In this week’s show, Colin talks to Environmental Health Officer, Phil Clarke of Nuffield Health, a firm proponent of a more holistic approach to safety, and whose responsibilities see him daily overseeing the wellbeing of gyms, hospitals, and almost 15,000 workers across around 400 sites nationwide.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Health and safety is too often categorised as simple risk assessment, when the reality is much broader and all-encompassing, stretching from ground-level concerns, all the way through to the core drivers and motivations of a workforce.
• By surrounding yourself with the best team you can find, you increase the potential of your effectiveness. Empowering others grows your capabilities.
• Quarantine has demonstrated the effectiveness of remote meetings, and allowed businesses to see that much time can be saved by employing technologies in order to increase communication capabilities.
• Development of our people, and health and wellbeing in general, should be planned well ahead, with firm goals set in attainable increments But we must also attempt to visualise the long-term future of what we hope to achieve.

BEST MOMENTS

‘If you empower people, they’ll be able to make your decisions locally’

‘We need to get key people involved in understanding health and safety’

‘You need to have short term strategy, but you need the long game goals, too’

‘It’s not a them-and-us situation. We’re all in this together'

VALUABLE RESOURCES

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

Nuffield Health - https://www.nuffieldhealth.com

Phil Clarke LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/phillipjclarke/?originalSubdomain=uk

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).