Health and Safety Conversations

Question of the Week 18

What is the minimum qualification a Safety Professional should have? No poll this week as there are too many options if you add overseas qualifications in the mix. Leave your comments on the question that is up on LinkedIn Thanks for listening. We have some great guests coming up in future pods so get ready to learn. Until next time, enjoy the rest of your week, and stay safe. https://plus.acast.com/s/health-and-safety-conversations.
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Craig Salter

This week on the conversation Craig Salter, highly sought after speaker, director of Action OHS Consulting and founder of Safety Champion Software joins us.Craig speaks of his time in safety and the unusual pathway that led to a career in safety, Safety Champion Software, how COVID affected businesses in Victoria and his time at the Australian Institute of Sport.Craig is the perpetual nice guy who deserves the success he has achieved.I hope you enjoy listening to Craig as much as I did.Craig is a driven entrepreneur who has dedicated his career to making health and safety accessible and easier for people of all backgrounds and expertise levels. His journey began in the high-performance industry, where he quickly gained valuable experience and knowledge. With a desire to make a greater impact, Craig transitioned to the safety industry, working in-house for various large national companies. During this time, he identified a gap in the market for consulting services that were purpose-driven and tailored to small and medium-sized businesses. In 2011, he founded Action OHS Consulting, which focuses on providing meaningful and relevant advice to these businesses. Craig's commitment to improving health and safety practices led him to create Safety Champion Software in 2015. This innovative software was designed to meet the unique needs of smaller businesses and make safety compliance more accessible and user-friendly. As of January 2023, Safety Champion has scaled rapidly, supporting over 1,500 clients. Both Action OHS Consulting and Safety Champion Software have grown significantly, employing over 40 people who share Craig's passion for improving health and safety practices. With his leadership and expertise, Craig continues to drive these companies forward, making safety more accessible and easier for businesses of all sizes. LINKS:https://www.linkedin.com/in/saltercraig/www.actionohs.com.auwww.safetychampion.com.auhttps://au.linkedin.com/company/safety-champion-softwarehttp://www.linkedin.com/company/action-ohs-consulting/https://www.bcorporation.net/en-us/find-a-b-corp/company/safety-champion-software Thanks for listening. We have some great guests coming up in future pods so get ready to learn. Until next time, enjoy the rest of your week, and stay safe. https://plus.acast.com/s/health-and-safety-conversations.
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Question of the Week 17

How do you measure safety? No poll this week, just leave your comments on the question that is now up on LinkedIn. Thanks for listening. We have some great guests coming up in future pods so get ready to learn. Until next time, enjoy the rest of your week, and stay safe. https://plus.acast.com/s/health-and-safety-conversations.
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Sara Pazell

The marvellous Sara Pazell joins us in this weeks conversation which is all about ergonomics and human factors. One of the least understood areas for most in safety Sara walks us through the maze of misconceptions to teach us about the benefits of ergonomics, defines what it really is, and how it vastly under utilised in workplaces particularly in the design phase.I learned from our conversation, I know you will too. One of the longest conversations so far and for good reason.Sara Pazell, BAppSci(OT), MBA, PhD, CPESara is the principal work design strategist and managing director for ViVA health at work, leveraging design in all industries (industrial and office work settings). She is here to help when you ask: How to design when humans are part of the system (work, product, technology, or environment) and what is the user experience? What if we did things a little differently? What can we dream that can become a new reality? She helps build capacity to innovate to generate some good stories to tell! Sara consults, teaches, and researches in human factors, human-centred design, and organisational strategy. Sara is affiliated with five Australian universities to advance these ideas for graduate teaching and research. She is also a podcast rabble-rouser with the WhyWork Podcast crew, examining the boundaries of human experiences at work, how this is tested by case law, and the way in which work can be better designed. Sara is part of the international advisory committee for the WELL Movement concept v2 (International Well Building Institute [IWBI]) and their associated project-based committees and an expert faculty member for Australia’s only certified Wellness WiseTM Practitioner training program. Sara was the committee chair for the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society of Australia’s Good Work Design position paper and supporting resources. Sara is a series co-editor of the Workplace Insights book series by Taylor & Francis and a book co-editor of the Ergonomic Insights book. Her other passions include instructing yoga, Thai massage, and sports & strength conditioning. Thanks for listening. We have some great guests coming up in future pods so get ready to learn. Until next time, enjoy the rest of your week, and stay safe. https://plus.acast.com/s/health-and-safety-conversations.
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Question of the Week 16

Do the costs of attending safety conferences limit your attendance / learning? The poll is up on LinkedIn, have your say and be heard. Leave a comment if you want to explain further. Thanks for listening. We have some great guests coming up in future pods so get ready to learn. Until next time, enjoy the rest of your week, and stay safe. https://plus.acast.com/s/health-and-safety-conversations.
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Brad Green

In this episode Brad Green talks to us about his journey in safety. It's a unique story and an honor that Brad shared this moving account of how safety became his passion and his lifes work. Brad also challenges some existing paradigms and talks to us about his beliefs regarding safety in the workplace.One of the true gentlemen of safety, who genuinely walks the walk as well as talking the talk. The conversation felt like it was over in a flash. Still could have chatted for another hour. I know you will love to hear this conversation as much as I had being involved in it.rad Green is an HSSE Professional, Health and Safety Adjunct Professor, father, husband, softball coach, thought provoker, and an advocate for all employees' mental and physical well-being.Brad primarily emphasizes humanizing the HSSE profession, shifting how organizations view their workers, modifying organizations’ response to failure, and promoting his mantra of learning and improving through the lens of curiosity.Brad encourages organizations to react restoratively rather than retributively whenever an unintended deviation from an expected outcome. Brad is currently the Manager of HSSE for an oil and gas company.Brad has 17 years of HSSE experience in the United States. He holds a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in Occupational Safety and Health from Southeastern Oklahoma State University.Brad is a Certified Safety Professional (CSP), Occupational Hygiene and Safety Technician (OHST), and Construction Health and Safety Technician (CHST).Brad is well versed in all aspects of HSSE with demonstrated experience in developing, implementing, monitoring, consulting, coordinating, instructing, coaching, and continually improving HSSE and PSM programs and processes.Brad has worked in various organizations, including chemical manufacturing, heavy construction, oil & gas, and space exploration.Links:LinkedIn: https://buff.ly/40i6BIW Thanks for listening. We have some great guests coming up in future pods so get ready to learn. Until next time, enjoy the rest of your week, and stay safe. https://plus.acast.com/s/health-and-safety-conversations.
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Question of the Week 15

Are you satisfied with the control measures in place at your workplace to control dust? The poll is up on LinkedIn, have your say and be heard. Leave a comment if you want to explain further. Thanks for listening. We have some great guests coming up in future pods so get ready to learn. Until next time, enjoy the rest of your week, and stay safe. https://plus.acast.com/s/health-and-safety-conversations.
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Ken Bloch

Joining us for this weeks conversation is the highly respected and regarded Ken Bloch. Ken speaks to us about process safety, gives us some insights into what he has learned during his extensive time in the process safety field and reminds us of the consequences when things go wrong. The Bhopal disaster happened nearly 40 years ago yet it is rarely spoken about in safety circles. Thousands of deaths, many more people left with serious long term injuries and illnesses this is the very human face of catastrophic failures in a safety system. Kenneth Bloch is a senior EHS professional who specializes in petrochemical industry incident investigation and failure analysis. He has nearly 40 years of experience in plant maintenance, Process Safety Management, technical, and operations roles. He speaks regularly at AFPM, API, and AIChE process safety symposiums about experiences that help prevent recurring process safety failures throughout the manufacturing industry. Ken is the author of the book Rethinking Bhopal which uses modern references to chronicle the sequence of events that led to history's worst industrial disaster. He graduated with honors from Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, with an Environmental Science Degree in 1988. Links: UCC Report: https://buff.ly/3FOq5gc Kalelkar white paper: https://buff.ly/3FWjOPB LinkedIn: https://buff.ly/40tORKI Order Rethinking Bhopal (all royalties go to the Process Safety Heritage Scholarship in Science and Engineering at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas): https://buff.ly/3TLPdtO Thanks for listening. We have some great guests coming up in future pods so get ready to learn. Until next time, enjoy the rest of your week, and stay safe. https://plus.acast.com/s/health-and-safety-conversations.
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