Are we s*** at safety?

Today's Guest:

Here's another of our safety roundtable sessions where we discuss people's perceptions of safety and how safety has changed in recent years.

We talk about different areas of safety that can be improved on, how the UK's safety performance compares to other European countries, and why the UK is often seen as a leader in health and safety.

We also discuss how teamwork affects safety outcomes, how to keep managers consistent with their safety practices, and the need to look at macro aspects as well as micro aspects when tackling safety issues.

https://safetyroundtable.co.uk/

You'll learn:

• Areas of safety that can be improved.
• How and why people's perception of safety differs.
• Why the UK is seen as a leader in health and safety.
• How UK safety performance compares to other European countries.
• How to align safety strategies with the management of a company.
• How to keep people consistent with their safety practices.

Resources:

• SHP
• HSE
• ESENER
• IOSH Managing Safely Course
• The Safety Roundtable
• Slip Safety Services

In this episode, we talk about:

[4:15] How safety professionals react to the idea that we're poor at safety.

[06:37] Evidence that we're bad at safety.

[08:52] Areas we can improve in slips, trips and falls.

[10:28] Data that shows safety in the UK workplace has been continuously improving.

[13:20] Network Rail payouts related to slips, trips and falls.

[16:30] How people's perception of safety differs.

[21:03] Why the UK is seen as a leader in health and safety.

[22:29] The need for businesses to have safety as a priority.

[25:50] How UK safety performance compares to other European countries.

[31:25] The need to look at macro aspects as well as micro aspects of safety.

[40:04] The Sliptember campaign tackling the misconceptions around slips.

[42:08] How to improve senior management's training and get managers placed on the IOSH Managing Safely Course.

[46:03] How teamwork affects safety outcomes.

[48:43] How to keep managers consistent with their safety practices after they complete training courses.

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Quotables:

• 38:21 - "It's almost like you've got to be a bit of a politician, and I'm not a politician in any way but it's that kind of approach, that more inquisitive, collaborative conversation."
• 47:05 - "The two biggest things for an organisation to improve is communication and teamwork and that can on out be achieved by everybody within that company understanding the whole aspect of what we do, and the dangers and actually the consequences of if we don't do it we're going to hurt somebody and that is the last thing that we would like."

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