redmond LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/phil-redmond-b6136927/?originalSubdomain=uk
Lehigh Hanson - https://www.lehighhanson.com
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Colin talks Stress and Mental health awareness. As part of a Mental Health First Aid England programme Colin witnessed with a client, he saw some fantastic and simple key messages to help relieve stress in yourself and others in the workplace! Colin has summarised most of this information and shared with you as he feels it is important in your business to take care of you and your colleagues mental well-being
Coping Strategies and self-care-tips to help protect yourself against stress. This included things to try; and things to avoid!
Try! Get Moving by doing activities like walking or sports! Eat well; Healthy diet, healthy mind! Having ‘you’ time; Setting aside time to have fun and indulge yourself (Having ‘you’ time) Learning a new skill; Learning a new instrument, language or maybe a trade or useful skill. Get Better at Sharing your feelings; its okay to ask for help& support. Don’t be frightened to help yourself. Switch off from distractions
Avoid! Overdoing it on sugar, caffeine and alcohol Overworking; Leave work at work, don’t take it home with you Don’t chase perfection; Be it in your own personal life and self image, or maybe work aspirations. Accept who you are and don’t apply excessive pressure on yourself with unrealistic expectations Don’t Bottle it up; make sure you don’t bottle up your feelings, positive or negative. Make sure to talk about things and don’t let your feelings build and escalate.
KEY TAKEAWAYS mhfaengland.org
ABOUT HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry.
Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, -an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer.
He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH)
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
It’s another insightful conversation this week as Colin talks to Phil Redmond of the Institute Of Quarrying and formerly Hanson Aggregates, and who is now with Lehigh Hanson, and whose role is to make sure the company is the best it can possibly be. As such, Phil is supremely knowledgeable about health and safety issues, as well as other concerns and issues that can often hold a company back in terms of progress.
In the first part of their fascinating conversation, Phil discusses how the industry is moving beyond physical conditions, the biggest changes he’s seen in the last thirty years, and the ways in which Phil and Colin have had a hand in helping the industry to grow and evolve.
KEY TAKEAWAYS For Phil, the biggest change in health and safety since he began thirty years ago, is the move to be more collaborative between operatives and supervisory managers.
We should always lead by example. When people see positive change occur, they are far more likely to push for positive change themselves.
In all industries, but especially in the quarry industry, you can never entirely eliminate risk. Instead we should see it, embrace it, and try to make it a part of everything we do.
The ability to identify a hazard is a very personal skill. Familiarity is a dangerous buffer sometimes. A person who has worked in an environment for a long time may have become numb to the hazards all around them, and so when risk is determined by someone, it becomes a personal experience.
Communication is critical in the industry, not just in transmitting the hazards of quarrying to the workers, but also to communicate these concerns to the next generation of leaders, who will take the industry onward.
One of the biggest victories scored by the quarrying industry is that the working environment they have shaped and created is attracting new talent of all backgrounds and sexes, meaning that it has become extraordinarily progressive.
BEST MOMENTS
’The industry now is vastly different to the one we started in’
‘Can you imagine us thirty years ago having a conversation about mental health? It just wouldn’t have been on the agenda’
‘It wasn’t that I broke the rules. I was broken as an individual’
‘Many people will put their hands up because they see the outcome of consultation’
‘Experienced; not old!’
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health And Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/training-competency-creating-effective-plan-process/id1467771449?i=1000452692837
Phil Redmond LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/phil-redmond-b6136927/?originalSubdomain=uk
Lehigh Hanson - https://www.lehighhanson.com
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Not all workplaces will have confined space, but those that have need to have good controls in place for those who need to go into confined spaces to do any maintenance work or repairs. There are a few things you must consider before letting people go into confined spaces such as access, testing the atmosphere and if the area they’re going into is properly isolated so equipment won’t start. You also need to think of the job they are doing. If you’re just going in to do a check, there’s a small chance it will be dangerous, but if you’re going in to do maintenance or something that could affect the atmosphere then there needs to be more control put into place.
Confined space rescue
Confined space rescue is very important but is something that is rarely practised. There are a few things you could consider in order to be prepared. Firstly, have a plan for confined space rescue. Make sure that the people involved in the rescue are trained, competent and have a good understanding of the equipment they will be using. Finally, you need to make sure the equipment available is appropriate for the environment you’re working in. Review your process Every company will have a different confined space rescue plan that works best for them. But often, people tend to overlook small details that would actually make the rescue a lot harder. Plans may be done quickly and thought provoking questions may not be asked. This is important to ensure you have looked at the rescue from all angles and worked out what you would do for unique situations. So when doing your plan, ask yourself questions and what you would do in certain situations and then see if the plan is still viable. If it’s not, work out another way to do it. This ensures a safe and appropriate plan is created for any situation. Look at confined spaces individually Confined space rescue plans cannot be looked at with a ‘one size fits all’ approach. Each confined space should be reviewed individually and plans should be tailored to that space. Look at the access, look at how you’ll make the rescue, look at where you want to be positioning the rescue equipment, you should ensure individuals taking part are highly trained and finally, you should practice.
Most organisations will have a confined space rescue plan in place, but it doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s the most effective one. When going over a rescue plan, it’s important to ensure that in an emergency, you are able to get everyone out quickly and safely without adding extra danger and hazards. How do you ensure your rescue plan is the safest way to react in an emergency?
It’s really important that each confined space has its own rescue plan. Each space will be different and will have different access, will need different equipment and will need the rescue to adapt accordingly. Are all your confined space rescue plans the same or do you tailor them to each individual space?
Control in confined spaces in the workplace is very important. You need to ensure those going into a confined space are in safe working conditions. You need to look at what kind of job the worker will be doing whilst in there. If it’s a quick check, there is minimal risk that something will happen. However, they could be going in to do maintenance or something, where the atmosphere could change so more control, would need to be put in place. What sort of control would you implement in this situation?
ABOUT HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry.
Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, -an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer.
He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH)
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Professor Andrew Sharman is the head of a risk-consultancy, and president of IOSH (The Institute For Occupational Health And Safety). As one of the leading lights in health and safety, Andrew has been instrumental in promoting competency and behavioural safety in the workplace, and has joined Colin today to talk about the challenges he’s faced so far in ensuring we’re all kept safe in our jobs, as well as his vision for the future.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
IOSH has been looking to the future for some time now, utilising a strategy called Work 2022, which leverages on three key points:
How practitioners influence people
How they enhance the work that’s being done
How to collaborate to gain success
Vision Zero is a proposed strategy to keep all of the world’s employees out of harm’s way whilst at work. The Dupont Corporation founded this principle in the 18th century.
Zero Harm is the proposed strategy that looks to eliminate work-based injuries by implementing safe work systems. The ffectiveness of this strategy is controversial.
The Vision Zero concept has seven golden rules:
Taking leadership and demonstrating commitment
Identifying hazards and controllable risks
Setting targets
Ensuring safe systems in the workplace
Realising the importance of interface
Developing competence and improving qualifications
Motivation through participation
Rules and framework are essential, but they must never be weaponised in order to promote safety. It’s far more effective to promote positive development.
The IOSH competency framework is directly designed to support practitioners with the challenges required, and to aid in the ever-evolving technological landscape.
While senior leaders committed to improving health and safety, it is the discharging of these commitments that will prove to be the most effective. They need to make sure that promises are fulfilled.
It's hard to motivate and engage people by simply telling them to comply. Senior leaders must step up and ensure that the workplace can feel the commitment to safety. This will be the biggest driving factor in measure being adopted on a larger scale
BEST MOMENTS
’This strategy has been borne out of deep thinking about what the future world of work looks like’
’To go to work and come home again at the end of the day is a basic human right’
‘It’s really great to see passion’
’There’s a real shift in the way that information is being shared’
‘It’s about listening as much as it is about talking’
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health And Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/training-competency-creating-effective-plan-process/id1467771449?i=1000452692837
The Institution Of Occupational Health and Safety - https://www.iosh.com
Dr Andrew Sharman LInkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/adsharman/?originalSubdomain=ch
The Healthy Profit Report - https://www.iosh.com/more/iosh-means-business/healthy-profit/
andrew@rmsswitzerland.com
EHS Congress - http://ehscongress.com
Use the Code INTERESTING at www.fromaccidentstozero.com to receive your special discount as an Interesting Health And Safety Podcast listener
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Recently, whilst running the IOSH Safety Management course, Colin sat back and reflected a little bit on accident investigation case studies discussed.
He noted there were 4 bullet points; Making a safer working environment Improving worker morale Preventing further business disruptions and downtime Developing useful skills & Knowledge that can be applied throughout the organisation
Colin thinks these are all fantastic things every business should be doing all the time, not only when there is an incident.
When there is an incident, there are a lot more people involved; management and even the senior management team join in. Colin wants to know, why aren’t we doing this already rather than only when there’s a problem, or worse a serious incident? Perhaps this could be avoided if we consider these 4 bullet points every day and on every job; not just as resolution to an incident
“Rather than ‘accident investigations’; maybe call them ‘business improvement investigations’?… Because if you’re going to do it when its going well; then you’re going to hopefully find the potential downfalls before they happen”
-Colin Nottage
ABOUT HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry.
Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, -an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer.
He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH)
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In today's episode. Colin wants to know;
“Is it ever right that ‘no’ isn’t the right answer? ”
Colin recalls of his time in the Shetland islands! Whilst on the Shetland islands, Colin calls back to seeing a team replacing machinery components and how the weather impacted the job at hand. In voicing his concerns to the site manager at the time, Colin asked: “Why are you letting them work out here; the weather is so bad?” To which he received the following reply;
“If we don’t do it, it will never get done; the weather is like this all the time”
You have to work around the environment you are in; it is just another variable in your risk assessment. Delaying could cause work to take weeks to be completed.
Even in harsh environments (be it arid, damp, cold or hot); ‘stuff’ still needs to happen. Maintenance doesn’t sleep and is it really safe to leave it?
ABOUT HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry.
Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, -an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer.
He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH)
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This is a concise and hugely useful guide to assessing, recognising and controlling noise in the workplace.
Colin shares some great advice and provides a step by step process that will ensure any business can effectively manage and control noise in the workplace. Listen in and find out how you can be effective in controlling noise in your workplace.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Undertake a noise assessment You can do this with an App – to ascertain a general indication of levels but having an in-depth noise level assessment will help you to understand in detail any areas of concern. Who is affected by the noise? It’s not just about the level of noise its also about the length of time people are exposed When the assessment is made any levels must be ‘weighted up’ to take into account the amount of time someone is exposed to the noise level whilst they are in the workplace If the amount of time is calculated then you have accurate information about the level and potential impact. Get the right control measures in place to minimise the noise level at the source If you cant encapsulate the noise or remove it the person in the area will need to wear some type of hearing protection
BEST MOMENTS
‘These bring the noise level down by 30 -35 decibels you need to get the right hearing protection for the problem’
‘Having clear information so that people can effectively take action’
‘In lots of cases, noise assessment reports are put into a drawer and never looked at again’
ABOUT HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry.
Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, -an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer.
He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH)
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Colin explains how you can set up a system to engage with your team in a positive way so there’s some accountability too. He also discusses the importance of consistently challenging the way things are done or completed within the business.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Do you hold any safety meeting at all? If not then you’re missing an opportunity to give excellent training and have people altogether so you can cover ALL parts of your business. When you’re holding a meeting have an agenda. Have people give their top 3 issues and keep a note of the things you’re covering and who’s accountable for which tasks so that the next meeting you can cover what has been done and what hasn’t. Ensure if a task isn't completed, keep it on the list until it is so it doesn’t get lost. Keep an open and honest environment so you can learn from what’s gone wrong to ensure it doesn’t happen again. Consistently challenge the way people do things and view things. Always get the reports and feedback from inspections that you’ve had to see how you can change things for the better. Talk about what training and development people need in order to progress and improve their own development. Keep up to date with legislation so that you can update your systems and processes to work best alongside new laws.
BEST MOMENTS
’Keep track of your tasks so they don’t get lost’
‘There’s loads of learnings when things go wrong’.
‘Things don’t always get solved there and then’.
‘Challenge your systems and procedures’
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health And Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/training-competency-creating-effective-plan-process/id1467771449?i=1000452692837
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
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Welcome to Colins Latest Safety Short! Today we are going to discuss Fire Safety! Listen closely to this brief guide. Colin urges you to always seek advice from trained and qualified professionals but offers these tips as a fantastic place to start when discussing Fire safety within the workplace.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Get a competent Fire risk assessment (carried out by appropriate personnel). This includes risk assessments specifically for fire safety, but also observations for future risks. This is almost always carried out by a trained professional or professional organisation with the correct certification to do so.
Look at the findings of the assessment! Issues such as sources of ignition (electricity, naked flame, heat sources) and fuel (dry materials like wood, foam and paper) for a fire or potential fire hazards
Clear guidance for your employees, making sure they understand the obvious and potentially hidden hazards within the workplace (including procedures and preventative measures, as well as redundancy for if/when a fire occurs).
Making sure that employees understand their roles when it comes to fire safety! This includes different roles, such as wardens and trained personnel who know how to correctly use fire extinguishers (surprisingly common for many people to not know!). Also, consider who and when certain personnel are required to contact each other and the specific circumstances and measures to ensure this happens.
ABOUT THE HOST Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Welcome to the award-winning Interesting Health & Safety Podcast!
In today's episode, Colin wants to talk about perception; Your perception of the workplace, then the perception that you then need to give to the people in the workplace (when considering workplace activities).
KEY TAKEAWAYS
As a manager or director, the way you view the plant/facility and machinery is very different to that of a staff member in charge of maintenance; A director sees the monetary value in machinery and its output in correlation to cost and profit. Whereas a Maintenance man will see a series of processes, materials, machines and productions (and all these require to keep the plant/facility running) If you’re an employee/operative, what you are doing is looking at the workplace as an opportunity to work and earn some money so you can live (and more!). It is also a social environment as well as a place of employment.
This same building and facility is viewed very differently by all members of staff. From a health and saftey perspective; you can’t look at the jobs/tasks and the risks/hazards with those same differences!
You need to ‘get down and dirty’ and start seeing these facilities, jobs, productions (etc) from the eyes of employees & maintenance as well as management; otherwise you have blindspots.
“What I am really saying is.. Don’t look at your workplace just through your eyes. Take some time to actually look at how other people perceive the workplace… talk to the people that are doing the job. Look at the risks, look at the hazards through their eyes”
-Colin Nottage.
ABOUT THE HOST Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
“To truly understand failure in your organisation; you first must understand how your organisation reacts to failure” -Sidney decker
The relationship between ‘risk in the business’ and ‘your business’. The risk belongs to the organisation, not the individual. Listen in how and why this the case!
“If you have an activity where there’s a chance that somebody could be seriously harmed or injured… Then the last thing you want to have is a control measure that expects that individual to make the final call on whether to do the job or not… You want a series of controls… checks and balances to make sure that the job is done in a way where you can interact with the risk; you can work along side it and it becomes part of the way you do the job” -Colin Nottage
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ABOUT THE HOST Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In this edition of the “award-winning” Interesting Health And Safety Podcast, Colin talks to Eric Ball, the man who runs the occupational health system for Park Health And Safety about the many projects he’s worked on, including heath and safety for the London Olympics 2012, HS2, Battersea Power Station and Thames Tideway.
In this second part of their two-part conversation, Eric and Colin talk about the importance of good designers, effective education around materials, the sometimes surprising factors that need to be considered when planning a project, and the importance of prevention.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Effective design can be a source of great education for both Eric’s team, and the designers themselves. Healthy collaboration leads to forward-thinking innovation, and can help to push the sector onward.
Learning about the health benefits and detriments of chemicals and materials is an ever-evolving and ongoing pursuit.
Every single project has its own demands, its own drivers. It can be a simple case of location at times. Projects must be weighed and balanced around many different factors, even something as simple as transport links to and from the area.
Many businesses see the introduction of occupational health as a “can of worms” that will cause huge disruption. But Eric points out that although this may be the case to an extent, it will pale in comparison to the scenarios that may develop down the line if not addressed early.
The key to effective engagement is to make the engagement appealing to the teams personally. By benefitting them directly, and having a positive impact on their personal wellbeing, you can create a natural sense of engagement that proliferates outside of the strictures of business-ordered health and safety.
BEST MOMENTS
‘Designers are by their nature inquisitive and challenging’
’The healthiest way to build a tunnel is not to build a tunnel’
‘It’ll be nothing compared to the “can of worms” that will open on you if you don’t engage in legislative compliance’
’The more they do that, the more they become attuned to the things that happen in the workplace'
‘It’s the guys on the sharp end who are becoming the “police force”’
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health And Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/training-competency-creating-effective-plan-process/id1467771449?i=1000452692837
Park Health And Safety - https://parkhs.co.uk/#home
Eric Ball LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-ball-582a2822/?originalSubdomain=uk
Eric Ball Park Health And Safety - https://parkhs.co.uk/team/eric-ball/
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In today's episode, listen in as Colin quickly talks about denying people the opportunity to voice their opinions, and why you should do your best not to do this.
Don’t get defensive when criticised, when issues are raised. Taking it personally and going in defensively will ensure you will not see any situation or scenario from any perspective other than your own.
Make your business safe, for people to talk out. You will only benefit from feedback.
Don’t Deny. Don’t defend. Don’t Delay
As always, get in touch and let Colin know your comments and feedback!
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In this edition of the “award-winning” Interesting Health And Safety Podcast, Colin talks to Eric Ball, the man who runs the occupational health system for Park Health And Safety about the many projects he’s worked on, including heath and safety for the London Olympics 2012, HS2, Battersea Power Station and Thames Tideway.
In this first part of their two-part conversation, Eric and Colin talk about understanding the challenges of occupational hygiene, the business perception of occupational health, and the importance of introducing health and safety planning as early as possible on construction projects.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Eric is an occupational hygienist at heart, a job that began in construction around the Olympics, and which has kept him mainly below ground ever since. Eric’s specialist area is major civil projects and major construction projects.
Occupational health on any large project needs to begin as early as possible. It is ultimately driven by the client, but must be considered as early as the planning stages.
Occupational health can be seen as sometimes over complicated due to its many facets, and this can cause companies to be cautious of the practice. But actually it is relatively simple once you have the right people in place.
When working with designers on projects, Eric and his team work to best practices. As he stresses agin, occupational health at the design stage can’t start soon enough.
Essential planning in the early stages with Eric and his team can help to eliminate larger costs down the line. By correctly anticipating construction needs sooner rather than later, it can lead to less maintenance, as well as a reduced need for repairs.
BEST MOMENTS
‘I’ve really been spending most of my time below ground’
‘Occupational health is health of health and safety’
‘We’re talking about long-latency problems’
‘Once you get someone in who’s half competent, then it’s a fairly simple process’
‘Most projects have a big win’
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health And Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/training-competency-creating-effective-plan-process/id1467771449?i=1000452692837
Park Health And Safety - https://parkhs.co.uk/#home
Eric Ball LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-ball-582a2822/?originalSubdomain=uk
Eric Ball Park Health And Safety - https://parkhs.co.uk/team/eric-ball/
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Happy New Year! Now everyone’s back to work, take the time to reengage with the workforce. Think about your objectives for the coming year, and make a plan so your goals come to fruition. Training and accreditation can help you move forward.
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
If you can, take the time to rest over the holidays. If you’re at work, keep your foot on the ball; monitor any maintenance activities and make sure everything is safe for when everyone comes back in the New Year.
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
What are you going to do when you get back from the New Year? Take time to reflect, get your people together and have a back to work meeting. Inspect the workplace and make sure everything is in order, then you can have a strong start to 2020. Have a great time over the holidays!
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, Colin meets Christian Harris, the founder of Slip Safety Services, experts in slip testing and anti-slip treatments.
Colin and Christian talk about everything from slips and trips to flooring conditions and staircases, in an insightful, informative conversation that everyone will find incredibly useful.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Slip Safety are a floor maintenance company with two key specialist areas: Cleanliness and hygiene in hard to clean areas. such as kitchens and poolsides. Prevention of slips, trips and falls, particularly in environments where floors are likely to get wet.
It was important for Christian to use his time and career to focus on something that would make a positive difference to the world. Christian takes huge pride in helping people to solve problems.
When your heel touches the floor, if there is sufficient friction between the two, then you will not slip. The pendulum test mimics this in a scientific way, and tells how slip-resistant the floor’s surface is.
Floors and their surfaces wear and change over time. Cleaning regimes can have a huge impact. Some of the chemicals we use today were not taken into account when certain floors were made.
30% of care home residents fall in any given year. Of those who fall, 75% are likely to fall again. Older people are far more susceptible to serious injury.
Lighting is critical. We need to make sure that walkways are illuminated not just for obstacles or spillages, but also so that we can visually appraise the surface of the floor.
People are more likely to register an injury claim in private sector places. Christian puts this down to the sense that people seem to have, that there is more money in privately owned places, than publicly owned ones.
There is a direct correlation between clean, hygienic premises and customer satisfaction, and therefore sales. Studies show that clean places often report increases in sales of around 20%. In leisure this is heightened.
BEST MOMENTS
’I spend too much time on my hands and knees in toilets!’
‘Environment is something that people often neglect’
’Things like single steps are a big issue’
’There’s a correlation between cleanliness and customer satisfaction’
‘It’s not expensive stuff. It just requires a bit more thought'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health And Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/training-competency-creating-effective-plan-process/id1467771449?i=1000452692837
Slip Safety - https://slipsafety.co.uk
Christian Harris LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/christian-harris-slip-safety/?originalSubdomain=uk
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Colin is with Rob Moore ‘The Disruptive Entrepreneur’ and founder of Progressive Property, the UK’s largest property education training business.
What people don’t know about Rob is he loves listening to vinyl, won face of Peterborough 1999, was used as a case study with the local council for planning regulations, and for him, business is a passion and profession merge that he could be doing 18 hours a day.
They talk about the value of communication and the many ways we can do this effectively in business along with the importance of health and safety whatever our business and the truly inclusive aspects of disrupting health and safety in a positive way, listen in and find out more.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Communication Communication is linguistical, practical, human and emotional - how you talk to people, lift and inspire them, how you serve and support them. You have to know what to put on email and what not to. Often you want to communicate in the way that’s easiest for you when you should be communicating in the way that’s best for the person you want to speak with You have to be very clear about what is public and what is private. Nobody likes to be shamed or reprimanded in public. Know what someone’s favoured method of communication is and know the right communication channels to use. If you have a staff structure it’s key that it’s used for communication. I believe every member of staff has a defined role. I have 2 roles as a leader and one is to develop other leaders in my organisation and the other is to be clear on my own role and deliver it really well. Within this leadership role are the culture and values that I have and want to instil across the business.
Health and safety We are not a company who has much above the general level of first aid and CPR, our main responsibility is to our clients and employees. This includes creating a safe and healthy environment for employees to work in and clients to visit. All areas of business are really important. Although I’m not directly responsible for areas it is all still my ultimate responsibility It’s important that health and safety are taken seriously by everyone in the business all of the time.
BEST MOMENTS
‘I am a strategic thinker and that is my role’
‘I feel if my team enjoy and want to come to work half my job is done’
‘Good mental health and well-being isn’t just about your mind it’s about doing things for you that make you feel uplifted and energised’
‘You have to find the right amount of sleep for you along with an effective diet and exercise routine’
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast
Life Leverage by Rob Moore
The Disruptive Entrepreneur podcast
ABOUTTHE HOST
Colin’sBiography
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential
Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into the industry.
Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes
that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving
many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer.
He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, Colin was privileged to be asked to give a keynote address at the East Midlands Health and Safety Forum event on the subject of dust, most notably respirable crystalline silica, which has been associated with elevated rates of lung cancer, and the measures being used to combat the effects of dust in the quarry industry.
Now you can hear Colin’s fascinating keynote address for yourself, as this week’s episode is a direct recording of that very keynote event.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Dust is the second biggest killer in the construction industry. Typically the worst problem areas are sand and concrete, wood dust, gypsum and plasterboard. Larger dust is known as “Inhalable”, and can generally be seen by the naked eye. Smaller dust is known as “Respirable”. Your body has a great number of natural defence mechanisms. Saliva prevents dust from being inhaled. If your mouth is dry on a dusty site, then this is your body doing its job. Silica is all around us and in the majority of cases doesn't cause any problems. It quickly loses its toxicity, but if inhaled before that point can lead to lung disease. The best ways to combat harmful dust inhalation are:
Enclose it Extract it Suppress it
In 2003, when the England Rugby team went to Australia to participate in the Rugby World Cup, they took their own pillows with them. This was to ensure that the team got a good night’s sleep, and so felt that tiny bit more prepared for their opponents. With dust, it’s all about incremental, small preparations that lead to the bigger victories.
BEST MOMENTS
’Dust is defined by its size’
’That is your body telling you that you’ve been exposed to something’
‘When I run I breathe 440 million times a year!’
‘Most of the dust in this room is dead skin - so that’s nice isn’t it…'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health And Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/training-competency-creating-effective-plan-process/id1467771449?i=1000452692837
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
After surviving a serious accident twenty years ago which left him paralysed, Jason Anker has turned his focus to motivational speaking, so as to help everyone better understand the events surrounding his accident, but also the mindset required to move on and ensure it doesn’t happen in your workplace.
In the second part of their conversation, Jason talks about the moving on process, letting go of anger, the effects of monetary compensation, and the practical ways that have helped him to rediscover himself.
KEY TAKEAWAYS After a drugs overdose and a bout of alcoholism, Jason applied himself to outdoor pursuits, such as water skiing. This also allowed him the opportunity to reconnect with his family.
The act of chasing compensation was long and arduous, and added great pain to Jason’s recovery period. The cheque, when it finally arrived, although a large amount of money at the time, was ultimately small in comparison to the things he had lost.
One of the most powerful forms of rehabilitation was looking for, and finding work again. By discovering his new place in the world, Jason was able to feel useful again, and to work his way back to normality.
Over time, Jason has learned to love himself again. He no longer indulges in unhealthy food and drinks, and has made other incremental changes that have all added up to a feeling of contentment and inner peace.
The workplace culture is highly beneficial to everyone. Work is so often seen as a grind or a process that we must work our way though. By creating a positive culture in the workplace, we can improve our wellbeing and our output.
BEST MOMENTS
‘Blame achieves nothing’
‘It’s been a rocky road up and down’
‘All I can change now is what I do in the future’
‘What a great term - we are here’
‘Don’t create a safety culture - just create a culture’
‘A beneficial culture is an investment'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health And Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/training-competency-creating-effective-plan-process/id1467771449?i=1000452692837
Jason Anker Website - https://www.jasonankerlive.com/about_jason/
Jason Anker Twitter - https://twitter.com/Proud2bSafe
ABOUT THE GUEST
Jason Anker was paralysed from the waist down due to an avoidable incident on a construction site in 1993 when he fell off a ladder. He was 24 years old.
His story of his life before the incident, the day of the incident, the time spent in hospital and rehab, his initial release from hospital and his struggle with life over the last 26 years is an honest and sometimes graphic account of the devastation the incident has had on Jason and his family & friends.
For 26 years he was unable to talk openly about his experience of a work related major incident. This is reflected in a story that is very raw; the emotion in which he delivers his talk is as strong as if it was the day of the incident.
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
After surviving a serious accident twenty years ago which left him paralysed, Jason Anker has turned his focus to motivational speaking, so as to help everyone better understand the events surrounding his accident, but also the mindset required to move on and ensure it doesn’t happen in your workplace.
In the first part of Colin’s interview with Jason, he discusses the accident itself and its aftermath, the responsibility that staff and managers face in making decisions as to the day to day suitability of someone to face the potential risks in their job, and the effects of mental health issues in the workplace.
KEY TAKEAWAYS As managers, we need to have the courage to halt proceedings if we feel that a staff member is not up to the task, or may face danger. Similarly, as staff, we should have the courage to speak up if we do not feel up to the task.
Jason suffered his fall while performing a job he wasn’t supposed to have been performing, using the wrong equipment, and while unsupervised.
One of the most traumatic experiences during aftercare was the feeling that he was surely going to undergo a miraculous recovery, but being constantly disappointed by his inability to do so.
Jason was invited to many events to talk about his experience, and while doing so, he gained a wealth of knowledge on correct safety procedures, which he has since incorporated into his own speaking.
Anger was highly debilitating following the accident. There was a genuine sense of frustration at the world that took many years to overcome.
BEST MOMENTS
‘It wasn't about breaking rules. I was broken as an individual’
‘When you’re in hospital and you're a patient, you are visited. But when you get out it’s very different’
’The mental wellbeing side has so much impact on safety in the workplace’
‘Workplace rules are fine until they get weaponised'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health And Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/training-competency-creating-effective-plan-process/id1467771449?i=1000452692837
Jason Anker Website - https://www.jasonankerlive.com/about_jason/
Jason Anker Twitter - https://twitter.com/Proud2bSafe
ABOUT THE GUEST
Jason Anker was paralysed from the waist down due to an avoidable incident on a construction site in 1993 when he fell off a ladder. He was 24 years old.
His story of his life before the incident, the day of the incident, the time spent in hospital and rehab, his initial release from hospital and his struggle with life over the last 26 years is an honest and sometimes graphic account of the devastation the incident has had on Jason and his family & friends.
For 26 years he was unable to talk openly about his experience of a work related major incident. This is reflected in a story that is very raw; the emotion in which he delivers his talk is as strong as if it was the day of the incident.
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Are you stopping people talking to you, without realising you are stopping people talking to you?
It’s very easy to do this by the way you act and communicate but communicating with others is one of the most important things we do.
Colin offers some great practical advice about the things you should be taking into account when you communicate with others in the workplace.
If you want your business to be one with good communication then listen to this podcast and find out how to communicate well so that your message is heard.
Businesses that communicate well do better and that’s a fact! so get started now.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
How we can get things wrong Communication is a 2-way street and we often don’t listen properly to others - it’s annoying if you are talking to someone and their attention wanders. Focus on the person who is communicating with you - pay attention to them Ask the question in a different way - this is communicating without putting pressure into the equation. There could be a language barrier or the technical terminology can be confusing - keep it clear and concise. It could be down to people’s expectations and prejudices - they don’t hear what’s being said or you can go in having already decided on the outcome. There can be differences in views which may lead to conflict - when people want to get their own point across they stop listening to others. There may be physical challenges - such as hearing problems
What can be done? When you are putting the message out - be very clear, very concise, keep the message simple and to the point. Make the message appropriate for the listener - you may communicate verbally then back it up with a visual or something else that helps to explain. Communication is also about listening and this is the area most people get wrong Try active listening techniques; Give affirmations as they are speaking. Ask a question so they have an opportunity to reaffirm their message Reaffirm what they have said so they know that they have been listened to Give people in the workplace the time and go out and have some great conversations
BEST MOMENTS
‘Most conflicts arise because of a lack of communication’
‘Bad decisions are made because people don’t communicate properly’
‘In businesses that do communication well you are raising the expectation for the level of communication and if it drops people quickly begin to criticise
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast
ABOUTTHE HOST
Colin’sBiography
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential
Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry.
Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes
that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving
many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer.
He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, Colin chats to former rugby union player and Air force Flying officer Rory Underwood.
Many people know of Rory’s illustrious sporting and military careers, but may not also be aware that since leaving both behind him, he has become a renowned management consultant and motivational speaker.
In the second part of Colin’s chat with Rory, you’ll hear about Rory’s views on accountability, the business lessons he learned from the Air Force, how to increase business awareness, and the common operational business mistakes he sees too often.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Blame creates a divisive culture. It all boils down to trust within the organisation. We need to empower people and give them a sense of autonomy, but we also need to accept responsibility when issues arise. Empowerment and accountability done right will engender trust.
Too many companies focus on the deliverables, and on the numbers. This needs to be done, but awareness of how the business itself is operating, and ensuring it is achieving its full potential, is being too often ignored.
Rory’s training can’t magically turn someone into a better manager, but it does provide the tools, knowledge and direction, so that you can become a great manager yourself.
Every employee should have a core imperative; a knowledge of the main objective of the business. Everyone should be working towards this ultimate objective.
Far too much time is spent on working out who is to blame for issues that have arisen, rather than fixing the problem.
People think risk is a black and white scenario. It isn’t. Potential risks are just that. Increasing awareness of potential hazards and risks is paramount.
Running your own business is a challenge. There is always pressure, because performance impacts not just you, but the people you support.
BEST MOMENTS
‘Empowerment but accountability’
’All we’re trying to do is give you the knowledge and tools to help you do the job’
‘You’ve got the knowledge, but have you got the skills to deliver it?’
’The best salesperson doesn’t always make the best sales manager’
‘Do you understand what your core imperative is?’
‘I didn’t do it for the buzz. I enjoy the job I did'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health And Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/training-competency-creating-effective-plan-process/id1467771449?i=1000452692837
Wingman - https://www.wingmanltd.com
Wingman LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/company/wingmanltd/
Wingman Twitter - https://twitter.com/wingman_ltd?lang=en-gb
ABOUT THE GUEST
Rory Underwood MBE is an English former rugby union player. He is England's record international try scorer with 49 tries in 85 internationals between 1984 and 1996. He also played for Middlesbrough, Bedford Blues and the Royal Air Force, as well as touring with the British and Irish Lions in 1989 and 1993, playing in six tests and scoring one try.
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
‘Mix it up and get better interaction with those around the table’
Colin advises on the best ways to organise effective health and safety meetings that impact on the business and ensure ongoing compliance and understanding across the workforce.
He takes us step by step through an effective agenda and explains how and why each item is a vital component in an effective approach to health and safety in any workplace.
If you can get some of these things in place your business will be successful so listen in and get started.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Involving everyone around the table at a health and safety meeting is the key to a successful meeting with actions that will move the business forward. Previous minutes - keep a record of actions completed, that people have been listened to and successful activities. Top Issues – ask the question; what is concerning you? and get everyone involved Risk assessments, safety systems and procedures - Review one process or system at each meeting. Why not make a site inspection or walk part of the meeting? Health and safety training - Review training that has taken place
Is there a training plan how can people develop through the business Health and safety legislation - Review any changes how does that impact us in this business what do we need to do to make sure we are complying Accidents and incidents - The accidents and incidents in the workplace are not a reflection of how safety is managed the controls are the reflection on how safety is managed.
How the incidents have affected those who work alongside and how the person involved in the incident is affected is what’s really important The promotion of health and safety - What do we want to talk about to raise the profile of health and safety, how can this best be achieved?
BEST MOMENTS
‘The key is to not stop people, let them tell-all, the more they share the more you can get out of the business’
‘Have we as a business done all we can’
‘Don’t do a toolbox talk about confined spaces if you don’t work in any’
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast
HSE.gov.uk
ABOUTTHE HOST
Colin’sBiography
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential
Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry.
Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes
that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving
many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer.
He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, Colin chats to former rugby union player and Air force Flying officer Rory Underwood.
Many people know of Rory’s illustrious sporting and military careers, but may not also be aware that since leaving both behind him, he has become a renowned management consultant and motivational speaker.
In the first part of Colin’s chat with Rory, you’ll hear about his transition between successful careers, the ways in which he measures a successful business, how to scale up effectively and the true meaning of proper communication.
KEY TAKEAWAYS When Rory left the Air Force he was planning to become an airline pilot. It was his interest in human performance during this transition phase that drew him to where he is now.
Team building, for many, seems to conjure images of physical exercise in groups, such as paint-balling. Rory wished to change this perception, and so set up UPH, a management and teamwork training company.
Success is often measure din terms of how well the business performs financially. Rory believes that they should also measure how well their workforce operates as a team. Are they performing to their maximum potential?
Effective scaling measures are vital to a growing company. Companies that were relatively small suddenly find themselves hiring managers, and asking tough questions about how to hand over control of a business they raised from nothing.
Rory very much enjoys getting his hands dirty when it comes to his business. He is happiest when dealing with all facets of the running of the business.
The main job of a CEO should be to put themselves out of work by building a successful team beneath them that will allow the business to run autonomously.
BEST MOMENTS
‘In a big airline you’re a glorified bus driver’
‘If you don’t create the right environment, then how are you going to get the best out of them?’
‘Letting go is a very difficult thing to do’
’The business world predicates itself very much toward the individual’
’The business has still got to be run’
‘Your role is to do yourself out of a job'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health And Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/training-competency-creating-effective-plan-process/id1467771449?i=1000452692837
Wingman - https://www.wingmanltd.com
Wingman LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/company/wingmanltd/
Wingman Twitter - https://twitter.com/wingman_ltd?lang=en-gb
ABOUT THE GUEST
Rory Underwood MBE is an English former rugby union player. He is England's record international try scorer with 49 tries in 85 internationals between 1984 and 1996. He also played for Middlesbrough, Bedford Blues and the Royal Air Force, as well as touring with the British and Irish Lions in 1989 and 1993, playing in six tests and scoring one try.
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In this episode of The Interesting Health and Safety Podcast, Colin discusses Learning vs Punishment when you want to positively improve upon a mistake.
Colin has just been with a client, discussing what they do in these kinds of situations. The example described is one of the client's employee’s has been driving a large piece of machinery, aiding the maintenance team moving a barrel of oil. After dropping of their load, he reversed into the maintenance team’s van!
The client's question is as follows;
“Should I discipline the employee”
Colin delves further into what happened, how it happened and perhaps even why. After some thought, Colin considers the following;
“The minute you do ‘discipline’ you actually lose the opportunity to learn”
obviously the employee made a mistake, and many companies would go down the disciplinary route. However, Colin wants to know
What benefit does it give the employee who made the mistake? People make mistakes. What benefit does it give you, the employer? Are you looking to make an example of the employee? What benefit does it give your other employees; are they going to realistically benefit from the disciplinary action against the individual who made the mistake?
After exploring these questions with the client, Colin understands that you need to have rules and strict policies regarding disciplinary action within the workplace. But Colin doesn’t believe people will always look at a situation and use that negative example to further reinforce compliance with workplace rules and guidelines.
Colin also suggests that this negatively impact your workplace and employee compliance further by doing so. Employees may feel less inclined to report accidents, mistakes or dangers for fear of disciplinary action against them should they be blamed.
Let us challenge this norm and what was going on in this situation with Colin's client. Perhaps the planning of this particular job was not good enough? Using a larger piece of machinery to transport the (comparatively) smaller barrel was the wrong thing to do. This could be argued as the root cause of the mistake. Further exploring the incident itself, what was around the van to stop anything coming into contact with it? Could the van have been parked elsewhere or restrictions on how close machinery could be operated to the van? The employee operating the machinery was actively trying to help the maintenance task and speed up the completion of the job. He was actually encouraged by the maintenance team to get the oil, as they were busy. Perhaps changing this scenario could have prevented the mistake?
Now if this mistake had never occurred and the job was completed without issue, we would never be looking at all of these potential hazards and areas of improvement.
Colin argues it was better to have this minor incident, without injury or major accidents, as we now have a much better insight on how to improve health and safety within the business and prevent a much worse mistake or accident occurring. So why would you punish, rather than learn in this scenario?
It was a positive failure.
ABOUT THE HOST Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Colin is in conversation with Health and Safety specialist, Ian Manners, of DAC Beachcroft, a lawyer who has been hailed by Legal 500 as the Next Generation Health & Safety Lawyer in the South West in both the 2017 and 2018 editions.
In the second part of Colin’s interview with Ian, the discussion turns to Ian’s ingenious method of risk assessment, the effect of culture upon health and safety, and the value of internal networking.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Mock trials, devised by Ian, have driven engagement within his team, and have allowed for a different perspective on risk assessment. Engaging with people is far more effective in driving change than simply ordering change. Wellbeing is entwined and influenced by culture. Effecting positive culture will be the main driving force in influencing positive health and safety practice in the workplace. Internally networking is invaluable. By connecting and collaborating with the many units within a company can help everyone within to better understand the capabilities of the place they work for.
BEST MOMENTS
‘How am I going to get the jury to get this?’
‘People are the key’
‘We don’t really have any hard and fast rules’
‘I’m not a fan of sharing for sharing’s sake'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health And Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/training-competency-creating-effective-plan-process/id1467771449?i=1000452692837
DAC Beachcroft - https://www.dacbeachcroft.com/en/gb/people/ian-manners/
imanners@dacbeechcroft.com
Ian Manners LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/irmanners/?originalSubdomain=uk
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
“Around a third of all accidents in the workplace are a result of poor manual handling.”
In todays episode Colin briefly covers the sort of things you want to challenge when considering any manual handling around the workplace. Whether it is yourself, an employee or anybody else within your business. Get a provider who works with Make sure they focus on the health affects of poor manual handling
Get a good practical element. Ensure they demonstrate good manual handling techniques
“What we are trying to do… is to get people to change their behaviour a bit… to then change the way they work/ behave in the workplace”
ABOUT THE HOST Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Colin is in conversation with Health and Safety specialist, Ian Manners, of DAC Beachcroft, a lawyer who has been hailed by Legal 500 as the Next Generation Health & Safety Lawyer in the South West in both the 2017 and 2018 editions.
In the first part of their fascinating conversation, Ian discusses the ways to drive culture change in business, the responsibilities of directors when it comes to health and safety, the evolution of risk assessment, and the importance of due diligence.
KEY TAKEAWAYS A flexible working environment goes a long way in creating a positive culture in the workplace. Allowing staff to feel a sense of autonomy will create a greater level of engagement. Directors of companies can be held accountable for serious incidents, especially if they prove fatal, and if they have been seen to have acted recklessly in terms of health and safety. Risk assessment is a concept that’s been around a long time, but businesses still get it wrong so often, mainly when the process does not evolve with the company and proves ineffective when applied. Health and safety should be of paramount importance when performing due diligence assessment before a company acquisition. Depending on the response, you may take the view that the company has a safety problem, which may mean litigation.
BEST MOMENTS
‘If someone wants to go for a run and switch up their afternoon, then so be it’
‘You’ve got to spend more time on your business than in your business’
‘Each organisation has to go through that process for itself’
‘People fear million-pound fines more than they used to'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health And Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/training-competency-creating-effective-plan-process/id1467771449?i=1000452692837
DAC Beachcroft - https://www.dacbeachcroft.com/en/gb/people/ian-manners/
imanners@dacbeechcroft.com
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Colin talks today about ‘ditching the numbers’. Colin finds that a lot of businesses when doing risk assessments, get very ‘hung-up’ on the numbers; the likely hood, the severity, the frequency and multiplying them all together.
Sometimes, people will manipulate the numbers to fit; they do a risk assessment, rather than assessing the risk. Don’t rely on these numbers and be ignorant of the dangers; actively avoid the mentality of ‘it won’t happen to me’.
Colin says park those numbers, sit down with your team and get into a discussion about what can happen, how and what can we do to minimise the effect if something goes awry.
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast
HSE.gov.uk
ABOUTTHE HOST
Colin’sBiography
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential
Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry.
Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes
that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving
many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer.
He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In the second part of Colin’s fascinating discussion with Chris Partridge, the Director of Risk Management for Ferroglobe, Chris talks about the power of pre-start meetings, post-shift meetings, how Ferroglobe goes about dealing with hazardous safety situations, good communication and building societies within companies.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Dealing with molten metal at very high temperatures is highly dangerous. Substances such as water can easily trigger violent reactions. All kinds of things must be considered, such as the structure of the room. If any leaks occur, it can cause devastation.
Pre-shift and post-shift meetings have become an essential part of operations. These allow the changing shifts of workers to discuss any issues that may be arising.
Ethics, compliance and employee wellbeing have formed the basis for Ferroglobe’s Code Of Conduct, which allows all employees to follow a single set of guidelines.
Mental health awareness is now a large part of operations. Ferroglobe have invested in counselling and care for its workforce.
BEST MOMENTS
‘Removing the element of human error, is always going to be the safest way of doing things’
’The communication aspect between employees is what leads us to be quite successful’
‘You save money at the back end by reducing risk’
‘Many businesses see health and safety as a cost, rather than as an investment’
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health And Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/training-competency-creating-effective-plan-process/id1467771449?i=1000452692837
Chris Partridge LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-partridge-0a84576/?originalSubdomain=uk
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
‘We are only human, people do make mistakes’
In this episode Colin is with a live audience at the Institute of Quarrying Safety Day, speaking about being proactive and why business owners and managers need to plan to allow people to make mistakes in a way that doesn’t end up with them being seriously injured or killed.
When business owners and managers investigate incidents blame must be put aside to ask ‘how’ as this enables an in-depth review of processes and systems.
Creating an environment with openness and transparency is key to being able to create the right processes and controls, listen in now to find out how.
KEY TAKEAWAYS People do make mistakes so as business owners and managers we need to plan in our businesses to allow people to make mistakes in a way that doesn’t end up with them being seriously injured or killed Thinking that there is a progression through from unsafe acts and behaviours to major injuries and fatal incidents is not reflective of what really happens in the work environment.
Near misses If you don’t create an environment where there is openness and trust people are not going to talk about the near misses and what is actually happening on a day to day basis. Having a good near-miss reporting process is important but it will not necessarily stop a serious or fatal incident occurring. It’s vital to challenge the way the job is being done, ask your staff; What control have you got in place to stop you getting injured or killed? Is that enough?
Blaming the individual Rules are created, something goes wrong and the company blames the individual for not following the rules. Does this mean it is only bad people who have accidents at work? If you only blame the worker you will never make things any better. You need to look deeply at the activities in your business and the way you are controlling them. Rules are a great starting point to challenge the activities that are being undertaken Is there the right supervision? Is the attitude of the individual right? Are there the right control measures in place?
When things go wrong Blame must be put aside and questions asked about ‘how did this happen?’ This will open the situation up and enable a more in-depth look at the processes, company systems and controls. If you can spend time talking honestly with the people who are in the environment then you can put in more effective control measures. Don’t apportion blame if something goes wrong the reason it’s gone wrong is either;
the company hasn’t put the right person on the job or the right controls in place. We don’t have bad workers; accidents happen because the controls in place are not effective.
BEST MOMENTS
‘If you are punished because you got things wrong then you’ve missed an opportunity to make things better’
‘Don’t have an environment where people are afraid to come forward if something is wrong, embrace it
‘I didn’t foster an environment where people could talk to me because I was stuck in an office’
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast
HSE.gov.uk
ABOUTTHE HOST
Colin’sBiography
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential
Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry.
Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes
that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving
many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer.
He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In this special two-part interview, Colin talks to Chris Partridge, the Director Of Risk Management for Ferroglobe, about the ways in which he handles employee induction, the importance of culture, setting effective objectives, and how Ferroglobe goes about obtaining information from their employees.
It’s a fascinating, insightful conversation, so join it now!
KEY TAKEAWAYS Ferroglobe’s silicon products are used in a number of applications, such as construction, face-cream, cosmetics, car parts and home appliances.
If you want to manage risk effectively, you need to take care of things at source. This is true for health and safety, and for the quality of the product.
Risk has an upside. To make money, to have success, you have to take risks. But it’s the way in which we take these risks that matter.
Being an international company, Ferroglobe are often faced with the challenges and benefits of working within different cultures. But these are generally easily overcome.
Chris uses data as much as possible in terms of studying health and safety. What were the drivers in terms of the event’s genesis? How could it have been prevented?
Smaller accidents are often the result of a poorly designed or equipped working environment. If employees feel that they are being mistreated, they can often be less careful.
BEST MOMENTS
‘It’s one of the best windows into any business’
‘Everything has a financial consequence’
‘If you analyse properly, then you have a far better change of succeeding’
‘Most businesses don’t know where to find the data’
‘It’s about engagement'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health And Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/training-competency-creating-effective-plan-process/id1467771449?i=1000452692837
Chris Partridge LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-partridge-0a84576/?originalSubdomain=uk
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
It's about treating working at height seriously not giving it a cursory nod’
Every year 4, 000 people suffer serious injury working at height, people often only think working at height is about working on scaffolding and cherry pickers but statistics show that the majority of incidents occur when people are working at a height below 2 metres – the height of a table. In this episode, Colin shares the height hierarchy along with the measures that should be in place whatever the height. Listen in to hear the practical steps and actions you should be taking every time for work at height.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Hierarchy of working at height Can you avoid it? If you have to work at height what can you do to prevent a fall? What can you do to reduce the consequences of a fall? Make sure the people working at height have the right mindset and the work has been risk assessed. If you are working at height make sure the work is properly planned and organised. You need to consider working at height as part of the overall risk for a job. Ensure all equipment is properly maintained and checked. A ladder can be the best solution especially if the job is very short in duration but if the job requires work over a longer period other options should be considered. The use of ladders must be effectively controlled and locking them up is a good way to ensure use is risk assessed and properly planned every time. The analysis shows that table height is the most common height at which incidents occur because people don’t think carefully or treat working at this height seriously. Have a toolbox talk before someone goes to out to do the work and make use of the height hierarchy to make sure work is planned and risk assessed appropriately.
BEST MOMENTS
‘Working at height isn’t going right up into the sky’
‘Make sure areas with more risk are properly controlled’
‘Often working at height is only part of the job, individuals may be working with electricity or near moving equipment’
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast
HSE.gov.uk
ABOUTTHE HOST
Colin’sBiography
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential
Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry.
Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes
that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving
many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer.
He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
‘Companies spend a lot of money on training but is it the right training?’
In this podcast, Colin explores training and competence.
He discusses how to undertake an effective skills gap analysis for your company and what elements are required to ensure effective training and understanding.
This podcast is invaluable for those who want to create a good plan and have a good process in place to support training and competency at all levels, listen in now.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Identifying the training needs of individuals is a fundamental of good management and good health and safety. How well do you understand the skills required for a particular job role? Undertake an audit of the skills required for each role within the company and the skills of the individuals in the role. You will achieve a gap analysis clearly indicating the training required This does not have to be a course it could be shadowing a colleague in a similar role. Sometimes it can be very positive to get people in from outside to deliver training, they often bring a new and different perspective whilst in house trainers bring knowledge and insight that is company-specific. There is a place for effective training to feature both types - external and in house. If you are putting together a program of training it's important there are elements providing individuals with the opportunity to use new knowledge and understanding in the workplace and share the positive outcomes.
BEST MOMENTS
‘Risk assessment training that begins in the classroom and then provides the opportunity to continue in the workplace is invaluable and provides embedded learning for the individual’
‘It's about engagement’
‘Being able to develop individuals through specific elements and levels is vital’
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry.
Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer.
He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Everyone has their own perception of things and within a business, from the top of the business, things trickle down and often the message can be perceived in the wrong way.
Colin explains in this episode how you can prevent information being taken and passed on in the wrong way within a business. This is to ensure that the message that comes right from the top of the business is clearly communicated all the way down to the bottom of the ladder.
ABOUT HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry.
Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, -an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought after health and safety speaker and trainer.
He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In today's short-but-sweet episode, Colin checks-in to discuss reliability.
“Look at reliability, rather than safety”
Look at your business; challenge and test all aspects, regardless of how well or how bad you may be performing in all areas. Find the weak areas. Colin theorises it is common that problem area’s are also hotspots for failings in health and safety
“Don’t treat things in isolation; Bring the whole lot together & bring your business forward”
ABOUT HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry.
Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, -an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought after health and safety speaker and trainer.
He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
It’s mostly the teeny-tiniest stuff around us we don’t really give importance and also at times, it’s these stuff that pose much threat and hazard… For example, viruses, bacteria, and even insects can be deadly.
In construction, it’s the accumulation of dust in the workplace that needs attention. This can cause respiratory diseases to those who are involved. As much as possible, we must ensure the health and safety in the workplace. Colin and other influential people in the industry have collaborated and formed Construction Dust Partnership, or CDP, to bring awareness to this prevalent issue. There’s still too much to learn not only for the new ones but also for those who are at the forefront.
Today, Colin and his colleagues discuss more on CDP’s role in the (healthier and safer) future of the construction industry so tune in.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Construction Dust Partnership (CDP) was formed to raise awareness and promote ways of preventing work-related respiratory diseases caused by construction dust. It’s important that people prioritise the health and safety of everyone and start ways on how to maintain them. Start by educating and training them to follow proper measures. CDP bridges the gap and gives clearcut solutions to any technical questions, especially on construction dust. They make sure that all the information are up-to-date and easily accessible.
BEST MOMENTS “The education element is critical not for new people who are just entering our industry, but those who have been around for the long time.” “We need to be solutions-focused as well.” “When you get to the subject matter, when you start explaining to them and you talk to them as human beings, the passion comes across.”
VALUABLE RESOURCES CITB: Construction Industry Training Board - https://www.citb.co.uk Trolex: Industrial & Mining Safety Solutions - https://www.trolex.com Health and Safety Executive – https://www.hse.gov.uk
ABOUT HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry.
Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, -an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought after health and safety speaker and trainer.
He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
‘Make sure the controls are there, you are confident in the person undertaking the work and you monitor what is going on’
In this episode, Colin reviews the importance of a ‘permit to work’ and the responsibility that is undertaken by those who issue them.
Listen in and make sure you understand the process and use ‘permit to work’ effectively on your work site.
KEY TAKEAWAYS For lesser jobs, permission to proceed and an authorisation process can be implemented. For those jobs that require a permit consider when and where the permit is required. When you complete a risk assessment, consider the control measures necessary. You need to look at the risk assessment and the controls identified. These controls then form part of the permit. A permit to work is based on someone going to the site and checking that the controls are in place, once they are confident the controls are in place they are permitting the work taking place. The person raising a permit is undertaking a high level of responsibility. A permit to work doesn’t replace a risk assessment it supports the process. You are issuing the permit to someone else so you must have confidence in them and their ability to carry out the work. Never treat a permit to work as a form-filling exercise treat it is a fundamental.
BEST MOMENTS
‘The person raising a permit is undertaking a high level of responsibility so don’t give your signature away’
‘If that person leaves the site the permit should be viewed as no longer valid because they are the individual who is undertaking the responsibility of carrying out the controls’
‘You have determined it’s an activity where someone could get hurt or seriously injured’
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry.
Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer.
He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In todays episode, Colin wants to talk about rules; How do you introduce rules into the workplace?
A lot of businesses have ‘the rules’, often referred to as ‘cardinal’, ‘golden’ or ‘workplace’ rules. There is some legislation that says you have to have these rules in place. Colin doesn’t disagree with these, but challenges you how you think about these rules specifically
“because how a lot of people perceive the rules are ‘the rules are there and if somebody breaks these rules; we are going to discipline them”
‘If somebody goes against the rules, action should be taken’ is the default response. Colin wonders if the implication of ‘rules are there to penalise wrong doing’ dissuades change and deters conversation about variation or evolution of the rules currently in your workplace.
Colin discusses the origin of these ‘cardinal’ rules, and their roots in safety and prevention of serious injury of death. He points out that these rules will most definitely highlight the high risk and dangerous areas of the Jobsite and workplace, and you need to pay attention to this.
“whenever a job is being undertaken (is formed around one of these rules)… then what we are going to do is we are going to make sure we have a real high level of protection for this job”
But he implores you to take a closer look and scrutinise the job, the worker and the practices to make sure its workable and the rules work.
“Don’t turn these golden rules into something that you are going to punish people with. Actually turn these ‘golden’ rules, these ‘cardinal’ rules into something we are going to really challenge the way we do the job… That way, then its not gonna be a job where you can lose your job if you don’t follow it; We are looking at it ‘woah this is a job where you could lose your life’ and we are not prepared to let that happen.”
How can we do the jobs that are affected by these rules better & better & better?
ABOUT HOST Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry.
Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, -an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought after health and safety speaker and trainer.
He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Colin has been all over the place lately. He’s been traveling, working, and talking to some companies around the UK. He also learned a lot from their stories. In fact, one concept he learned from one company, which was operating 24/7 with 4 shifts in one day, was The Wall Of Opportunity.
So, what is The Wall of Opportunity and how can it help you improve your company?
The company was having a hard time managing operations and the HR, so their solution was to put up ‘the wall’ to gather and brainstorm easier. It was a brilliant idea to get everyone involved, but Colin thinks it can be improved more. In this episode of the Interesting Health & Safety Podcast, Colin shares how placing systems inside your business can change how we deal with business problems like this. Listen in to know more.
KEY TAKEAWAYS After been talking to the senior management of the company, it came to Colin’s understanding that the company tried to cater to internal complaints and feedback by putting up a wall where every individual are allowed to post. But they got surprised and overwhelmend when they received 300+ messages. Colin suggests categorisation and prioritisation. It would be such a waste if the company ignore such insights. Know what you can handle at a certain time frame. No one’s expecting you to solve 300 problems in a week. Most importantly, track progress and reavaluate.
BEST MOMENTS “What is important is you do acknowledge a process, acknowledge a system, when things of how things get raised and when things get put into the business.”
ABOUT HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry.
Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, -an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought after health and safety speaker and trainer.
He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In this episode, Colin discusses the weekends! We all love the end of the week, but Health& Safety is 24/7. Colin asks you to challenge your practices and employees to make sure standards on the weekend don't slip and are equal to the rest of the working week.
Spend time this weekend going out into the workplace and finding employees. Have a chat about what they're doing that day; What's going on and what jobs are on their agenda? Discuss considerations, risks & controls they are aware of and how well has the business helped prepare for these?
Colin also implores you to relay all feedback to him through comments, subscriptions and his Linkedin group!
ABOUTTHE HOST Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential
Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry.
Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes
That are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving
many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer.
He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
How do you choose the right contractor for you?
Today on the Intereting Health & Safety Podcast, Colin gives you pieces of advice on how to select and induct your contractor. There might be a big pool of available contractors out there, but it’d be best that you and he understand what you both need. you can’t just pinpoint someone and give him the job as there will be risks for his health and safety, not just for your business. The first steps are very important so Colin decided to concise everything you need to know in this episode. Start listening in.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Ask your prospect straightforward questions. Do they have insurance? Do they have access to health and safety advice? Be clear on what you are expecting them to provide for you, before even starting anything. Upon induction, the contractor must fully know the controls and operations so he’s aware of the risks. If you have a contractor who has a problem with risk assessment, be considerate. Work alongside them and give them time to learn at their own pace.
BEST MOMENTS “The more time you can do on the vetting/selection process, the better the relationship you’re gonna build with the contractor.” “Keep it sharp; keep it focused. Get in the key points over to the contractor.” “If you build fantastic relationships with your contractors, then you’re gonna be very successful as a business.”
ABOUT HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into the industry.
Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, -an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought after health and safety speaker and trainer.
He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In this podcast Colin completes his interview with Philip Tracey from Plexus Law, they discuss the recent changes in legislation and guidelines concerning individual prosecutions.
Philip shares some key advice about what to do immediately after an event and the possible longer-term impact for individuals in a company where an accident has happened.
This episode also covers how companies can be more proactive in their health and safety, listen in to hear more.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
What should a business do immediately after an event?
Appoint one person in the business as contact and to manage the incident.
Appoint advisors – lawyers, health and safety, insurers
Do not jump to conclusions, or opinions about what happened
The regulator and I are polar opposites - in a situation, they are prosecuting and I am defending.
There are potentially 3 court processes and we seek to manage them all;
The inquest – we can have an impact on how the evidence is presented, criminal prosecution as a result of the inquest and a civil claim from the family.
The evidence we gather at the outset is of benefit to each of the 3 processes.
Are there more individual prosecutions?
The changes in legislation were aimed at trying to identify the ‘controlling mind’ in bigger organisations but it remains easier to do this in a smaller organisation
In the last few years, I have dealt with individual prosecutions of experienced individuals who never expected to be facing prosecution.
How do we ensure we are meeting the guidelines?
People should be entitled to go to work and be healthy and safe.
On too frequent a basis reports are commissioned and then the advice is not followed. This can leave a manager open to prosecution if they have not acted on the recommended action.
It’s the difference in spending a smaller amount upfront compared to a much larger amount following an event.
There is now more understanding and awareness of health and safety.
BEST MOMENTS
‘If you’ve gone to the trouble of getting the report, read it and act on the recommendations’
We run continuous training and prepare staff to know how to manage potentially emotional situations
You’ve usually been through a life-changing event and shouldn’t be afraid of seeking additional support in the form of counselling
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast
Philip.tracey@plexuslaw.co.uk
ABOUTTHE HOST
Colin’sBiography
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential
Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry.
Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes
That are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving
many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer.
He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Risk assessment is what good health & safety is all about
It Doesn’t matter what level you work at in a business; you should stay involved in a risk assessment process…
But what does a good one look like?
KEY TAKEAWAYS Who is involved; If they are written by management in an office then you are missing out on a fantastic opportunity to do it better. Go out, speak to the supervisors and employees and find out who and how much they are involved in the process! How comfortable are they with the processes? Do they feel the controls in place are effective? Is there anything we can do to improve them? Spend some time involving other members of your staff in the risk assessment process and things are going to improve for you Get rid of annual review mentality; If you do all your risk assessments in a day, you will give yourself mental fatigue. Spread the load and build in a review of your risk assessment as a regular practice every single week; before jobs are going to happen to see how you will control the risks. Split your site into sections; Which one of these jobs relate to which section? Set challenges over the jobs to improve and build on controls in place. Have a look at your risk assessment process; specifically the further controls column. Colin judges how active a business is by the activity in this column. What Colin wants to see is a column that is not Empty implies complicity. If you have no further controls in your risk assessment process, then Colin doesn’t think you are looking at it hard enough and urges you to prove it by testing it! Don’t score it so everything remains in the ‘Green’; if you see a risk assessment where everything is green, then green means ‘Danger’! Colin urges you to question how safe it truly is, if everything is deemed safe. Challenge how you think about the process;Colin see’s lots of people doing the assessments, but not a lot of people actually ‘assessing’ the risks. Risk assessment is fundementally asking the questions ‘Do we need to do this job?’ and ‘How can we do this job better?’. Colin says you will only achieve this by spending time with the people who do the job; these people who do the job every day, every week and every month are the experts on the job, its process and its safety.
ABOUTTHE HOST Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential
Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry.
Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes
That are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving
many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer.
He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
‘You must be very mindful of the human impact in those early days and weeks’
Colin is talking with Philip Tracey, Solicitor Advocate and partner in the firm Plexus legal LLP
He has been practising in the field of health and safety law for more than 25 years and shares invaluable advice about what happens when there is an event or situation that requires his professional involvement.
His role is as a defender for those facing investigation or prosecution by the regulator and the police in relation to fatal accidents and potential personal and corporate manslaughter charges.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
It’s a sad reality of my job that when I turn up when something has gone wrong, sometimes seriously wrong, there is a crisis to be managed and you have to help the client through.
How soon should you be involved?
The earlier we are involved, to assist and manage as the situation evolves the better. You have to be able to control the evidence, the risk with individuals who are in shock is they may say things or leap to conclusions without understanding the possible consequences.
In the early moments, you are effectively trying to buy time so people can have the time to reflect and review documents.
It’s important that any recommendations and conclusions are relevant and specific to what has happened.
Change may be a consequence but the initial reports must always be interim as continuing and further investigation may be required or expert assistance required.
Legal privilege how does it work?
For the purposes of litigation, it’s important that the company gets the protection of legal privilege. Any documents or investigations are carried out or completed in contemplation of potential legal proceedings and therefore any material produced during the investigation does not have to be disclosed outside of the company unless it wishes to do so.
It gives you the comfort and opportunity to carry out a detailed and thorough investigation of the facts, knowing that any report will be a robust document in terms of its conclusions.
Have you seen a difference in the way companies conduct themselves as a result of the recent changes to sentencing guidelines?
Business is aware of the guidelines from the larger companies through to micro organisations.
The primary aim of these guidelines is to send a message to the large organisations but it is the smaller businesses that feel the impact through the level of fines.
The big organisations are usually able to look after themselves and have people in designated roles to deal with crisis situations. It’s the smaller and micro organisations that do not have the capacity to deal with these situations and the potential fines.
Do you work proactively with companies?
There is now a focus on systems and paperwork but this only a part of the requirement for good health and safety. All the relevant sections of a company must understand the impact and how they are interlinked.
It can’t just a paper exercise, there must be an understanding and close liaison between those who are managing the process and those who are implementing it with regular dialogue
The most important thing about a company is the culture.
BEST MOMENTS
‘It's vital that the business is still able to run and have both health and safety’
‘It enables the company to explore things fully without the fear that everything can be disclosed’
I very rarely come across situations where any accidents are the result of cost-cutting or any deliberate behaviour something has gone wrong but it's not intentional by anyone
‘When you are dealing with the regulator they are the ‘police’ in the situation and you should act accordingly’
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast
Philip.tracey@plexuslaw.co.uk
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin’s Biography
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential
Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry.
Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes
That are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving
many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer.
He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
"Ah mate, I just haven't got enough time!"
In today's episode of The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast, Colin emplores you to do as he does and challenge people when they use the excuse of limited time!
Colin says, what is actually being said, is that the task or request you may have (or others have asked of you) is not a high enough priority. This also implies that perhaps it is not worth their (or your) time, which may not be the case!
"Whether you are a supervisor; or a manager; or a director; or an owner; or a CEO; a celebrity? It doesn't matter who you are; we all have the same amount of time"
Colin says maximise what you do with your time, and any new time you get each day. Listen in as he gives a couple of suggestions on how to do this and let Colin know your thoughts and comments!
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin’s Biography
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry.
Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer.
He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
‘People make mistakes all the time sometimes it leads to bad things and sometimes it doesn’t’
People are encouraged to make decisions and nearly all the time, nearly all our employees are good people who want to do a good job for the business but we are all human and mistakes happen, building systems and capacity are key elements and will change your business. In this episode, Colin explains how you can do this effectively using your employees as the problem solvers.
KEY TAKEAWAYS When management look at errors they view them in 2 different ways; Errors that don’t lead to a problem - they might not even be aware of. Errors that lead to an incident or accident - Management view these differently they tend to have perfect hindsight and often the worker is blamed very early on. We encourage our employees to keep things going, to make decisions and sometimes they make wrong decisions. Good safety is not the absence of accidents it’s the ability to have the capacity for people to make mistakes and not get hurt from it. Review the systems and processes, How does your system handle people making poor decisions? Build a system that has the capacity for mistakes. The near-miss and near-miss reporting - In lots of businesses there is complacency about this system. Changing and adding to the question on the report means you can use the system to effectively move your systems forward. Look at your near misses differently, as an opportunity to learn. Talk to your employees find out what changes they would make. Our employees are not the problem they are the solution, the problem solvers. Listening to them will help improvements and create more effective systems.
BEST MOMENTS
‘If we filled our workplaces with robots you would not get those instantaneous improvements’
‘If you can identify what people were doing when things are going well then you can replicate it’
‘People don’t go to work to get hurt but decisions they make can sometimes lead to bad consequences’
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin’s Biography
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry.
Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer.
He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In today’s episode, Colin shares with you insights gleaned from delegates at the British Aggregates Association AGM event he attended! There were speakers from the institute of quarrying, Health & Safety Executive, Energy efficiency processes, Environmental providers and more!
At the event, Colin attended a talk given by Ed-Leicester Tigers player Rory Underwood, who gave a talk on leadership skills, interaction and teamwork. Aside from being star-struck, Colin took away lots of important knowledge but specifically wanted to share the following;
“The difference between ‘focus’ and ‘awareness’. At times where you’re 100% focused, then you’re not really aware of what is going on around you; If you are 100% aware, then you’re not focussing on things that are significant or really important.”
Colin describes how Rory made him realise the necessity of ‘flip-flopping’ between both focus and awareness and the importance of balancing the two.
Rory also spoke quite a bit about how he had previously flown fighter jets. Flying a fighter jet, at speed, low altitude and also around other planes and obstacles must be an intense challenge to juggle focus and awareness; to be focussed on direction and speed, whilst also being aware of what is all around you and the complicated controls and procedures involved with flying a fighter jet!
Colin brings you back to the Event he attended; He recommends attending events like this not only for the speakers and talks, but also for the networking with other individuals in, or related to, your field!
At this years even Colin had a stand and got talking to quite a few delegates. Colin leveraged their opinion and recorded a few clips for you; The podcast listeners!
Colin notes the trend of people all talking about participation; Getting out into the workplace, getting involved and spending time with people; Looking at how jobs are completed. Risk assessments are essential and Colin feels this highlights this point!
RESOURCES
BRITISH AGGREGATES ASSOCIATION The Association for Independent Quarry Operators The Health & Safety Executive
ABOUT HOST
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry.
Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, -an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought after health and safety speaker and trainer.
He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Chocolate biscuits have been around for years, yet throughout the ages they have been repackaged, remarketed, produced & shaped differently to make them more exciting for us. In this episode of The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast, Colin explains how we have been presented an opportunity to make H&S exciting, to get people hyped up that they can attend work knowing they won’t get hurt!
KEY TAKEAWAYS If you want to make H&S exciting in your business, get your staff involved, get them to take ownership of their own wellbeing and safety. Communicate clearly with them that you want their work environment to be safe for them, be open and honest with your workforce. Have simple straight forward rules and procedures for people to follow, don’t make it complicated for them. Help them to help you. Ideally you want people to challenge the procedures to improve on them and do them better! Be creative! Nobody wants to look at the same 15 year old legislation notice board. Replace them annually, keep up to date with modern technology, change up the format of the design, get some colour involved, and make H&S fun & exciting. Be the change you want to see.
BEST MOMENTS
‘Once you decide where you want to be in business, be honest with your employees’
‘The only way you can achieve what you what is by bringing your people with you and bringing their involvement’
‘If procedure is more than a page long, you got it wrong’
‘Keep it simple, keep it straight forward’
‘If you’ve got a business where people want to do things better, then you’ve got a great business’
‘Give your people the ability to think for themselves and make the right calls’
ABOUT HOST
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry.
Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, -an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought after health and safety speaker and trainer.
He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Welcome to the Interesting Health & Safety Podcast! In todays episode, Colin discusses the how you manage risk in your business?
Colin suggests the businesses that are truly successful, are the businesses that understand and control the risks within their businesses and if you can get a great understanding of these two things, you will also be successful! Colin also states that you should leverage the experiences, skills and inside knowledge of your employees when looking at Health and Safety within you business.
Colins Challenge;
"How well do you understand how things are done 'well' in your business? Do you really get what goes on in your business; how people manage their day-to-day activities?"
Colin wants you to have a think about this, spend more time focussing on it and speaking to those who are doing the tasks at hand (looking for the good, learning from it and implementing it)
HOST BIO
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry.
Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, -an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought after health and safety speaker and trainer.
He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In this Safety Short, Colin returns from his holiday in Croatia and reflects on the following;
“How well do you challenge your staff/employees to make sure they take their holiday/paid time off?”
Colin used to run a team of H&S advisors (almost 30 people at one time!) and he describes the all too common excuses “I am too busy too take holiday!”, that people martyr their PTO, breaks and annual leave; thinking it makes them ‘a hero’ because they haven’t taken the break.
If you are not organised enough and do not treat the holiday as something that is really important to you as an individual, Colin argues you are making a bad decision (and then what other bad decisions are you making for the business elsewhere?)
You should challenge this; make sure your employees and staff get a chance to take time away from the business and be able to reflect, to get those batteries full again and be ready and refreshed
“Don’t take ‘being too busy’ as an excuse; It’s not good enough”
HOST BIO
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into Industry.
Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, -an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought after health and safety speaker and trainer.
He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In this episode of The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast, Colin covers a subject which doesn’t usually come to mind when performing health and safety procedures, and that is Driving At Work. Colin explains how driving can be one of the most hazardous activities an employee can undertake and shares the necessary checks and measures required for your company to be in compliance with the law.
KEY TAKEAWAYS The first step is to check driving at work is included in your company’s policies and procedures. The 5 key questions you should ask yourself: Does your health & safety statement cover road safety? Is there a top-level commitment to work-related road safety? Do you have adequate safety systems to allow you to manage work-related road safety effectively? Do you monitor performance to ensure your policy is effective? Have you undertaken a risk assessment? Ensure your drivers are competent and sufficient to drive safely, perform health assessments and check their driving records, even if they are using their personal car for work-related activity. Checks to ensure all company vehicles are fit for use, are they being properly maintained? Do they have valid MOTs? Lorries should be checked every 6-8 weeks minimum. Consider the route your drivers need to take. If they covering long distances, limiting driving hours and providing a hotel room for the night is a sure safe way to prevent falling asleep at the wheel. Consider providing additional training for the drivers who cover the most mileage. Have a procedure in place in case of emergencies, make sure the staff know what to do in case the vehicles break down or have an accident.
BEST MOMENTS
‘Report any vehicle defects and don’t drive defective vehicles, have the confidence to say no’
‘Driving at work is an important part of running business, so let’s make sure we get good systems in place’
‘It’s estimated that up to a third of all traffic accidents involve somebody who is at work at the time’
‘Some prescription drugs can have an adverse effect on people’s ability to drive’
‘My advice is switch phones off when you’re driving’
HOST BIO
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into Industry.
Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, -an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought after health and safety speaker and trainer.
He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In this episode of The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast, Colin explains the processes and steps you should take to assess the chemicals and substances used by employees in the work place following the COSHH legal guidelines. Just because a substance can affect people’s health, this does not mean they cannot but used. We must simply control them to minimise health risks to workers, in turn minimising the high costs of prosecutions, civil action & loss of earnings derived from ill health.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Hazardous substances must first be deemed necessary and that there are no safer alternatives. It is vital that the employees are protected from the effects of these substances. Begin by having a look around the business to identify the substances used in the business and create a list to determine what is being used. Colin shares how you can quickly attain the required safety data sheets required by COSHH law. How can these substances harm me? What happens if I ingest it? What happens if I get it on my skin? What happens if the substance is spilt or catches fire? This is all key information required to control substances and ensure workers have the correct PPE and training to handle and the substances safely and effectively. You need to check to ensure the control measures in place are effective. Colin recommends carrying out a health surveillance on employees is the best way to identify if any employees have any ongoing health issues which could be affected by the hazardous substances. Consider putting an emergency procedure in place in case of a severe spillage or the worst case scenario was to occur. Your health and safety professional could help create a simple and straight forward plan to protect the employee’s health.
Best Moments
‘You need to go to your supplier and ask for the Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)’
‘Check to see if people have dermatitis, check to see if people’s lung function has been reduced’
‘If you’ve got a good understanding of the significant substances in the workplace, good control measures then you’re going to be a good place’
‘Identify the substances, have a good look around, get rid of what you don’t need’
‘Have a good process for dealing with spillages, for dealing with emergencies if these substances do get released’
Host Bio:
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry.
Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, -an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought after health and safety speaker and trainer.
He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Welcome to the next episode of The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast! In today’s episode, your host Colin Nottage discusses how it’s great when Health & Safety is going right in your business. However, it is easy to become complacent and relaxed and you may be letting your business down.
Colin argues this is when you should challenge things when they are going well. This is when you should take the time to look more closely at how your employees are operating to make sure you are keeping them accountable, but also that they are not letting you down by risking their health or others wellbeing.
Colin recalls anecdotal evidence from his time at an industrial plant in Wales to drive this point home, and encourages you to take the burden away from employees reporting dangers to yourself and ask your business and team
“How do you ‘do’ your job?”
and then listen to the answers. You may confirm that everything is as it should be, above board and compliant (which is great!). However, you may also find there are previously missed hazards or dangers that your employees are just ‘coping’ with. Colin says you need to find these and challenge yourself to stop them happening
“It gives you a fantastic opportunity … to just challenge it… If the downside is you discover what one of these people does, then it gives you an opportunity to stop it happening. You don’t want to be looking at it after…Hindsight is 20:20, actually have that foresight” -Colin Nottage
ABOUT HOST Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry.
Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, -an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought after health and safety speaker and trainer.
He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In todays episode, Colin discusses Shit Jobs. Colin asks if you can really say that you are doing everything you can, to improve Health and Safety in the work place?
If you can say yes to this, he congratulates you! But the reason he asks is, commonly people will do a great job most of the time.. but occasionally let it slide.
How often do you think about your colleagues, and what they have to do on a daily/weekly basis? How about how they do the jobs?
Do you have any Shit Jobs on-site that you are relieved you personally don’t have to complete?
Listen in to Colin and have a think about your Shit Jobs but more importantly, what makes them a Shit Job? And is this unsafe and/or unhealthy?
“It was shit and, in hindsight, it was wrong” -Colin Nottage
Colin implores you to have a sitdown with colleagues and employees and discuss who has the worst job? What are the Shit jobs?
What can you do, as a business, to change this? How can you make this nicer? Better? and safer?
“A shit job today could be an ‘oh shit’ moment tomorrow” -Colin Nottage
ABOUT HOST Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry.
Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, -an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought after health and safety speaker and trainer.
He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
"If you don't know what you're doing; How do you know if you're going to do it right?"
In this short-sweet episode of The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast, Colin asks "How well do you plan for Health & Safety?"
He raises some important questions to help you think safe and bring Health & Safety to the forefront of your business. Remember if you need any help with setting challenging proactive objectives, or have any other questions, be sure to contact Colin Nottage!
ABOUT HOST Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry.
Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, -an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought after health and safety speaker and trainer.
He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Communication is a two-way thing. This is what you have to take note always when dealing with the internal and external affairs of your business.
In this episode of the Interesting Health & Safety Podcast, Colin interviews Jason Duff, Founder of Keeping HR Simple to highlight how important communication is inside businesses. NLP, also known as Neuro-linguistic programming, might help you improve the dynamics and setup of your working environment for the better. It helps you understand how people think and how you can respond to through actions. Also, when there is proper communication, development, and respect of values and beliefs, the retention of employees wouldn't be hard to achieve.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Business owners tend to burnout from dealing with a lot of responsibilities and challenges. NLP can help reduce and prevent this from happening. It creates a headspace where you can think more clearly to put the best interest first. NLP can help you understand how your brain works and how it develops the perception of the world. People’s perception of how they do things might be different from the objectives of the business. Effective communication is the key. When we get lazy with how we communicate, we get poor responses. Empathy is one of the best ability to have to achieve great communication. Put aside your opinions first, so you can listen and understand what the other party is saying. Positive communication is one of the keys in being successful in business. Convey every message in a positive motivational manner. This invites a working environment that’s healthy and encouraging.
BEST MOMENTS “NLP is a toolkit to help you grow yourself.” “HOW is much a better question than WHY.” “Your communication needs to be rich. You need good quality content to get a good response.” “Being a great communicator is chameleon-like – being able to adapt.” “Rather than using the communication of describing what you don’t want, use the communication to describe what you do want.”
VALUABLE RESOURCES Keeping HR Simple
ABOUT GUEST
Jason Duff is the Founder and Director of Keeping HR Simple, which helps ang gives informative solutions for businesses to improve their HR recruitment and retainment. Jason’s LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-duff-18a53718/ Jason’s Twitter - https://twitter.com/hr_jason
ABOUT HOST
Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry.
Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, -an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought after health and safety speaker and trainer.
He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In todays episode of The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast, Colin discusses how this time of year is fantastic for motivating yourself to ‘sort stuff out’, clear out clutter and the therapeutic nature of doing so for your business!
Colin shares a few simple ideas to help you ‘sort it out’
KEY TAKEAWAYS Overheads; What are you paying out and when did you last get a quote? (did you get a discount or compare?) How Often are your extinguishers checked & equipment PAT tested? This swings both ways, not enough or too often. There is not definitive answer as to when and how frequent, but Colin says therein lies the simple and sane ‘sensible’ answer. Health & Safety Policy and Procedures: How long are they? Are they relevant? This can be telling of not only yourselves as a business but also the people who wrote these documents(were it not yourself). Most Importantly, Look at your PEOPLE: What are their competencies? When were they last given any health and safety training? When were they last challenged to improve their and your place of work?
It's about YOU setting the standards
ABOUT HOST Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry.
Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, -an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought after health and safety speaker and trainer.
He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
One Small Step In The Right Direction
Want to change your life for the better? Feeling fed up, tired and out of shape? In this episode of The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast, Colin shares how he worked his way out of his lowest point in life and gives key pointers on how you can also work to change and improve your lifestyle by making simple changes to daily routine. Going from 19st 3lbs, drinking heavily and eating a lot of junk food, Colin now lives each day in the habit of working out daily, eating healthy and is over a stone lighter.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Realisation. You need to wake up and realise that the way are you are living your lifestyle is not healthy for you and you need to say to yourself, this needs to stop. When it comes to changing to a healthier lifestyle, this doesn’t mean you need to stop seeing your friends or completely stop eating unhealthy food, you should still treat yourself in moderation and you shouldn’t beat yourself up about it. Put systems in place to make the small changes to your diet, such as planning your meals for the week, doing the weekly shop on one day and sticking to a set menu will help you to get into the routine of eating healthier food. Exercise. You may not be the type to go to a local gym or join a sports team, but that shouldn’t stop you from caring about your health. Colin lays out his simple, yet super effective morning routine which you can do absolutely anywhere, even in the comfort of your own home.
BEST MOMENTS “We’ve got to change things” “Let’s stop that, let’s put a plan together, let’s cook for the week, buy the ingredients”
“Only buy 2 things from a petrol station. Water and apples.”
“In the morning, I’ll do 100 press ups, 100 sit ups and 100 squats.”
“I felt pretty good because I had just done something just a little bit differently”
“We’re all starting to get excited and build things in the right direction”
“Get your own head right, get your own personal value correct”
“Spend quality time with your family, with yourself and with your business”
HOST BIO:
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry.
Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, -an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought after health and safety speaker and trainer.
He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Colin’s back with a brand new episode of The Interesting Health & Safety podcast; this week we explore how we can apply the same strategies and tactics which make sports teams so successful to your own business. Colin describes how small improvements in your workforce’s traits could take your company’s health and safety to the next level.
Key Takeaways: GOOD WORK ETHIC & TEAM SPIRIT. Simple changes such as investing in a good, clean environment will ensure employees will respect and take pride in their work. Encourage staff by rewarding good practice, tell people when they have done well. These are sure ways to improve productivity.
TRAINING & COMMUNICATION. It is vital that the people you have to get the right skills and experience to do the job to a high standard. Invest your time by communicating with staff to ensure training is being followed. Use high achieving key players as an example for other staff to follow.
GOOD PLANNING & CONTINUAL IMPROVEMENT. A winning business requires good planning and management to succeed. Colin explains how leaders should set the bar high for the other employees through leading by example. Establish an environment which has great morale where people are continually looking out for each other
CLEAR STRATEGY. Does your company have clear strategies for responding to a crisis? Colin explains the importance of running drills to ensure your systems work and everybody is following them. Get the workforce involved, encourage them to take ownership of health and safety to protect themselves and their employees.
Best Moments
“To be proud of your workplace people need to respect it” “Don’t compromise yourself, aim high. “The more you practice, the luckier you get” “Continually strive to improve the way you that do the jobs that involve the most risk in business” “You may end up winning your own World Cup”
ABOUT HOST: Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry.
Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, -an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought after health and safety speaker and trainer.
He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
“It’s about sharing success and good messages; It’s not always just about saying that’s ‘wrong’ “
Welcome back to the Interesting Health & Safety Podcast! In today’s Safety Short, Colin and Chris speak about Occupational Lung Disease awareness in construction!
HSE uses focus periods to draw attention to certain high-risk areas! This year, between the 17th of June and the 12th of July they are focusing on lung disease; specifically, Asbestos & silica (and other dust) under the “go home healthy” initiative!
Find out more and show support by exploring the hash tags #Dustbuster #workright
KEY TAKEAWAYS
When dealing with lung risk, there are three key messages; Know the risk
Plan your work properly; take account of the risks Use the right controls whilst doing the work
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast
ABOUTTHE HOST Colin’sBiography
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into the industry.
Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes, that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses. Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer.
He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Fire risk assessment not only requires that you check what’s inside your premises but also outside it. Sometimes, even though we’ve carefully planned everything, it’s others’ doings that can derail it all.
So, in today’s episode of The Interesting Health and Safety Podcast, Colin urges you to observe what’s around you. Who works around the site? Will the activities be a threat to your business and workers’ safety? What are their precautionary plans? It’s important to review your fire risk assessment now reducing the risk and ensuring the safety of the people. Start tuning in to know more.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Colin recalls the fire incident that happened in an illegal vodka distillery last 2011. According to the investigation, the explosion might have been caused by a lit cigarette. The said explosion killed five people and had left a few of the workers injured. It’s important that you are well-informed about the activities that happen in your facility. Such illegal activities might not only hurt your business but also your workers. Set up a system wherein you can oversee every operation and every process inside your industrial plant. Evacuation plans should also be in place just in cases of emergencies. Review your fire risk assessment immediately. If you haven’t had one, then speak to a fire safety specialist about what things to do.
Get your electric equipment inspected regularly. Conduct fire drills. Make sure everyone, from manager to workers, know the emergency procedures. Install smoke detectors, fire alarms, fire extinguishers, and escape route plans.
BEST MOMENTS “The tragedy didn’t just affect the families of those injured and killed, but also those of the businesses working near the facility of the explosion.” “Wherever you work, it’s good to talk to your neighbours. Be comfortable about how their activities could affect you.”
VALUABLE RESOURCES Boston explosion: five dead in huge fireball during ‘illegal vodka brewing operation’ | The Telegraph
ABOUT THE HOST
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into the industry.
Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes.
That are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and supports H& S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer.
He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk Management, an engineering degree, and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In this Safety Short, Chris Lucas from the Health & Safety Executive explains some of the issues and failings inspectors regularly find when they go to a site.
He provides valuable information about the expected standards for asbestos and dust.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Asbestos
Refurbishment Survey
There should be a refurbishment survey and this information should have been supplied to the principal contractor.
The client has a duty to provide the survey and understand the potential challenges for the building.
Training
Trades that will potentially encounter asbestos must be correctly trained
Visit HSE.gov.uk for further information and training schedules.
Dust
Extraction
People are familiar with water suppression but are less familiar with dust extraction and the standards for equipment. Look for an ‘M’ or ‘H’ classification sticker
The HSE guide CIS69 provides details.
Masks
People either don’t have the right level of mask, FFP3 is required for dust, or they have the right type of mask and it’s not used, maintained or stored in the correct way
BEST MOMENTS
‘There’s a lot of things that can and do go wrong with masks’
‘They are an important control if used correctly’
‘It’s a trade-off between one and another’
‘It's only once the right information is provided that an accurate price can be calculated’
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast
ABOUTTHE HOST
Colin’sBiography
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential
Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry.
Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes
That are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving
many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer.
He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
How HOW is a better word than WHY
Rather than ask “WHY is a job being done”; ask “HOW is a job being done” and see what kind of results you get. –Colin Nottage
In today’s episode, Colin puts it to you that repeatedly asking is not always the best solution. He even likens it to how toddlers berate their parents, and you can imagine the outcome of that scenario not achieving a helpful or informative response! Colin has been trying to flip it around and, instead, asking 'How?' in place of 'Why?'
KEY TAKEAWAYS For years colin has been a taught and practiced the 5 ‘whys’. But what is the 5 ‘Whys’?
5 Whys is an iterative interrogative technique used to explore the cause-and-effect relationships underlying a particular problem. The primary goal of the technique is to determine the root cause of a defect or problem by repeating the question "Why?". Each answer forms the basis of the next question. The end goal is to define a root cause analysis of an event, problem or outcome.
At its base, asking ‘How’ in place of ‘Why’ is less confrontational. Why is perhaps too focused. How gives a bigger picture.
‘Why’ is pointing finger, assigning blame and accusatory. ‘How’ is letting them express and explain. It opens the discussion with less guilt as they are no longer defending themselves, rather they are openly responding and without the assumption of blame or guilt.
Colin hopes this will start to get you thinking more about the processes and the way the business is working; Finding out route causes but not the individual roots but the company and system based roots.
Why often takes you to the shortcut… Theyre called shortcuts as they bring efficiency to the business
If you ask how the job was done, what you're starting to do is get deep, deep into the ethos of the job and its completion.
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast
ABOUTTHE HOST Colin’sBiography
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential
Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into the industry.
Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes
That are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses. Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer.
He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
We are continually hearing bad news and when times are challenging it can be difficult to keep going and complete activities on a regular basis.
The peaks and troughs of work can cause enormous problems but if for all aspects of your business you can implement a little and often approach you will be able to continue to drive your business and health and safety culture forward whatever the economic climate
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Machinery inspections - get operators to do a check on any equipment to make sure its fit for use, replacing any guards or safety elements as required.
Regular housekeeping - get walkways cleared to remove trip and slip hazards. Simple housekeeping tasks can make a huge improvement to the work environment through everybody doing a little every day.
Training - make sure to continue with training this can be in-house but should be delivered regularly.
Risk assessment - this is fundamental. If you get it right everything else falls into place
Review your risk assessments and make sure they are shared with everyone.
Communication – this is key. Ask what the company is doing well, what it could do better and crucially what it shouldn’t be doing.
These simple steps will make a big difference in how your business runs
BEST MOMENTS
‘Pop into the canteen and ask people how they are doing’
‘Keep it simple don’t point the finger’
‘Sit down and regularly have a chat with the people in your business’
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health &Safety Podcast
ABOUTTHE HOST
Colin’sBiography
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential
Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into the industry.
Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes
That are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving
many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer.
He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Where Do You go for your health and safety Answers?
In this episode, Colin discusses where to find the answers and provides great advice on how to improve consultation communication with employees.
If you want to create a culture of transparency and better performance along with smart health and safety practice then listen in now.
KEY TAKEAWAYS If you have a health and safety issue go and speak to your employees. They are the people who really know what's going on Good quality consultation and communication with your employees can have an enormously positive effect in improving your health and safety performance Get people together and talk to them Make sure everyone on the site is represented and Set up a safety committee or forum that meets regularly When you get people together keep a record so the interaction can be used to drive things forward and if possible ensure a decision maker attends any meeting If you do need advice from external agencies then make sure you are clear about the value of the message and advice they bring. From a communication perspective, it's about talking to employees regularly, celebrating the things that have gone well and listening closely to the things they have concerns about. What do we need to do to make this workplace better? If you can ask this question every day and take action to move forward you will be making a positive impact on your workplace.
BEST MOMENTS
‘Keep it simple keep it straightforward’
‘A transparent business is one that will have much better performance because people are working together’
‘Safety representatives can have a really big impact on your business’
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health&
Safety Podcast
ABOUTTHE HOST
Colin’sBiography
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential
Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry.
Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes
That are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving
many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer.
He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Businesses should be proud of good productivity and profit; without it they wouldn’t survive, and Health and Safety should hold the same level of importance as any other area such as accounting and finance. A smart business makes sure that health and safety are integral to the way they work and in this episode Colin explores some of the ways companies are effective in creating and operating an inclusive Health and Safety environment.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Smart businesses understand health and safety is as important as finance, profit and productivity. It means you spend as much time talking about health and safety as you do other topics. Some companies put it on every meeting agenda, but this is compartmentalising it and in reality, there are health and safety concerns in everything we do. Health and safety are often seen as operational issues so spread it into non-operational areas and encourage and enable other teams to discuss any and all health and safety implications across the work environment and operation. Assessing risk is vital for any business. Look at all the hazards and ask others how well they think they are being controlled in the workplace. This information will form an action plan that you can then move forward with. Get a good understanding of what risks you have in your business. if you spend time looking at your risk profile and the procedures you have in place you will be spending a comparable time on health and safety If you can understand your business, its risks and what it faces you can get control in place
BEST MOMENTS
‘The businesses that treat it with equal importance get things right’
‘They didn’t have anything in the middle, they hadn’t thought about it’
‘These guys had overlooked it and it was a risk’
‘Encourage all people to think about how others are working’
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health& Safety Podcast
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin’s Biography
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into the industry.
Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes
that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving
many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer.
He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sadly, people are killed every year because of isolation and lock off are not completed correctly. In this episode, Colin explains in detail the process for isolation and lock off and why checks should be carried out through the isolation and lock off process.
If you need concise and informative instructions on how to go through the isolation and lock off process effectively for maintenance on any equipment this podcast is a must
KEY TAKEAWAYS You need to identify all pieces of equipment operating on the site and clearly mark them so you can refer accurately to them. Mark the links between the equipment and their isolators Equipment may have different energy sources, and these may need to be isolated in different ways. You need to have a clear set of instructions for isolating the plant and ensuring it can’t be re-energised. A good practice is to have isolation and lock off record log, this will enable you to track what is happening and when. The plant must be shut down in a controlled way for any maintenance activity. When the plant is shut down it should be isolated, and a lock put on. It's vital to test that the isolation and lock off are working prior to beginning any maintenance work activity. It's advisable to signal to others that maintenance is taking place on a piece of equipment. There needs to be very good communication between the people on site. When the maintenance is completed the control measures should be replaced and checked and then the locks can be removed When the equipment is restarted its vital everyone knows that this is happening.
BEST MOMENTS
‘There is a responsibility on every person with a lock’
‘If the plant is shut down, lock off makes sure it cannot be turned back on again’
‘If you are working in a confined space or at height you may require a permit to work’
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health& Safety Podcast
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin’s Biography
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his
consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry.
Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes
that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take
a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels
within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving
many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer.
He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
‘We have gone into a site that was dis-functional and challenged the guys and the management to think differently about what they are doing and how they are behaving’
Colin is passionate about Health and Safety and in this episode explains how challenges can be approached in a way that involves everybody. If you want to make Health and Safety an area that everyone in your business is involved in listen in now.
KEY TAKEAWAYS Health and safety can be about doing things differently. I chose to be accompanied by the foreman at a site and it was the first time he had been included. I took the approach of involving everyone in the process of understanding why it had got to that situation. It was quite groundbreaking for people to discuss ‘why’ Some of the commentaries were around reporting issues and this provided an opportunity for the manager to explain his role and reach as part of the management chain. The discussion led to people beginning to take ownership and being more open to suggestions about how things could change if they took action. If everyone just did one thing it would amount to lots being achieved in one week. Creating a forum can be a way of getting the lads, those on the site to take ownership and make their own improvements. If everyone did one thing every day it would amount to a significant amount being achieved in one week. Involving everyone in the creation of rules will drive engagement and ownership of those rules increasing greatly the likely hood they will be implemented. If you can spend time with your staff and get them to take ownership for themselves you can make a difference.
BEST MOMENTS
‘It's about thinking about what's really important’
‘If we need to we can give it a nudge to help it along’
‘The manager on site was a bit disenchanted feeling it's him against the world with the things he is trying to do for health and safety on the site’
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast
ABOUT THE HOST
Colin’s Biography
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into the industry.
Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer.
He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
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Welcome to The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast!
In this podcast, your host Colin Nottage aims to bring you something that is serious… but fun! 'Health and Safety' is often thought of something that is boring, but Colin will show you this is far from it! He is going to show you this by bringing Health and Safety to life with stories and lessons, as well as his own extensive experience and knowledge.
This podcast has a very clear aim;
Making Health & Safety as important as everything else you do in Business
Colin Nottage has 25 years under his belt supplying health and safety support to many people and businesses. Listen in and let Colin show you how to reap the benefits of this and improve productivity, quality, profitability and health and safety performance!
ABOUT HOST Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry.
Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought after health and safety speaker and trainer.
He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Construction dust is not just a nuisance it can be a major health hazard. In this informative episode, Colin is discussing how the HSE and other stakeholders are working to control dust hazards.
Chris currently heads the HSE health risk management unit within the policy team, interfacing between operational and the policymakers. They discuss the work of the HSE in this area and the ways in which companies can control and manage the risk successfully.
KEY TAKEAWAYS We want people to go home healthy, it is a clear and simple message about what we want to achieve. When you first place a design on a piece of paper any changes are easy to make when the change is made on site the cost and risk have increased exponentially The biggest areas we have concerns about are long latency illness where the disease doesn’t manifest itself until much later. It's not what you see at the moment but what will be seen in the future and the effects from exposure to dust are not seen until much later. We are undertaking a big social media campaign to raise awareness inspections are an important part of improvement, but we are looking to ultimately change people’s long-term behaviour. It is seen as tomorrows problem, but we want to make sure people are aware of it today Silica dust can scar your lungs and is linked to cancer and the dust from natural products such as wood are also a risk. People are not aware because it takes so long to manifest itself
What should businesses be doing to control or eliminate risks? Reviewing the materials used and the equipment to reduce and control dust. Controlling at the source is about stopping the dust escaping. It needs to be captured in some way. The key thing people get wrong is not recognising the risk at all or they think a mask is an adequate control when it is only good as a last resort It's vital that people gain a better understanding of the risks. There is information easily available from the Construction Dust Partnership and the HSE
BEST MOMENTS
‘Everything has to work well and is only as good as its weakest part’
‘People are not aware because it takes so long to manifest itself’
‘It’s not what you see at the moment but what will be seen in the future’
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast
The Construction Dust Partnership
https://www.hse.gov.uk/
ABOUTTHE HOST
Colin’sBiography
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential
Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into the industry.
Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes
That are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses. Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer.
He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.