Rebranding Safety

Thank you so much to Steve for joining us on the pod this week after we reflected on the article he’d written for Sentinel on another episode a few weeks back. His article "Organisational Risk: Predicting the unpredictable" for IIRSM’s Sentinel Magazine was really refreshing to me. And now he’s here with us in the flesh! Steve has an extensive background in economics, security, nuclear, risk, the...

Bit late to the party but a little round up of our 2022, what we've been doing, what we're excited about and how we're moving forward into the coming year helping more businesses become Risk Fluent. Enjoy.

It's new Quarterly Co-Host time! So excited to have Tom with us for 3 cracking episodes all about psychological safety. Tom and his team at Psychsafety help organisations to be become more innovative, resilient and successful through their consulting, training and workshops. In this first episode, we dive into the basics - what is psychological safety? We chat about its origins, some big names wit...

So grateful to Matt for joining us again on the pod this week. A prominent voice in fire safety, Matt gives us an insight into how and why he got into campaigning, recommendations from the Grenfell enquiry, how the government have managed the situation and a breakdown of those all important changes to the regulations with some key milestones for 2023. We also discuss the importance of having a man...

A little insight into how, at Risk Fluent, we help our customers to balance practical and reasonable risk management and the ever growing demand for ****covering paperwork. James gives a keynote at the PASMA Conference on how to start rebranding health and safety in your business, build better cultures and sleep at night with a sense of confidence that is founded on effective risk management, not...

We're back! After a much needed break over the holidays, we're returning with this banger of an episode with Peter Jenkins, albeit a little later than planned! In this third and final episode in Peter's run as our quarterly co-host, we discuss the brand of safety; what's wrong with the contemporary brands of safety? What can we do about it? We talk about the commercial agendas within safety, the r...

Thank you so much to Liz for joining us on the pod this week. Management Consultant at One44 Complete Business Development, Liz delivers large scale, high priority projects including technological, people, regulatory and data driven transformational changes using various different approaches. With James, Liz discusses the degree to which safety is involved in project work, systems thinking and org...

Excited to bring you episode 2 of this quarterly co-host segment with the amazing Peter Jenkins. Continuing our discussion on brand, and following on from our last episode about personal brand, this month we get into procedure and initiative branding - what is it? How do we brand safety via our processes and functions? Scalable approaches, and the difference between brand and identity. Thanks agai...

This week, we are joined by Founder and CEO of SolusGuard, Serese Selanders. We discuss her amazing journey and what drove her to forming SolusGuard as well as all things Lone Working, including how the concept has changed over the years, those who are at risk might not be who immediately spring to mind, the aesthetics of wearable safety aids and the affects of social media. Thank you Serese for j...

Author of "The Safety Salesman: Shoot From The Lip", Simon Jones takes his experience in the Police Force, specifically CID and with James, chats about selling something that no one wants to buy, safety first and Heinrich's Triangle among other concepts in the book. Thanks again, Simon, for joining us on the pod. Enjoy.

This week, having read the article written by Steven Harris for IIRSMs The Sentinel Magazine, titled "Organisational Risk: Predicting the unpredictable", James gives his thoughts. Side note - this podcast was recorded in early October, so any thoughts are based on the political situation at that time.

So excited to bring you the first of three amazing episodes with our new quarterly cohost - Peter Jenkins, Group H&S Manager at Dalziel. Peter introduces the running theme perfectly in this episode, but ultimately we're taking a massive dive into the concept of BRAND - your personal brand, the brand of your programmes or projects, and the brand of the safety profession. In this episode on personal...

Thanks to Ronan from 'spacebands' who joins me to talk about how they developed a social distancing tool, which they had to do a 180 on when the rules no longer applied. Fascinating story of how to keep your product relevant and how wearable safety can change how we work. Enjoy.

Jules Reed is a Behavioural Scientist, working to bring psychology and technology together to help make us safer at work. We talk about culture, socially acceptable behaviours, professional integrity, nudge theory and other ways to influence a team. Thank you Jules for joining me this week.

The comings and goings of a safety consultant. This week, I chat about the launch of The Health and Safety Network, and the importance of having an ethical framework.

James and Sam Goodman AKA The HOP Nerd have a quick fire session about the challenges of implementing HOP with SME's. This was an episode that Sam has put out on The HOP Nerd Podcast - thanks so much for having me on Sam!

Gutted that it's the last episode Pete will be joining us as our quarterly co-host. It's been so informative and a great laugh, so thank you to him and hopefully we'll be hearing more from Pete in the future. For this last episode, we're joined by his fellow Fleet Geeks! With Mike and Jamie, we talk about why they joined Flagship Partners and started the podcast, and the challenges they see on a d...

Thanks so much to Vince for coming on the pod to talk to us about his career, The Hazards Campaign, his experience and knowledge of silicosis, and how as a profession, safety has a long way to go before we put people before profit. This one's an eye-opener. Enjoy.

The comings and goings of a safety consultant.

Thanks to Michael for joining us on the pod for a second time. In another episode where we view how theory has been put into practice, Michael takes us through his experience of practically applying 'new view' theories within the utilities and energy sector and navigating a complex and fast-paced industry with complex regulations. We discuss Safety Differently and Safety II, learning teams, the ro...

Pete is back with us again for his second episode as our quarter 3 co-host! This episode in the series on fleet safety focuses on Transport Managers. Making comparisons to the safety industry, Pete and James explore the role of a Transport Manager, they discuss the pathways to qualifying, soft skills, CPD, compliance vs cash, plus too much banter about hairstyles and beards to note! Enjoy.

James gives his thoughts on two recent news stories: "1 in 4 unsafe London buildings have non-cladding related fire safety issues" and "Starbucks to Close Stores over Safety Concerns". This chat touches on many things including; safety being a branding game, the absence of accidents and the presence of safety, and is stay-put safe? Naturally, this turns into a bit of a rant..... Side note - defini...

Thank you to Tiffany from Safety Culture for joining us on the pod this week. We talk about blame culture, and re-categorising accidents to avoid poor statistics, along with the solution to these, including celebrating improvements in safety using mobile-first technology. Enjoy.

So glad to finally publish this episode with Sonny. We had a few technical issues the first time we recorded but we went in for round 2, talking all about his amazing journey to publishing the industry guidance alongside a team of other experts. We discuss why there was a need for a new piece of guidance, the anxieties and challenges around fire alarms and the distress they can cause, and the suit...

Absolutely loved this chat with Dan from Protex AI about how AI can assist us in our roles as safety professionals. It's a massive concern that AI will be used by companies to wag the finger at employees and impose blame, but Dan talks about managing safety as a collective and understanding that it's a set of behaviours and cultures. The future of work cannot be seen without tech being involved. S...