There is an enormous amount of talk about new safety approaches, in theory, compared to implementation in practice. But implementation does exist, it does show promise, and it can be done at scale. My guests today are First Officer Bogomir Glavan and First Officer Nicholas Peterson from American Airlines Learning and Improvement Team. This team is hyper-generous, part of their DNA is to write papers, do presentations, and speak at conferences to share their work, in the hope that it does two thi...
Feb 14, 2022•1 hr•Ep. 193
All forward-thinking leaders are interested in strategy. But what, exactly, is the purpose of strategy? This is the first podcast out for 2022 so for new-release listeners, happy new year! This year I'm getting far more focussed and intentional to bring you insights from the coaching work I do with health and safety professionals, and I'll tell you why that’s like gold: it's bloody lonely doing our work. It doesn’t matter whether you are the frontline safety supervisor or the head of safety, I h...
Jan 27, 2022•12 min•Ep. 192
Let's talk about Linkedin, humanity, and being salesy. I am connected with tens of thousands of people, in some direct way. Whether that's someone who was seen me speak, been in a workshop, listened to my podcast, or connected on social media. All of those are one-degree of separation, there is a direct link between me and them, between me and you.
Dec 15, 2021•12 min
Jerry Muller wrote a phenomenal book called the Tyranny of Metrics, which he opens by saying "the title is not meant to convey the message that metrics are intrinsically tyrannical, but rather that they are frequently used in ways that are dysfunctional and oppressive". And that, by friends, is a fitting way to begin this awesome dialogue about safety indicators and metrics. Let's begin.
Nov 12, 2021•59 min
"Help me get people engaged". "No one is engaged with health and safety". "Engagement around here is pretty low". Requests like this and their variations are some of the most common things people come to me for help with. Health and safety have an engagement problem, but it's not limited to that. Gallup says only 36% of workers in the US are engaged at work. And no one agrees on how we define engagement in any case. What do we do?
Nov 02, 2021•12 min
Kym Bancroft is an organisational psychologist turned health and safety executive, who was the head of Health and Safety at Urban Utilities. Urban Utilities is a water and sewage utility supplying 1.4 million people with clean water and flushing toilets in South-East Queensland in Australia. With thousands of employees and contractors, a high risk work environment and network to build, operate and maintain, Kym led the health and safety transformation at Urban Utilities between 2017 and 2021....
Oct 07, 2021•55 min
This is my live keynote speech delivered at the Safeguard 2019 Conference. The theme of the conference was Dare to Disrupt. That was an idea which I respectfully disagreed with and explained why in the opening keynote when I encouraged the audience, and you, to go disrupt yourself.
Sep 30, 2021•44 min
I don't think this interview needs much introduction, except to say one thing: if you are inclined to turn off because the words innovation or entrepreneurialism seem too fluffy or not relevant to you, stick with this: you'll be surprised like I was. Here's today's guest, Liz Jackson:
Sep 22, 2021•42 min
I, like you, have been spending a lot of time in the same workplace for a while now, my home office. And yet despite the amount of time I spend here, it was only recently that something struck me when I saw things that had been there the whole time but hadn't recognised for what they are. My space, and probably yours, are filled with theatre props - the things which bring our professional performance to life.
Sep 10, 2021•18 min
Rory Gallagher is the Asia Pacific Director of the Behavioural Insights Team, and a founding member of it's parent organisation within the British Government. This work as always fascinated me, ever since I read the book Nudge, based on Nobel Prize winning work by Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler. Have you ever thought, 'well that person's response or behaviour or inion surprised me, because it didn't seem logical or rational?'. That curiosity is at the heart of this idea that heaps of governmen...
Sep 06, 2021•54 min
It's hard to focus on things that we can't see, that aren't visible to us. It doesn't mean they aren't there, it's just that they aren't visible to us. Having empathy for others, and appreciating that they have a perspective and experience which is 100% valid for them, can be a difficult thing to comprehend, let alone practice.
Aug 25, 2021•14 min
What's the risk when we use an ISO standard approach to health and safety? That we miss the point entirely. Decades of experience have revealed what happens when standards compliance and its activities become the goal, instead of the goals of actual health and actual safety the ISO standard was meant to enable. Oh, and by the way, we're going to blow the idea of new views of safety out of the water too. Today's partner in conversation Jeremy Scrivens sort of defies description, and definitely de...
Aug 18, 2021•50 min
"Tried it before, and it didn't work" These are the words that we have all said to dismiss something out of hand, to reject a very broad or general idea or approach or suggestion . We can choose our words better, which means everyone learns more and is more informed about our experience.
Aug 04, 2021•6 min
Brenton Harrison shared some thoughts publicly about the extremes of new views and traditional views of safety. Here's Brenton sharing his thoughts with you.
Jul 08, 2021•42 min
Does philosophy really have a place in work health and safety? Here’s what I discovered. My earlier rejection of philosophy taught me how important philosophy actually is a conscious way of living and a competent approach to professional practice. I might be wrong, but one thing philosophy does teach us, is that it’s worth getting curious about. I certainly have become a better professional because of it.
Jun 29, 2021•16 min
My guest today is the ever-humble Jo Doyle. Jo comes highly recommended to me, she has been on my potential guest list for years now. With many years experience in strategic organisational change and executive coaching, Covid created the impetus for Jo to gravitate back to her sweet spot and passion of being in Service of Well-being. She creates space for others to self-reflect, grow in awareness, and tap into their innate capability for healing towards freedom.
Jun 09, 2021•52 min
Am I a cook or a chef? It turns out that has nothing to do with what I wear, or whether I have a certificate, it comes down to one simple thing. And no, it's not a bad temper.
Apr 20, 2021•16 min
Human performance is not just focussed on humans. It is about how we try to improve ourselves at work. It's not just about health and safety. My guest today Diane Chadwick-Jones is the former Director, Human Performance for BP. She had an extensive career in BP, working in Belgium, Brazil and Egypt in operations and safety roles. She was instrumental in the refresh of the BP Values.
Mar 31, 2021•57 min
Three times this week, I have come across this challenge in health and safety leaders. Competent, intelligent, motivated health and safety leaders who want to make change. Who hold back, are held back, from taking the next step, making the next intention a reality, for the same reason. The words are different, but the cause is the same.
Mar 22, 2021•3 min
Listen in to hear how one of the thickest Scottish accents you'll ever hear is also one of the most effective communicators. Steve Harvey is a an operations-focused Health & Safety professional who is a proud pragmatist. He is a master of work insights and operational learning, obsessed about understanding the gap between work as imagined and work as done, and he has even featured in a documentary called 'Doing Safety Differently'. And he loves having a laugh! Here's Steve:...
Mar 19, 2021•48 min
What does a iPad, a 2B pencil, WISYWIG, and a microphone have in common? And how is that helpful for you as a leader? This episode is made possible by our mission of enabling better learning that improves performance in your organisation.
Mar 12, 2021•13 min
Today I'm chatting with Jason van Schie, organisation psychologist, founder of FlourishDX and co-host of the Psych Health and Safety podcast. I'm not pretending that there are any reins to hand over so to speak, but the reason why you've heard so many guests on my podcast speak to this broad topic is simple. This podcast is for leaders who want to grow themselves, like you, in order to drastically improve health and safety along the way. Psych health and safety is a professional domain most of u...
Mar 09, 2021•41 min
This is an awesome conversation. Real stories and experiences from a frontline HSE professional who is still learning with more than a decade's worth of it under his belt. We covered a lot, I learned a lot! None of this was planned, all Tim and I talked about before recording was just to share his story. Stick around for the takeaways at the end because this minimally planned and wide ranging conversation percolated some amazingly clear insights for us all.
Mar 04, 2021•42 min
Grenade throwers. You know them. (Real people, with metaphorical grenades) The people in your organisation who have a tendency, even a reputation to disrupt. They throw grenades because they object, challenge or undermine things publicly, in groups. And they throw grenades at a distance from the real issues, often under-informed, not engaged in any meaningful dialogue or constructive improvement.
Feb 26, 2021•7 min
The purpose of introducing anything new is NOT to have it perfect first time. In fact, the results you get might not even be great, just average, nothing to write home about. The ONE SINGLE UNIVERSAL purpose of introducing anything is to create the conditions so the right people say "yes, let's do that again". That's how starting something once turns into real change.
Feb 26, 2021•6 min
Mental health is important enough to need a strategic approach, not just tactics. In this wide ranging conversation, David Burroughs and I explore his deep experience in mental health strategy. David Burroughs is an experienced psychologist, with many years of consultancy and strategic leadership in the area of mental health and illness at work. And he spent an hour with you and I talking all about it.
Feb 19, 2021•53 min•Ep. 168
I am setting a goal to enable people like you to plan and implement 1000 learning teams in organisations just like yours, and this is your invitation to be part of it. Learning teams, as they are referred to in the context of health and safety, are both awesome and problematic. They are awesome because those of us who plan, facilitate, teach/coach/enable learning teams or anyone who has participated in them know their value.
Feb 09, 2021•8 min
This episode was difficult to create. What can we take from a year like 2020? What hope do we have for 2021? It turns out that the question becomes the answer, and the silver lining appears.
Jan 19, 2021•12 min
What does it mean if something is True But Useless at the same time? It happens more often than you think. This one started because I thought, wouldn't it be interesting to reflect on the most popular episodes from the past year? That could be interesting, right? The image on the thumbnail for this episode, which you can see if you visit safetyontap.com/ep165 , is a graph of the podcast downloads.
Dec 17, 2020•17 min
Here at Safety on Tap we're starting a new learning teams implementation case study group soon, and I'm looking for five people to join. If you have been thinking about getting learning teams started in your company, then we will make that happen if you are ready to start. It's called learning teams implementation, because that's what we do - not theory, no classroom - every week over 10 weeks we enable you to implement the necessary pieces to have a successful learning team. And it's called a C...
Dec 14, 2020•13 min
