Safety And Risk Success

Clive Johnson, President of IIRSM and Head of Health & Safety for Derwent London, joins Christian Harris on this episode of the Safety & Risk Success Podcast. As you'll tell from listening, Clive is a vastly experienced, highly engaging and inspirational safety and risk leader. Topics covered include: The influential role Clive played in getting Mates In Mind set up, which has saved countless live...

Colin Nottage, the host of The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast, joins Christian Harris on this episode. So, rather than asking the questions for once, Colin is now answering them! Colin's day job is a health, safety, environment and quality consultancy https://www.influentialmg.com/ and the chat digs into the business and what it does, plus Colin's journey, and his learnings over the years abo...

On this episode of the Safety & Risk Success Podcast, Christian Harris is joined by Richard Bevins and Simon Cutmore of Verlingue. Verlingue is an insurance broker, focusing on AIM and FTSE250 sized businesses and with a passion for risk management. Richard, Simon and Christian discuss topics such as: - what is Enterprise Risk Management and why are Verlingue expanding their services in this area...

How can you get risk management embedded in an organisation? Make it simple to understand and implement. Andrew Sheves is a firm believer in this and, on this interview with Christian Harris, he delves into this topic and much more. Other highlights include: Return on investment vs Loss on investment - how to calculate what the status quo is costing you and how can you calculate the return on "sto...

📢 Communication is everything 📢 Christian Harris was delighted to be joined by Steve Colton , a renowned communications professional in the insurance and risk world When you're dealing with risk, getting your message right is, clearly, paramount As you'll hear, Steve has mastered the intricacies of this, navigating the changing platforms over the years But these lessons are applicable no matter...

Sonni Gopal of Red Risks is today's guest on the Safety & Risk Success Podcast. With a long and interesting career in safety and risk, Sonni has transitioned to focussing on creating content, educating and engaging to help spread the word on risk. It's no shock, given his philosophy is similar to that of Christian Harris, that they find themselves aligned on many points during this valuable discus...

Ariane Chapelle is an author, speaker and lecturer in the field of risk management, specialising in the financial services sector. Along with Christian Harris, Ariane discusses topics including: Their vision of simplifying risk management, aligning it to strategy execution, adaptability and learning from success How to quantify hard-to-measure risks like reputation. Ariane has a great analogy here...

Jay Allen is the founder of Safety FM, a radio streaming website and podcast network focussed on the world of safety.  In this episode of the podcast, Jay joins Christian Harris to discuss how he got into safety as a profession (spoiler alert - it wasn't what he dreamed of when growing up), how the concept of Safety FM was conceived, and how it has developed over time to be the great success it no...

David Scott heads up the leisure and hospitality practice within the corporate and sector risks practice of Keoghs. He joins Christian Harris on the podcast to discuss insurance claims defence in these sectors, focussing on slips but also with wider lessons to learn. David is a senior liability lawyer with over 30 years' experience of major employers liability and public liability claims, includin...

Russ Kendzior, "America's Slip-and-Fall Guy", joins Christian Harris on this episode of the Slip Safety Show.  Russ is the President of Traction Experts, Inc. and founder of the National Floor Safety Institute (NFSI). He is a nationally acclaimed lecturer, author and legal consultant.  Christian and Russ compare and contrast their experiences of what happens in the field of slip safety in the USA...

James Harvey is a specialist defendant insurance lawyer with significant experience of acting for clients in a number of sectors including facilities services, retail, leisure, manufacturing and construction. He joins Christian Harris on the podcast to discuss the insurance claims landscape, both historically and in the world of COVID-19.  What have been the most common types of insurance claims i...

Jonathan Dempsey is a Chartered Environmental Health professional, a Chartered Safety and Health professional, an MBA and was named as a Global Top 10 Safety Influencer in 2020. He joins Christian Harris on this episode of the Safety & Risk Success Show to share his story. This includes various experiences and insights ranging from working as an EHO to setting up his consultancy firm, Red Laces. W...

John Simpson of Fresh Check joins Christian Harris on this episode to talk through the importance of getting cleanliness right. In today's Covid world, it's no longer good enough to rely upon "it looks clean". John's product enables an instant view on how clean a surface truly is, but without the need for expensive equipment or training. This makes confirming cleanliness available to the masses. C...

Today's guest on the show is Charlie Turner, the Marketing Director of V12 Footwear. Charlie and Christian discuss the various ways that footwear helps to drive improved safety, but also the importance of other aspects such as comfort. With an inherited passion for safety footwear, Charlie has been in the game now for 10 years. His early career was spent in customer service and sales support and h...

In this episode, Christian Harris is joined by Chris Gill to discuss insurance risk management bursaries.  These really are a hidden secret. Wouldn't it be nice if your insurance company would pay for work to make your buildings safer? Well, actually, in many cases they will.  Yet, as Chris explains, much of this funding that is automatically allocated goes unspent. What a travesty!  You simply ne...

Dr Andrew Kemp, a specialist in disinfection and decontamination, joins Christian Harris on this episode of the Safety and Risk SUCCESS Podcast. Andrew has very strong views about the Coronavirus crisis and what government - both domestically and internationally - should have done differently when it comes to disinfection. He and Christian spend a good amount of time discussing this, but also go i...

On this episode of the podcast, Christian Harris is joined by James Tye from Hammersbach Consulting to discuss the benefits of more effective insurance claims management James has over 25 year's experience in the insurance industry. He has worked with a diverse client base from SMEs to some of the most notable FTSE 250 global businesses. James has developed an extensive practical knowledge, workin...

Channel 4 recently showed an episode of its Dispatches TV show called "How Safe Is Going Out" As Britain's service industry battles to survive Covid-19, Dispatches investigates the promises made by hotels, trains and pubs of 'deep cleans' and 'enhanced hygiene practices' You can find the show listed and free to watch here: https://www.channel4.com/programmes/dispatches/episode-guide Given Covid sa...

What is best practice when it comes to the delivery of cleaning services (in-house or outsourced)? Our guest on this episode, Mike Boxall, has a business which helps to answer that question by benchmarking performance We discuss how this works, what are the good and bad things he sees from both clients (e.g. are their expectations versus budgets realistic?) and contractors An interesting question...

Wouldn't it be good if you could get a Local Authority to officially sign off on all your H&S policies? Well, you can! Perhaps the best-kept secret in safety and risk management is the Primary Authority Scheme Dave Lovell of DSL Consulting helped to set the system up, ran it for a couple of years and now helps clients to set up partnerships with Local Authorities As we'll hear in the episode, this...

We're only a few episodes in, but I am changing the name of the podcast already! Safety and risk SUCCESS is, really, what it's all about for me. This is what we should all aspire to. This is what I am trying to educate people about and influence them to achieve. So the Slip Safety Show is no longer, instead, let's broaden our horizons and talk more widely about safety and risk. You can take the Sa...

Barrie speaks to Christian Harris about trends in the cleaning industry. Highlights include: - the growing importance and respect for cleaning operatives as a result of the Coronavirus crisis - the importance of understanding clean vs sanitise vs disinfect - how to go about running a process to choose a cleaning contractor - having "adult conversations" between contractor and client to get the rig...

In this episode, Christian Harris interviews Darren Holmes, head of operational risk management at Marsh (www.marsh.com) This wide-ranging chat starts and ends with a key point: risk management is all about protecting - indeed enhancing - a company's bottom line  From the trends in the insurance market, to the effects of COVID-19 on risk management, Darren shares some very helpful insights on how...

In this episode of the Slip Safety Show we are joined by Richard Bowman, an internationally-acclaimed expert in the field of slips, trips and falls. An author (with dozens of papers), and speaker on the topic of slips, trips and falls, since late 2005, Richard has been managing director of Intertile Research Pty Ltd, better known as Slipbusters. While Slipbusters undertake some routine testing, Ri...

Joining Christian on this episode of the Slip Safety Show is Matt Hodges-Long. Matt is the CEO of Continuity Partners, whose best known product is probably Track My Risks - a digital platform to ensure that all your safety & compliance needs are tracked, regularly updated and, essentially, done properly. As they say: "Governance, risk and compliance shouldn't have to be painful". Recently, Matt ha...