Rebranding Safety

Rebranding Safety

by James MacPherson

Season 1

The importance of reporting incidents - Rebranding Safety with Steven Kirby

(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 sharing your story. Enjoy...

Rebranding Safety with Sunit Atwal - The power of networking and selling confidence

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.

Rebranding Safety with Tom Geraghty - 'Work as Done' vs 'Work as Imagined'

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 same time? Thanks so much to Tom for joining us for this series over the last few months – it’s been both a blast and valuable at the same time. If you want to check out the work Tom is doing, check out his details below. Otherwise, enjoy this episode peeps.

Rebranding Safety - Diary Episode 3

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.

Rebranding Safety with Tom Geraghty - Psychological Safety in practise

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 conversation. Enjoy.

Rebranding Safety with Steve Harris - Bringing risk management practises into the world of safety

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 profession in general and it’s perception, mature risk management, zero harm, the sharing of information, big corporations vs SMEs, the nature of trade associations, and loads more. Thanks again Steve. Absolutely cracking chat. Enjoy.

Rebranding Safety - 2022 Round-up

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.

Rebranding Safety with Tom Geraghty - What is Psychological Safety?

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 get a cuppa and get stuck in, can't wait to bring you the rest of this series. Enjoy.

Rebranding Safety - Fire Safety (England) Regulations with Matt Hodges-Long

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 everything is kept up to date. There are some resources listed below. These sites really are the best for breaking down this stuff so please do use those and get in touch if you need help. Enjoy…

How to Rebrand Safety - At the PASMA Conference 2022

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.

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