TW - talk of sensitive topics, including suicide, abduction. Profanity also may be used. Following on from a conversation over dinner at the EHS Congress in Berlin, John joins James to pick up where they left off - how can we take what we've learnt in Risk Management and apply it to running our households? And does it work the other way - can we apply what we learn in parenting to the workplace? How do we prepare our children for becoming adults? This is a cracking conversation absolutely jam pa...
Oct 16, 2024•1 hr 26 min•Season 1Ep. 230
With an exemplary career working with household brands including Netflix, Amazon and PepsiCo, Dr. Megan Tranter joins Peter to talk about how to reach the top of the safety tree with impact. In this episode, Megan and Peter discuss: Balancing a global position with academics and family life. The impact that being a woman has on career progression The difference between a mentor and a sponsor. Integrating safety into operations Understanding business context The impact of storytelling on elevatin...
Sep 19, 2024•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 229
Not to dwell on the past but....... Here's a conversation between James and Elisa Lynch 🍉 about a post that went pretty viral here on LinkedIn back in May. This was recorded on the day (we're on podcast publishing catch up! 😖) and the frustrations are live! The post itself was regarding a cut Hi Vis and the responding approach taken by the safety professional on site. In discussing their thoughts on the approach taken, James and Elisa touch on: The condescending, gender and bragging elements, ...
Aug 23, 2024•58 min•Season 1Ep. 228
Join James and Peter where they chat about society and community and its relationship with work and safety. They discuss mental health, sharing mistakes and whether or not we need more 'community' as well as where/how we can find it - if at all...... The question from one of our amazing listeners this week... Q: How can big organisations assist the companies who don't have proper safety management systems, particularly in countries within Africa and Asia? Answer includes: Introspection, paramete...
Aug 07, 2024•1 hr 21 min•Season 1Ep. 227
It's a mixed bag this week...... James and Peter discuss gamification and how in making the communication of safety fun, we can ingrain a stronger message. Also, what does it mean to work and how we can tie this to health and safety initiatives, plus a call to action: We're crowdsourcing problems! If you have a specific problem in the world of safety or risk management that you're trying to navigate/'hack' let us know. We can then use these as problem statements in any upcoming 'Hackathons' whic...
Jul 22, 2024•42 min•Season 1Ep. 226
We're not necessarily talking about the people, the books, the podcasts etc...... but what examples from real life experiences have we taken and adapted to use in our roles as safety professionals? What have we pulled from our hobbies and past times? Our quirky interests? (holla Pete and his torches!) We big time get into gamification and how we use it to communicate a message, as well as critical thinking and being advocates for just 'trying shit!" Enjoy.....
Jul 16, 2024•53 min•Season 1Ep. 225
Thank you to Dr. Andrew Sharman, author, Professor of Risk, Resilience and Safety Culture and CEO of RMS Switzerland, who joins us in this special live episode of Rebranding Safety. With James, Andrew talks about the success of the 2024 EHS Congress in Berlin, the new International Institute of Leadership and Safety Culture (IILSC) and the EHS congress coming to London in December 2024. Thanks again Andrew for joining us. Enjoy.....
Jun 21, 2024•11 min•Season 1Ep. 224
James is joined by the wonderful Juliana Bley, psychologist, founder of SafetyLab and Ted X speaker. They discuss the importance of relationships within learning, and having strategies to apply the content you consume; "having the best technology with no educational plan surrounding it is merely entertainment". Juliana also talks about the Art of Hosting, a global community practising participatory leadership, collaborative practices, dialogue and more. Thank you, Juliana, for joining us on the ...
Jun 21, 2024•27 min•Season 1Ep. 223
A massive thank you to Jean-Christophe who joins us live from the EHS Congress in Berlin. Jean-Christophe is a distinguished researcher working at the National Institute for the Industrial Environment and Risks. His workshop, "How new is the 'new view' in safety?" blew us away at the Congress and he discusses this here today with James. Enjoy.....
Jun 20, 2024•20 min•Season 1Ep. 222
We're so excited to publish this conversation between James and Sidney Dekker - professor, author, film maker, founder of the Safety Science Innovation Lab amongst many other accolades, Sidney gives his insights into the gap between 'safety as done' and 'safety as imagined', the 'tribalism' surrounding different safety approaches, and James somehow shoe-horns an conversation about Star Wars in there with no intended end point! Thank you to Sidney and to the organisers at the EHS Congress in Berl...
Jun 19, 2024•27 min•Season 1Ep. 221
A massive thank you to Phil Clarke, Head of H&S at Care UK, who joins us on the podcast this week. Phil and James discuss fire safety in the care sector and the unique challenges that come with it, incident investigations and the challenges in making changes, the importance of community, building trust in your people, your systems and your buildings, competence vs confidence, and to educate or to train - that is the question! They also dive in to a question put forward by one of our amazing ...
Jun 12, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 220
Join James and Peter in looking at those times as safety professionals, we didn't get it right........
May 16, 2024•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 219
In this episode, James and Peter reflect on what they've been up to, including The Health and Safety Event and the BFFF Conference, as well as answering a question from one of our listeners. This weeks discussion point from Terry Considine is... "I want more accountability and that starts with Occupational Safety and Health professionals, whilst we're in a field of 'come as you wish' so long as you a) Don't give me any bad news, and b) Are cheap as chips. More regulation of H&S advisors but ...
May 16, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 220
Disclaimer: Profanity used throughout this episode Amy is the Founder of The Safe Tribe, a membership community for safety professionals, giving them a safe space to share ideas and gain confidence within the industry. With James, Amy talks about the reputation that the safety profession still has, safety being a scapegoat, the reasons we should focus on core skills, and why she wanted to set up The Safe Tribe, all of this along with discussing her experiences as an employee as well as a consult...
Feb 13, 2024•1 hr 26 min•Season 1Ep. 218
Disclaimer - Profanity used throughout this video The survey results are in...... Thanks to everyone that completed our "Safety Professional - are you ok?" survey. The results were thought provoking, and in light of Blue Monday just passed (15th Jan) we share some of our thoughts here. We discuss the state of mental health surrounding the safety profession, how our sleep is affected, the challenges that exist relative to workload, loneliness and isolation, uncertainty, and prioritising our own a...
Jan 30, 2024•1 hr 26 min•Season 1Ep. 217
Thank you to Chris who joins us for a second time on Rebranding Safety. Chris is an award-winning author and co-founder of Clearfield Group, guiding leaders through change and complexity. We catch up on the last 2 years and the landscape of complexity since his book 'Meltdown', co-authored by Andras Tilcsik, was released in 2018. We discuss leadership and 'the power of not knowing', implementing a culture and how it changes over time, being open and real about the levels of engagement and partic...
Jan 16, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 216
Disclaimer - Profanity used throughout this podcast. As safety professionals, we find it abhorrent that a person can lose their life at work, but as a society, do we accept that it’s OK for a person to die at work in the name of progress - either economically, socially, technologically? We give our thoughts on this harrowing subject, citing figures from the ILO and HSE reports. We discuss modern slavery, forever chemicals, as well as the issues surrounding SSIP schemes. And, as a profession, who...
Jan 02, 2024•54 min•Season 1Ep. 215
Disclaimer - Profanity used throughout this podcast. It's been a mammoth year at Rebranding Safety - here's a little round up. We talk about LinkedIn royalty, Hackathons, not having the time to do new research, and obviously...... the Risk Fluent guidebook "How to Rebrand Safety Part 1". Look out for more great content coming your way in 2024!
Dec 12, 2023•50 min•Season 1Ep. 214
Absolutely buzzing to introduce our new Senior Partner, Peter, who you'll all know from his quarterly co-host segment last year and his extensive networking in and around safety. James and Peter have know each other for a couple of years now, and in this episode, they discuss everything they're excited about for the future of Risk Fluent. Enjoy...
Aug 15, 2023•37 min•Season 1Ep. 213
Check out the latest at Rebranding Safety, what's coming up, our new content structure and a massive thank you to all of our viewers and listeners for getting us to where we are now! Enjoy...
Aug 01, 2023•18 min•Season 1Ep. 212
(TW: some talk of suicidal thoughts) Steven is a safety and mental well-being speaker, as well as owner, MD and life coach at SkLifeCoachUK. Today he joins James, sharing the story of the accident he had at work and how it has affected his life and contributed to what he does today. They discuss the issues surrounding the reporting of the incident, emergency preparedness, mental health including PTSD, RAMS, CDM regs, competence and communication. Thanks so much, Steve, for chatting to James and ...
Jul 25, 2023•1 hr 29 min•Season 1Ep. 211
We're back with a banger! The wonderful Sunit Atwal, QHSE Manager at CBRE (GWS) EMEA, joins James for a chat about confidence, social anxieties, imposter syndrome, dressing for the part and how important networking is for building a successful career. Thanks Sunit for this awesome conversation. Enjoy.
Jul 11, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 210
Tom joins us for this final installment of our psychological safety series. We get into real detail about Work as Done vs Work as Imagined, interpersonal relationships, social contracts and who the experts are when it comes to the hazards of work. We also answer some of your questions – is feeling safe to speak up the only measure of psychological safety? And, how can we encourage psychological safety between those from similar backgrounds and also between those from different backgrounds at the...
Apr 24, 2023•1 hr 20 min•Season 1Ep. 208
A little update on what work we've been doing over the last few months. Risk Fluent have been doing a lot of transformational work with Safety Teams recently so I touch on that, my thoughts on the LinkedIn space right now, changes to the fire regulations and how that seems to be affecting demand, the challenges with Professional Indemnity insurance within the fire industry, influencer marketing and what safety work we should actually be doing. Enjoy.
Apr 03, 2023•30 min•Season 1Ep. 207
Tom Geraghty is back with us this week hosting his second episode, continuing with our series on psychological safety. We discuss what we think psychological safety looks like in reality, taking the the academia and seeing how it translates within our businesses and our lives. We talk about the importance of motivation and clarity, the power and privilege surrounding it, human error, the knock on effects of banter, and tonnes more. Thanks so much again to Tom for another amazing and insightful c...
Feb 27, 2023•1 hr 24 min•Season 1Ep. 206
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 list goes on, he’s a very well-respected professional in our industry. We discuss the safety profess...
Feb 20, 2023•1 hr 22 min•Season 1Ep. 205
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.
Feb 13, 2023•29 min•Season 1Ep. 204
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 within the field and examples of where things have gone wrong due to a lack of psychological safety. So...
Jan 30, 2023•1 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 203
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 management process in place to make sure building owners/managers know exactly what’s required so that ...
Jan 22, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 202
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 pointless paperwork. Enjoy.
Jan 16, 2023•23 min•Season 1Ep. 201
