Safety And Risk Success

Christian Harris speaks with Henry Evans, founder of Dynamic Results and author of Bombs, Bacon, and Bankruptcy: The Art of Crisis Leadership , about how leaders can prepare for a crisis before it arrives. Henry explains how 9/11 redirected his life, and how a failed first company and 22 years of counterterrorism work shaped his approach. He uses three case studies: an eight-year mission to eradic...

Recorded live as a Safety Roundtable, Christian Harris speaks with Joanne Lockwood, an inclusion speaker, podcaster and author, about the human side of safety: the fear of getting it wrong, bias, language and trust. Joanne shares how she moved from the RAF and a career in IT into inclusion work, and what she learned about unconscious exclusion along the way. She explains why fear holds people back...

Christian Harris speaks with Kylie Long, a registered nurse who works in a major trauma centre in Brisbane and runs the workplace health and safety consultancy Support and Safety Solutions, about what emergency nursing has taught her about proactive safety and the human side of risk. Kylie explains why she moved from reactive, chaotic clinical work into prevention, and how reading people and rooms...

Health and safety does not stop when you leave work. In this episode of the Safety Roundtable, Christian Harris talks to Adam Gomes about what happens when you take health and safety skills into your community. It was recorded live, with questions and comments from the audience. Adam has worked in health and safety for over 20 years, including at the NHS and the University of Derby. He sits on the...

Recorded on the 28th anniversary of the Longford gas plant explosion, Christian Harris speaks with Trish Kerin of Lead Like Kerin about the incident that redirected her career into process safety, and why she believes leadership, communication and weak signals are the three areas the industry most needs to improve. Trish explains what happened at Longford, how it led to a new legislative framework...

Christian Harris hosts this Safety Roundtable with Peter Bennett OBE of the No Falls Foundation, unpacking why falls from height have remained the UK's leading cause of workplace fatalities for decades, and what's actually standing in the way of real progress. The conversation covers why familiarity with a task quietly erodes risk perception, why the industry still lacks the detailed precursor dat...

Christian Harris is joined by Dr. Rosina McAlpine, award-winning educator and founder of Win Win Parenting, to explore why burnout among working parents deserves to be treated as a genuine workplace risk rather than a personal wellbeing issue. Rosina shares the research and data behind her work, including why general wellbeing initiatives fall short for working parents, the stark gender disparity...

Christian Harris hosts a live Sliptember masterclass, walking through the data, science and method behind reducing slip risk and improving legal defensibility. Recorded as part of the Safety Roundtable series. The episode covers why confidence in slip safety is often built on perception rather than evidence, why common fixes like matting, cleaning, anti-slip flooring, insurance and signage don't s...

Christian Harris opens this year's Sliptember campaign with the story of Dennis Satchell, who suffered multiple hip fractures after a fall at a Tesco Extra in 2015, and what environmental health officer Justin Strange uncovered when he led the prosecution that followed. A known hazard, managed with signs and boom socks instead of being fixed, is the pattern Christian says he sees at organisation a...

Christian Harris joined by Paul Goodreau, a former hydrogeologist who went on to become a CEO, business leader and now author and career coach, for a conversation about ownership, career planning and knowing when you're on the right track. Paul shares the career life cycle model behind his book, Own Your Career, No One Else Will, and explains why so many technically skilled professionals in safety...

Christian is joined again by Louise Hosking, who has spent the last six months developing a new framework called the Choice Chain. It started with a question Christian asked on a webinar about why more data and more effort do not always lead to better outcomes. Louise draws on 35 years of experience across risk, safety and membership organisations, and on recent study at teh Cambridge Institute of...

Christian Harris shares the results of the third annual State of Safety survey in this Safety Roundtable session. The data reveals a clear priority gap. Manual handling, slips and trips consistently cause the most harm, yet they rank far lower when it comes to management attention and resource. This episode covers the confidence gap between how safe organisations believe they are and how much they...

In this episode, Christian Harris speaks with Amar Shahzad, founder of the Occupational Health and Safety Institute Sweden and host of the Safety by Amar Shahzad podcast. Amar opens up about the workplace accident that first drew him into safety. He unpacks the difference between compliance and genuine understanding, and reflects on the mindset shifts that came from interviewing respected voices i...

Wyatt Bradbury of Avetta, ASSP's 2026 Safety Professional of the Year, joins Christian for a Safety Roundtable on building genuine safety culture across an interconnected workforce of direct staff, contractors and gig labour. They discuss why the newest or least familiar person on site often carries the most risk, why certain contracted staff can end up caught between two organisations without ful...

In this episode, Christian Harris speaks with Anna Albright, founder of Klima, about the true cost of heat on worker safety and productivity. Anna shares the story of a delayed flight that revealed ground crews, not aircraft systems, were being grounded by extreme heat, and how that realisation led her to leave a career at J.P. Morgan and BCG to build a wearable cooling device for industrial worke...

In this Safety Roundtable session, Christian Harris explores what he calls the safety confidence gap. Early data from our State of Safety Survey shows 94% of respondents rate their safety performance as average or better, but only half are confident their risks are measured rather than assumed. Christian shares a case where a 91 year old fractured his hip in a Tesco store, resulting in a fine of n...

Would your workplace still be safe if every regulation vanished overnight? That question sits at the heart of this conversation between Christian Harris and Brad Johnson, safety coordinator and author of Noncompliant Safety. Brad talks candidly about breaking into safety with no formal training, learning the hard way that a fully compliant team can still be carrying real risk, and why he now treat...

Are more letters after your name actually making you a better safety professional, or just better at collecting certificates? In this episode of the Safety Roundtable, Christian Harris is joined by Dr. David Thomas, Senior Lecturer and Programme Lead for Health and Safety Management at Middlesex University, for a candid and at times controversial look at how the industry qualifies, and misqualifie...

Most incident investigations depend heavily on witness accounts, but what if human memory is far less reliable than we assume? In this episode, Christian Harris is joined by Elizabeth Hyde and Dr Samantha Masley , experts in witness memory, psychology and investigations, to explore the fascinating science behind how people remember events and why those memories can sometimes be misleading. Togethe...

Mental health and wellbeing is something every Organisation talks about, yet many of the people who need support the most never ask for it. Why?   That question sits at the heart of my conversation with Nick Elston, who has spent more than a decade helping Organisations engage the people who are often the hardest to reach. Drawing on his own lived experience of obsessive compulsive disorder, anxie...

Risk management is often viewed as something that keeps Organisations out of trouble. But what if it could do far more than that? My guest, Graeme Fleming, argues that risk is one of the most powerful tools leaders have for making better decisions, achieving strategic objectives and creating competitive advantage. Drawing on more than 25 years of experience in governance, risk and compliance, Grae...

Before you think "it won't happen here", consider this: a company was fined £10,000 for a serious machinery incident in early 2016. Just weeks later, a similar case resulted in a £1.6 million fine. Ten years after the sentencing guidelines transformed the health and safety legal landscape, the consequences are impossible to ignore. Fines are higher, accountability has sharpened, and Organisations...

There's a dangerous assumption still deeply embedded in many workplaces that if people would just follow the rules, incidents wouldn't happen. But what if that thinking is actually making safety worse? My conversation with Jake Mazulewicz challenged a lot of conventional thinking around human error, procedures, investigations and safety leadership. Drawing on experience from firefighting, emergenc...

Safety is changing faster than many organisations can comfortably keep up with. But as technology evolves, workplace expectations shift, and new risks emerge, one question becomes impossible to ignore: is the safety profession evolving quickly enough to stay relevant and make a bigger impact? In this conversation, I sat down with Richard Bate, President of IOSH, for a frank and insightful discussi...

The internet was meant to make life easier. Instead, it's created a world where trust is constantly under pressure. That's why this conversation with Jesse Tayler stayed with me long after we finished recording. Jesse was there at the beginning of the digital revolution, creating the world's first digital app store long before platforms and online identities became part of everyday life. What foll...