This time, Colin is joined by Ron Gantt, owner and operator of Reflect Consulting Group and the vice-president of SCM Safety, providing safety and health consulting and training to a wide variety of organisations on topics ranging from safety management and leadership, system safety, human performance improvement, and regulatory compliance.

Ron discusses the importance of establishing a working environment that makes people flourish, as well as the positive benefits of drift, and how we can better align our business goals to create harmony.

 KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Safety professionals must seek to define their roles in terms of what it truly means to society, and how it benefits society. If this ethos can be better communicated, then it will be more interesting to people.
• Many different pressures are put upon may different workers in differing ways. This can lead to friction and a more diverse set of goals. It’s important for management to step back and not just mediate, but facilitate, aligning goals to ensure we are running more smoothly and as a team.
• Drift is often seen as a negative thing, but we need to alter our perspective. We need to understand that people change the way things operate because they seek to improve things.
• We need to make it easier for people to do things the right way, and difficult for people to do things in the wrong way. 

BEST MOMENTS

‘We always have a conception of what’s happening in our workplace. I help them see a little bit more of what’s going on on the ground floor’

‘Improving the world is thing that a lot of companies are into, and if we can align health and safety more firmly, it’ll be more interesting’

‘We have to think of this as a living thing. Think of it as a doctor giving a prescription to a patient…'

‘If we better identify what we’re tryin to achieve, then it helps you think outside the box'

 VALUABLE RESOURCES

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

Ron Gantt LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ron-gantt-7a1b7741/

Ron Gantt at Safety Differently - https://safetydifferently.com/author/rongantt/

SCM Safety - http://www.scm-safety.com/team/ron-gantt-m-eng-csp-arm-cet/

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).