Colin explains how you can set up a system to engage with your team in a positive way so there’s some accountability too. He also discusses the importance of consistently challenging the way things are done or completed within the business.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Do you hold any safety meeting at all? If not then you’re missing an opportunity to give excellent training and have people altogether so you can cover ALL parts of your business.
• When you’re holding a meeting have an agenda. Have people give their top 3 issues and keep a note of the things you’re covering and who’s accountable for which tasks so that the next meeting you can cover what has been done and what hasn’t.
• Ensure if a task isn't completed, keep it on the list until it is so it doesn’t get lost.
• Keep an open and honest environment so you can learn from what’s gone wrong to ensure it doesn’t happen again.
• Consistently challenge the way people do things and view things.
• Always get the reports and feedback from inspections that you’ve had to see how you can change things for the better.
• Talk about what training and development people need in order to progress and improve their own development.
• Keep up to date with legislation so that you can update your systems and processes to work best alongside new laws.

BEST MOMENTS

’Keep track of your tasks so they don’t get lost’

‘There’s loads of learnings when things go wrong’.

‘Things don’t always get solved there and then’.

‘Challenge your systems and procedures’

VALUABLE RESOURCES

The Interesting Health And Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/training-competency-creating-effective-plan-process/id1467771449?i=1000452692837 

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).