Safety on Tap

Andrew Barrett | Growing leaders | Drastically improving health & safety•safetyontap.com

The Safety on Tap podcast is for leaders (yes, that's you!) wanting to grow themselves and drastically improve health and safety along the way. We bring you free-flowing ideas, perspectives and stories from interviews with only the most interesting people - to help you take positive, effective and rewarding action. Nice!

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Ep015: Being starkers (behind the curtain) with Andrew Barrett

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 I confess - Podcasting wasn't in my plan 3: 12 The magic of podcasting (you'll be surprised with what I t...

Sep 18, 2016•28 min

Ep014 Crystal-ball gazing into the future workplace, with Peter Gahan

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, including a simple and understandable definition of leadership to help us improve. – Some of the disruptive th...

Aug 19, 2016•36 min

Ep012 Digital disruption to make your head explode, with Richard Coleman

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 safety approaches - Richard invites us to choose opportunity. In this chat, we cover: – What we mea...

Aug 10, 2016•35 min

Ep007 - Leading in challenging environments, with Peter Baines from Hands Across the Water

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 required. In this chat, we cover: – Where Peter cut his teeth as a forensic police officer, identifying ...

Aug 05, 2016•36 min

Ep006 - Architecture, the blues, the muppets, and safety with Dr David Borys

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 Convention. In this chat, we cover: - The connection with David and Animal the muppet (no, I'm not callin...

Jul 29, 2016•51 min

Ep005 - Falling out of the safety church and what came after, with Loren Murray

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 incidents…) - Her key points from the upcoming Young Safety Professionals panel at the National Safety C...

Jul 21, 2016•41 min

Ep004 - Effective story telling for better safety, with Drew Rae from Griffith University

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 that's come up on this podcast! ) Now let’s get to know each other! Connect with Safety on Tap on Linke...

Jul 16, 2016•37 min

Ep003 - The value of reflection (not reflective....) with Tim Allred from Young Safety Professionals

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 natural tendency for younger people to ask WHY - exciting young speakers at the upcoming 2016 Nationa...

Jun 29, 2016•42 min

Ep002 - A seriously crazy mindset, with Ali Uren from Kiikstart

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 planning process and creating delightful experiences for our customers. If you only take a pinch of value fr...

Jun 19, 2016•35 min

Ep001 - Leading a tribe, with Alanna Ball from Women in Safety

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 drastically improve health and safety. We also get two FREE slices of conference-goodness, from the th...

Jun 19, 2016•53 min

Ep000: The beginning of Safety on Tap, with Andrew Barrett

"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 little bit more about me. Towards the end I also share two short-but-great interviews, which I recorded a...

Jun 16, 2016•31 min

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