Safeopedia Podcasts

“So, what does mental health have to do with safety anyway?” On this month’s episode of The Safety View, we have a discussion around mental health and its role in human and organizational safety. She will set the stage for the discussion by sharing statistics, available resources, and its impact on the field of safety science. We hope you will join us to learn and to contribute to learning by part...

In this episode of Safety Talks we speak with CJ Golay the CEO and Eric St. John Vice President of Sales from Rocky Mountain Industrial Supply, a family owned business. We are going to look at Rethinking our Worker Protection products. Do we think about our PPE in the right light, or is it time to blow up the concept of PPE? That is what we are diving into, in our discussion today.

Join Rosa Carrillo as she reads from her book "The Relationship Factor in Safety Leadership: Achieving Success Through Employee Engagement". Rosa shares her insights and as our community members share theirs and as questions. Our Guest Rosa Carrillo  author of The Relationship Factor in Safety Leadership, safety leadership consultant, MS in Organizational development. Get her book here: &nbsp...

Join as we discuss how to leverage storytelling in our leadership and management practices.

Join us as we discuss how we as women can help empower each other to take the next step in our careers and overcome challenges in our lives. Lisa Hubbard  of  Premier Safety  and  Lauren Bailey  of  Factor 8  share their experiences and insights around how to move forward and take on our next career challenges.

Are you basing your safety strategy on how you imagine work is done or how work is actually done? In episode 19 of Safety Talks Cary Usrey and Jim Loud discuss the importance of getting to know our workers and the work they are doing to ensure we use true management best practices for safety. Cary and Jim share their insights about how to engage deeper with your team and strategize for work actual...

Our host Lisa Lande, Ph. D will lead our discussion about how we are facing uncertainties like never before, within and across nearly every system at play: human, social, political, economic, ecological, biological, societal, geo-political, educational, organizational.

Join us as we dive into a great discussion with Kathi Dobson of Alberici Constructors  and Amy Parent of Goodyear about the value of learning about our Workers individuality and looking at safety from the perspective of our workers, not a "Safety Enforcer".

Join us as Ashling Boyd and Darren Sutton talk about a real life accident our guest lived through. Darren Sutton talks with Ashling about the events and how to identify the four types of consequences that influence whether or not an accident might be the final outcome. During their discussion, they use the "Perfect Storm" methodology to better understand various events that influence outcomes. Joi...

On this Safety View Rosa leads our session to discuss "The Myth of Crisis Leadership: a Practical Approach to Stress Management". Every day we are showered with articles and webinars on how to manage “return to work” the “new normal” or the upcoming economic crisis.  They recommend creating psychological safety, paying attention to people’s emotions, practicing mindfulness and vulnerability....

Join us! In this episode of Safety Talk Adrianna Carrera of Magid and Bob Gardner of Abco Safety share their knowledge and expertise about heat stress. Their insights will help us to better prepare our teams against the potential risks our workers could face in various environments of extreme heat.

Jim Spigener of Dekra says ... "The bad news is we are still highly dependent on behavior! Come join us as Jim Spigener, Chief Client Officer of Dekra , holds a "Townhall Style" discussion, as Jim likes to call it. 😀 In this community discussion, Jim answers our members' questions from his webinar " Using Exposure Control to Improve Decision Making and Safety Performance ." and shares his insight...

In this episode of Safety Talks Corrie Pitzer CEO of Safemap International and Tamara Parris talk about the beliefs and myths around safety, and how they impact our organizational safety values and culture.

In this episode 17 we speak with Kristi Cassat and Dave White about the business benefits of leveraging your safety distributor as a partner, and how they can help increase employee engagement and continuous improvement of our safety programs.

Lisa introduces, and invites us to explore an interesting safety conundrum: If absolutes and certainty are necessary conditions for safety, how do we sustain safety or even a sense of it, in a VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous) world? How do we explain the paradox inherent in our need of challenge and uncertainty (“unsafety”) to draw on and strengthen resilience?*  * Resilienc...

Does your distributor support their products? In episode sixteen of  Women in Safety , sponsored by Safeopedia, we are chatting with Tracy Rouse and Shrikar Patel about the importance of creating partnerships between EHS Professionals, Safety Distributor and Product Manufactures. We learn about how key it is for our distributors to have the knowledge and expertise to help solve our inter...

Rosa Carrillo leads our discussion on the Exploring the socio in sociotechnical systems. Our Hosts: Rosa Antonia Carrillo, Masters of Science in Organizational development, author of The Relationship Factor in Safety Leadership. Lisa Lande, Ph. D. Lisa Lande, Ph. D. (Licensed psychologist with an emphasis on cognition, learning, human and organizational purpose and performance. Owner of Petrichor...

In episode 16 of Safety Talk Burk Shaw, Lisa Nash and Cary Usrey discuss the importance of vetting and getting to know your distributors or suppliers to ensure we are keeping our workforce safe. During the purchasing process of PPE and safety equipment, it is important to confirm what you are purchasing is safe and that you can TRUST safety product purchaser. Listen i...

In episode 15 of Safety Talk, join  Bubba Wolford ,  Blake Haynes ,  Scott Yetter  and  Mike Kay  discuss the importance of hydration in the workplace and keeping our workforce healthy. Our discussion today covers a range of points; our Worker’s Health and the health risks due to dehydration, benefits of proper hydration practices for individuals, and how companies ca...

In episode fifteen of  Women in Safety , sponsored by Safeopedia, we are chatting with  Dr Susanne Bahn  CEO of  Tap into Safety  and  Dr Philippa Milne , Specialist Learning & Development at  Rio Tinto . We talk about what is psychological risk? We look at what it takes to develop psychological safety in the workplace, importance of team building and our rol...

Patrick and Robert Pater discuss Internalizing Safety based on Robert’s recent article in Professional Safety magazine. Robert first talks about the importance of leadership in establishing safety excellence. We then deep dive into 10 specific actions that organizations can take to improve their safety culture and outcomes. Robert is a prolific occupational health and safety author and commentator...

In episode 13 of Safety Talk j oin Henry Skjerven and several of our ESH Community members as they chat about if Safety Professional's need to take more of a leadership role in coordinating our Government Emergency Planning. Our discussion today covers a range of points, from coordinating within our workplaces during a crisis, through to our what should our professional role be within the larger g...

What is your Air Cleaning Plan? In episode 12 of Safety Talks Dr. Michael Seitz of BlueSky Global and Tamara Parris talk about Aerosols! (Video version: https://buff.ly/3dpokpX ). We hash out how does an aerosol virus (such as COVID-19) transfers between people then dive into WHY it is so critically important to clean our air in Public indoor spaces! Michael believes we need to start pushing...

In this episode, Robert Pater and I discuss his recently published article, InVisible Leadership that can be found at ohsonline.com. Robert discusses the some of the impactful cultural elements of strong organizations that are frequently not very visible or appreciated by employees and managers. Through this conversation, Robert covers seven key areas of focus for moving your organization towards...

What is your organisation's Safety Plan for COVID-19? In episode fourteen of  Women in Safety , sponsored by  Safeopedia , we changed things up by doing a community discussion! We chat with  Leanne Coffman the President of The Safety Training Solution and Steven Stelpflug the Principal of WordWerks Consulting. We talk about COVID-19 Coronavirus; to learn the facts, answer...