Safety on Tap

There's few people more qualified to talk about the written word and it's role in health and safety, and that's my guest today Kevin Jones from safetyatworkblog.com.  On the other hand, I brought along a pretty biased view of the written word, which becomes pretty obvious when I turn a debate into a courtroom prosecution of the written word.   It's an interesting listen, and should get us all thin...

I know you already get paid. The question is whether you'd still convince someone to pay for you, your team, your services, if it was entirely their choice . It takes the conversation from "you have to have us", to "do you want us?".  It's a very different, and probably uncomfortable question to ask. In this episode Jenny Krasny shares how her business decided their function had made such an impac...

Click here to complete the 2016 Listener Survey - only takes 5 mins! In today's episode, we explore this new innovation in inductions and other training - based on research, and proven to be associated with increased knowledge retention and reduction in injury and property damage incidents. I haven't created the usual time-stamps (the audio equivalent of the table of contents) for this episode, as...

Groundhog Day, the 1993 movie starring Bill Murray.  That's what we're talking about today.  Well not really - though there is a pretty clear link between today's discussion with Tim Allred on the habit of reflection, and that feeling of 'groundhog day'.  It will all make sense at the end, I promise!   Listen in as we cover: 1:08 Cocktails and reflection 2:02 Quick recap on Tim's last interview 5:...

[GET YOUR BONUS]: Jen and the team at Jaxzyn showed us how to walk-the-talk, by creating a beautifully engaging summary of what we discuss in today's episode.  So it's a WHAT-TO-DO guide as well as a HOW-TO guide.  Clever! You can access that here .   Are you one of the few, who move the many? That's a seriously deep question.  Our guest today has a mission to help those few.   Jen Jackson leads J...

STOP! If you haven't already, I suggest you head over to listen to Part 1 first , then come back for this one to finish it off (it will make much more sense that way!).   Gordon Bedford continues his daring challenge to the idea of risk, by explaining the concept of vulnerability in some more detail.  I probe the idea to see if it really has legs, which I won't spoil before you listen :-)   IN par...

Have you ever had crazy thoughts, that you try and push out of your mind, but keep coming back?   Like, 'why don't we throw an entire idea, methodology and industry out, and do something different'?   Well you are not alone! I describe today's guest on the podcast as crazy - in a good way.   Listen in as Gordon Bedford mounts the case to relegate risk to the history books, and replace it with some...

STOP! If you haven't already, I suggest you head over to listen to Part 1 first , then come back for this one to finish it off.   This is the second part of the two-part interview with Brian Barrett, my Dad.  We started with the background to Dad leading his organisation to the very end, until it was amalgamated into a new council, and the challenges he faced leading when he had little control ove...

It's a great honour to interview my Dad, Brian Barrett this week, a leader who I think has plenty of insight to offer. This first part of the two-part interview, we cover off leading in an organisation you know will cease to exist - from which we can all take something away, including what NOT to do should you find yourself in that situation (actually, it has much a broader lesson). In today's epi...

Make your life easier - Subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher ! I feel that in my attempts to improve my own effectiveness, which hopefully translates into better health and safety outcomes, I have spent way more time trying to understand what's going on outside people (the workplace, the environment, the design of work), than on the inside of people, and our brains in particular. I'm not sure that make...

Make life easier for yourself.  Subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher!   Kobi Simmat tells it straight.  If you don't like feeling just a little bit uncomfortable about the ineffective status quo, probably best not to listen. ALTHOUGH....you must be ok with being a little uncomfortable, since that's the space where growth occurs.  And that's why you listen to this podcast.  So maybe this is just right f...

Make life easier for yourself.  Subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher !   Starkers (Naked).  You know what it feels like to be really open and honest? Well, you get 100% ME in this episode, come behind the curtain as I share a bit of general reflection, about podcasting, answers to common questions I get, and a little bit about how I'm improving the podcast moving forward.   In this chat, we cover: 2:10...

Peter Gahan leads the leading organisation on leadership in Australia, the Centre for Workplace Leadership .  He's also go a firm eye on the future, to support research, turning it in practice, for effective leadership to support work which is changing so quickly all around us.   In this chat, we cover: – The future of work (it's closer than you think) – What Peter thinks about leadership, includi...

Richard Coleman knows a thing or two about digital disruption.  He has put a number of practical and very cool digital technologies to good use for health and safety, and has his finger on the pulse with the broader digital landscape.   Make no mistake, digital disruption is happening, is only getting bigger & faster, and it creates great opportunity, or poses a great threat to current health and...

Peter Baines has seen some pretty tragic stuff in his time, and has learned a thing or two about leadership in challenging and disruptive environments. Listen in as Peter, from charity Hands Across the Water , shares with us what he has learned.  The biggest surprise for me was that these leadership lessons will apply to almost everyone, as work and life get more and more disrupted.  No tsunami re...

What do Dr David Borys and Animal, from the muppets, have in common?   Listen in as Dr David Borys , from RMIT University (amongst a few other places!) fill us in on the talk he is giving for the 2016 Wigglesworth Memorial Lecture, entitled Two windows to clarify the enigma that is health & safety PLUS a sneak peek at the 'intelligent risk management' workshop he is also running during the Convent...

The first time I've interviewed someone who has brought Lego into the conversation - now that's imagery I can understand! Listen in as Loren Murray, from Creative Works Group share with us her insights into how we can create a health and safety career worth chasing. In this chat, we cover: - How Loren fell out of the safety church, and what happened next (this has no analogy with actual falls inci...

Are you a story teller? No? It's not as childish as you might think.  Listen in as we hear from one of Australia's foremost safety story tellers, Dr Drew Rae, about the importance of stories in our professional practice.   In this chat we hear about: - good, and less good, story telling for safety, - drowning horses, - rocket ships - the fashion of safety, and - being curious ( not the first time...

Do you stop, and truly think about how your going, how effective you are, what's working, what's not, and what's got to change? Tim Allred , founder of Young Safety Professionals in Australia , shares his reflection on the value of this kind of reflection! Isn't that appropriate! In this chat we cover: - the start of the Young Safety Professionals group and the benefits of a peer community - the n...

Do you ever feel a bit dull, without much 'oomph', plodding rather than sprinting through your work? Listen in as I get SMASHED (in a good way!) by energy, ideas and actionable improvements from Ali Uren , the change-maker at  Kiikstart . We cover a lot of ground - from the courage to let go of what's not working, to personal risk assessments, through to getting dirty hands in the business plannin...

Alanna Ball felt a little lost in health and safety, she wanted to belong to a family, a tribe. There was no tribe for her, so she led others who were in a similar place to form a tribe: Women in Safety .  What a tribe! Join us in the interview for a great insight into the importance of a professional family or tribe, and the opportunity for you to leverage other work-families and work-tribes to d...

"Where shall I begin, your Majesty?" he asked.  "Begin at the beginning," the King said gravely, "and go-on until the end: then stop". Thanks Lewis Carroll, the King, and the White Rabbit who asked such a great question in the first place! Since this is episode ZERO (not that kind of zero...) of the Safety on Tap podcast, I thought it gentlemanly that I tell you a little about my WHY....and a litt...