This week, Colin talks to Nippin Anand, the founder of Novellus Solutions, dedicated to facilitating learning events with the view to promote innovation across safety-critical industries.

Nippin talks to Colin about the importance of finding the best solutions in the world of safety, as well as why perspective and inclusivity are driving safety forward.

 KEY TAKEAWAYS

• It is vital to give our workers a voice. A business grows and thrives through collaboration and insight. If we fail to give our workers the chance to be heard, we are doing our businesses a disservice in the long run.
• Perspective is everything in terms of truly understanding others, but it can also be a challenging thing to achieve.
• When any decision is made in business, it is always the result of careful consideration and planning. We must take this into account when they are actioned. We must trust that others have given this action their consideration.
• We must seek to find different ways of gleaning information from people when things go wrong, and use these information harvesting strategies to make processes and systems better.

 BEST MOMENTS

'It's great be in a sector where you can talk to people'

'Reason is the way to understand the world'

'I'm a huge fan of embracing different perspectives'

'By unpacking differences, we can progress further'

 VALUABLE RESOURCES

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

Novellus Solutions - https://novellus.solutions/about/

Nippin Anand LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nippin-anand/?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).