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In this episode, Mary Conquest speaks with experienced Safety Director Stephanie Benay, one of Canada’s foremost HSE experts and current Governor of the Board of Canadian Registered Safety Professionals. Stephanie reflects on her 25-year journey as a female safety professional. She describes what the safety world was like for women a quarter of a century ago and explores how the workplace safety e...

In this episode, Mary Conquest speaks with Dr Gary Namie, a social psychologist widely regarded as North America’s foremost authority on workplace bullying. Along with his wife, he’s the founder of the Workplace Bullying Institute, and they’ve also co-authored multiple books and academic articles addressing this issue. Gary begins this powerful interview with a very impactful definition of workpla...

In this episode, Mary Conquest speaks with Dr Tristan Casey, an organizational psychologist specializing in safety leadership and organizational culture, who understands how to generate research with practical impact. Safety culture is a very broad and all-encompassing term - which causes much confusion. Tristan reveals the origins of this lack of clarity and shares three theoretical perspectives...

In this episode, Mary Conquest speaks with Moni Hogg, a Senior HSE professional, safety trainer and conference speaker who specializes in the Safety Differently. She focuses on cutting-edge safety approaches to enable creative, innovative and efficient culture transformation. Mary has literally written a handbook on implementing New View Safety, and she shares the key ideas underpinning this appro...

In this episode, Mary Conquest speaks with Stephen Harvey, an operations-focused HSE professional who takes a pragmatic approach to risk. Currently senior health and safety partner with Origin Energy, he shares his extensive experience of embedding contemporary safety practices and positively impacting organizational safety culture. Steve believes safety management is too boring, and he’s on a mis...

In this episode, Mary Conquest speaks with US Navy veteran James Junkin, CEO of international safety consultancy Mariner-Gulf Consulting and Services, who’s worked in the oil industry since 1995 and is an advisory board member for the American Society of Safety Professionals. James isn’t afraid to ruffle a few feathers and shares his no-nonsense thoughts on all things safety in this entertaining i...

In this episode, Mary Conquest speaks with David Heap, a leading organizational and coaching psychologist with over 30 years of professional experience. He's a graduate member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and has a BSc in Psychology and an MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management. David helps safety professionals understand why organizations are increasingly adding...

In this episode, Mary Conquest speaks with former Marine Michael Flynn, Corporate Safety Director of Barnard Construction, who’s held safety roles in construction since 1995. Hiring in the safety profession is a crucial process for any leader looking to build an effective safety team. At the same time, new safety professionals need to know what skills are required to attract potential employers. M...

In this episode, Mary Conquest speaks with Subena Colligan, former safety leader in the US Air Force and Kimberly Clark, who is now an EHS transformation coach and consultant. She holds a bachelor's and master's degree in Occupational Health and Safety, is the vice chair of the board for Global EHS Credentialing and founded her business, S. Coligan Coaching in 2021. Subena has experienced burnout...

In this episode, Mary Conquest speaks with Jason van Schie, a psychological Health and Safety expert, qualified psychologist, podcaster and Managing Director of People Diagnostix - a health technology company. Jason explains that psychosocial risk covers anything in the design or management of work causing employees stress e.g. ongoing unreasonable deadlines or witnessing a traumatic accident. Saf...

In this episode, Mary Conquest speaks with Dr Ivan Pupulidy, an international speaker and consultant focused on Risk, Safety, Aviation, Wildland Firefighting and Human and Organizational Performance (HOP). He spent over two decades in the US Forest Service, culminating in a promotion to Director of the Office of Innovation and organizational learning. Accident investigation techniques have remaine...

In this episode, Mary Conquest speaks with Chris Moulden, Vice President of HSE at Primoris Services, who’s a certified safety management specialist and Canadian-registered safety technician.  Chris prides himself on working with integrity, passion, and a value-driven cultural mindset and uses his leadership skills to help create proactive, sustainable safety-conscious workplace environments. Many...

In this episode, Mary Conquest speaks with Dr I. David Daniels, a safety consultant and certified safety director, who holds a Ph. D. in occupational health and safety. David is passionate about keeping everyone safe - not just the designers of workplace systems. He doesn’t blame anyone for currents oversights that put some sections of society at greater risk of injury. Instead, Dr Daniels attribu...

In this episode, Mary Conquest speaks with Cristian Sylvestre, founder and managing director of training consultancy HabitSafe and author of Third Generation Safety: The Missing Piece. Cristian is passionate about applying the latest neuroscience and behavioral research to help individuals and organizations be safer - and refers to this cutting-edge approach as Third-Generation Safety. He argues t...

In this episode, Mary Conquest speaks with Stephen Scott, a Human and Organizational Performance  (HOP) consultant and speaker who spent three decades at Alcoa, the aluminum giant that famously decided to focus on safety over profits. Stephen had a realization that pursuing zero incidents was actually harming workplace safety. He argues this approach encourages organizations to cover up mistakes a...

In this episode, Mary Conquest speaks with Sam Goodman, safety consultant, author, podcaster and Human Organizational Performance (HOP) expert. Sam is convinced that upfront and honest conversations are needed to cultivate safety improvement. He believes the profession has stagnanted for too long and EHS professionals are often overworked and undervalued. After nearly walking away from safety, he...

In this episode, Mary Conquest speaks with Josh Bryant, a General Manager of People, Risk and Sustainability who’s worked in the mining industry for over 20 years and implemented an award-winning critical risk management system. Josh has always been open to different workplace safety frameworks and uses scientific reasoning to decide which elements to adopt or reject. He’s not tied to any particul...

In this episode, Mary Conquest speaks with Jason Anker, an author, motivational speaker and consultant who was made a Member of the British Empire in 2015 for his contributions to the world of health and safety. Jason was paralyzed from the waist down due to an avoidable accident on a construction site in 1993 when he was just 24 years old. He only started speaking about this devastating incident...

In this episode, Mary Conquest speaks with Scott Gesinger, an experienced safety director and author of The Fearless World of Professional Safety in the 21st Century. Scott guides safety professionals on a high-level tour of the past, present and future of workplace safety. He begins with the origins of modern safety practices, which emerged after a high-profile disaster in 1911 that was widely pu...

In this episode, Mary Conquest speaks with Rey Gonzalez, a consultant and coach who provides expertise on sustainable performance improvement and human error reduction. He's worked in high-risk industries for over 40 years and has spent most his professional life working to improve safety through ehancing human performance. Rey explains why empowering co-workers to stop work when they sense risk i...

In this episode, Mary Conquest speaks with Dr Logan F. Martin. Logan has over 30 years of experience in occupational safety management across multiple industries and holds a Doctorate in Occupational Health and Safety. Additionally, she owns a successful consulting business, hosts a regular podcast, and is a sought-after speaker at safety industry events. Dr Martin combines her extensive practical...

In this episode, Mary Conquest speaks with Deborah Barrett, an Ethics, Compliance & Operations Executive who holds a Master's Degree of Science in Business Ethics and Compliance. Deborah uses her extensive experience working in corporate settings to help EHS professionals avoid getting lost in complex enterprises. It can be easy to become just another number in large organizations, especially...

In this episode, Mary Conquest speaks with Dr. Susanne Bahn, co-founder of Tap into Safety - a safety training consultancy. Susanne’s PhD specialized in Health and Safety Management, and she worked as a safety consultant for 15 years. Dr. Bahn combines her practical experience and academic knowledge to explore a key activity for EHS professionals - safety training. Her mission is to make training...

In this episode, Mary Conquest speaks with Bridget Leathley, a freelance health and safety adviser, writer, instructional designer, trainer and auditor. She's also a Chartered Fellow with the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health and an Associate Fellow with the British Psychological Society. Bridget highlights the importance of well-written and clearly communicated safety procedures - and...

In this episode, Mary Conquest speaks with Mary Stine, an EHS director, consultant and storytelling expert. Mary combines her safety experience with her passion for telling stories to help HSE professionals leverage the power of narrative. She explains why storytelling is so compelling for humans and how this can be harnessed to help organizations improve safety performance. Mary discusses many el...