In a two part conversation, Colin talks to flight safety expert, Adam Johns, who with over a decade of experience in commercial aviation industry, has marked himself out as one of the world’s foremost specialists in people safety.

In this second instalment, Colin and Adam discuss a more collective approach to problem solving, and why the aviation industry may be in need of a complete reboot when it comes to safety regulations.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Aviation is an industry classed as high risk, and therefore it comes with a more restrictive and severe set of regulations when it comes to safety. Accidents were more proliferate to begin with, so this is not surprising.
• Policy can longer be built around aviation, based upon the concerns and failings of the past hundred years of its history. It has now reached a point where it is a uniformly safe industry, and requires new thinking.
• Safety failings in aviation are made more dramatic by the way they are presented in the media. It has forced the industry’s safety to grow faster than any other.
• We learn how to prevent, and how to consider the needs of people, not just by focusing on what went wrong, but what goes right.

BEST MOMENTS

‘Regulations on the safety side were developed as a result of accidents'

‘Imagery and metaphor is incredibly powerful’

‘We’ve had to grow up fast’

’There is an opportunity here to take stock of safety in our business’

VALUABLE RESOURCES

The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449  

Adam Johns LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamjohns730/

Adam Johns at Safety Differently - https://safetydifferently.com/contributors/

ABOUT THE HOST

Colin Nottage

‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’

This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.

He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.

Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.

Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.

He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).