Barclayss®

Fatality Free Future® Podcast

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The program and podcast for safety We want to see a world where people go to work and come home safely every day. Over the past decade, more than 1,880 people have lost their lives to traumatic injuries in Australian workplaces. More than 1.16 million workers have made serious compensation claims involving extended time off work (Safe Work Australia, 2024). We believe these incidents are not inevitable. With the right focus, strategies, and support, they are preventable. Our mission is simple. To help individuals and organisations focus on what really matters, building safer routines, stronger...

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Ownership and Accountability | Fatality Free Future #5 17.08.2025 21:41

John Barclay and Holly Ferguson welcome back Ricky Galloway for a discussion on Critical Risk Management (CRM) . They break down the core components of CRM, including risk identification, severity analysis, and the application of the hierarchy of controls. Ricky explains the difference between hard controls (physical measures) and soft controls (administrative or behavioural), and why both are nee...

Tape not Stitches | Fatality Free Future #4 11.08.2025 25:52

In this episode of the Fatality Free Future podcast, Holly and John bring back Alan Stevenson to discuss the importance of identifying and classifying serious injury and fatality (SIF) events. Alan emphasises the need to consider both the actual and potential severity of incidents, using real-world examples to illustrate the potential for serious harm. This episode highlights the challenges of ma...

What the Research Tells Us | Fatality Free Future #3 03.08.2025 20:33

In this episode of the Fatality Free Future podcast John and Holly explore the landscape of Serious Injury and Fatality (SIF) research with Ricky Galloway, a senior health and safety consultant at Barclayss®. Drawing on his background in psychology and occupational health and safety, Ricky unpacks three key studies on SIF differentiators, precursors, and predictors. While non-fatal recordable inju...

What’s Really Happening on the Ground? | Fatality Free Future #2 27.07.2025 30:49

Let’s delve into the concept of “Work as Imagined” vs. “Work as Done,” and explore how assumptions and oversimplifications in safety systems can lead to blind spots around serious risks. In this episode Holly and John are joined by Barclayss® principal consultant Alan Stevenson to discuss how systems are often designed with ideal scenarios in mind, rather than the real-world complexity that worke...

Going Beyond Compliance and Checklists | Fatality Free Future #1 15.07.2025 17:35

In this premiere episode of the Fatality Free Future® podcast, Safety Leadership Coach John Barclay and Content Developer Holly Ferguson aim to create a space where critical conversations around workplace safety can happen. John shares how he started his safety journey over 20 years ago, as a first responder to a fatality. It was an experience that changed his life and spurred his purpose to elimi...