Making boards better at safety & wellbeing leadership, with Ed Corbett

Today's Guest:

Ed Corbett is the Head of Human Factors & Organisational Performance at the Health & Safety Laboratory.

Ed joins me to discuss the importance of getting health and safety leadership right, different ways to improve health and safety culture and how health and safety interventions can affect organizations.

We talk about leadership and well-being in the workplace, how to measure the competency and delivery in health and safety leadership on a board and the issues with current well-being trends in organisations.

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You'll learn:

• How to encourage board members to be more proactive in their health and safety.
• How to improve leadership at a senior level.
• How to measure competency and delivery in health and safety leadership in a board.
• Different ways to improve health and safety culture.
• The effect of health and safety interventions.
• How to be proactive instead of reactive in your mental health prevention.

Resources:

• What risk type are you? Geoff Trickey on using psychology to understand risk
• The Risk Type Compass

In this episode, we talk about:

[2:03] Why getting health and safety leadership right is so important.

[4:10] How to influence board members to be more proactive in their health and safety.

[10:20] What affects how committed CEOs are to long-term health and safety.

[14:09] How to measure the health and safety competency of a board.

[18:02] Effective ways to improve health and safety culture.

[20:50] Different psychological approaches to improving health and safety.

[23:16] How health and safety interventions can affect organizations.

[26:39] The nuanced nature of health and safety.

[28:22] Corporate governance and leadership in HSE.

[30:44] The PhD. Ed is working on around employee wellbeing and health.

[33:42] Well-being trends in organizations.

[40:53] Mental health prevention.

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Quotables:

• 34:53 - "At the moment it does feel like there's more focus on things like general wellbeing promotion like encouraging people to do more exercise, eat healthily and those kinds of things and that's all good, that's all fine and also very important, but when it comes down to better management of some of the really big factors that might be causing people stress like unachievable workloads and these kinds of things I'm not sure whether we're yet focusing enough on making sure we're really investing in those preventative measures that will impact at that level."
• 39:57 - "Appreciating people's different circumstances, there can be an assumption that work and career progress is really important to everybody, some people do just want to have a job and have that flexibility in their job for others it's a core patriot of their life and who they are and they're really keen on career progression."

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