Health and Safety Conversations

Do you or the workers feel comfortable speaking up about health and safety concerns?

Yes: I feel comfortable speaking up about health and safety concerns.

No: I do not feel comfortable speaking up about health and safety concerns.

The poll is up on LinkedIn. Feel free to have your say your say and leave a comment.

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This week on the conversation the amazing Bob Cummins joins the conversation in this weeks episode.

Bob Cummins is the CEO and Founder of SODAK Limited, whose goal is to challenge and improve much of the current entrenched thinking about how we live, work, lead and manage.

Bob has been studying and applying behavioural science since 2007 learning directly from some of theleading professors in Behavioural Science in the US.

Bob started his career in construction in the UK in 1989. Moving through engineering, site management, health and safety and several executive roles before leaving ‘normal’ work in 2011 in pursuit of making a

difference to other organisations by helping them apply the principles of behavioural science.

Bob founded Sodak limited, a behavioural design agency based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Sodak’s aim is to help people in business make safer, happier, less wasteful workplaces through behavioural design.

Bob is also the author of Behavioural Science for Business Health and Self, Behavioural Incident Analysis and has developed a number of tools to help people change theirs and other’s behaviours. Sodak work

with businesses in Europe, Canada and the US.

Check out our service and resources and sign up for our newsletter at www.sodak.co.uk and please connect on LinkedIn.

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Do you have access to all the training and resources you need to stay safe in the workplace?

• Yes: I have access to the training and resources I need to stay safe in the workplace.

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Welcoming back Clive and Brad to the conversation for a unique double act. Free flowing, unscripted and raw.

How good is it to just get knowledgable and experienced safety professionals who just want to chat?

If your up for a fireside chat this is the episode to listen to. From definitions, to psychology and sharing of experiences.

The longest pod to date, and with good reason. I hope you smile as much as I did when recording this episode.

Enjoy and learn.

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How often do you feel safe in your workplace?

a. Always

b.Most of the time

c. Sometime

d. Rarely

The poll is up on LinkedIn. Feel free to have your say your say and leave a comment.

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Doublly blessed this week to be joined by not one but two HOP professionals - The Dynamic Duo of Andy Baker and Matt Florio.

Andy started practicing and teaching Human & Organizational Performance (HOP) principles while working for one of the largest multinational industrial companies in the world. As an environmental health and safety leader of manufacturing, assembly and distribution facilities, she worked through the complexity of adopting HOP principles from the ground up.

In 2014, she was named the HOP leader for one of the company sectors. She taught HOP Fundamentals and Learning Teams around the US and helped develop and implement strategies to anchor the concepts in existing operating rhythms. She began extrapolating these strategies to a larger scale, and in 2015 became the HOP Senior Expert for the company’s 300+ multi-sector locations in Europe. In this position, she coached fatality and serious incident investigations while continuing to train and develop culture change strategies to help embed HOP principles into industrial day-to-day activities.

After hearing about HOP for almost a decade from his sister-in-law Andrea (Andy), Matt left his last role as a VP in the software/start-up world to join the HOP movement.

He has a background in education and training (both virtual and in-person) and experience as an executive in the software industry. His immediate focus is on finding ways we can share, teach, mentor, and coach on HOP concepts outside the safety space.

Thanks for listening. We have some great guests coming up in future pods so get ready to learn. Until next time, enjoy the rest of your week, and stay safe. https://plus.acast.com/s/health-and-safety-conversations.

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What are the most important health and safety issues in your workplace right now?

a. Physical hazards

b. Ergonomic hazards

c. Psychosocial hazards

d. Something else - please leave a comment

The poll is up on LinkedIn. Feel free to have your say your say and leave a comment.

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Dr Rowena Mobbs joins the conversation in this weeks episode. Topics covered includes her work in neurology, dementia, concussion, and CTE.

Dr Rowena Mobbs, neurologist at Macquarie University Hospital and Mater Hospital Sydney. She is Director of the Australian CTE Biobank.

She is an advocate for better concussion care and research in Australia, and sees patients with suspected CTE.

Dr Mobbs was the creator of the ConcussionBig5, an initiative highlighting the visible signs of head injury and you can find this at www.ConcussionBig5.au

You can find out more about the Australian CTE Biobank at www.CTEBiobank.org

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Flexible work arrangements

Realistic work targets

EAP

Poll is up on Linkedin. Have your say.

Feel free to leave your comments.

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Francisco Vaenzuela joins the conversation for episode 1 of Season Three. Francisco talks to us about his experience in the FIFO industry with great personal insights. A great way to start the new season.

Francisco Valenzuela has been working in the oil and gas sector since leaving high school in 1993. He worked locally doing pipeline work in southern Alberta starting out as a labourer and working his way up into a safety position in 2003. He completed his OH&S certificate and attained his CRSP (Canadian Registered Safety Professional) designation in 2011. Francisco started living the remote work lifestyle in 2010 and attributes many positive and negative life changes with this lifestyle. He currently works as a Safety Advisor at Imperial Oil's Kearl Oil Sands site. With his 20 years safety experience in the mining and oil and gas industry and lived experience in the FIFO lifestyle he brings real life perpectives on the emotional, mental, financial and personal challenges and opportunities of the FIFO lifestyle.

Founder and Chief Empowering Officer at FIFO4REAL.ca.

Living out the FIFO lifestyle for over 13 years Francisco shares having experienced the challenges of marriage, divorce, parenting, financial boom and bust cycles. With the message of "What would the me of today tell the me of yesterday about FIFO life" and how we can build out more resources and support for ourselves and our FIFO community.

Father, mentor, mental health advocate and boots on the ground FIFO worker.

Francisco shares his personal experience of living a fly in fly out work lifestyle. He will unpack some of the mental health challenges faced by workers and their employers as well as what can be done to help overcome these challenges from an individual and employer perspective.

Thanks for listening. We have some great guests coming up in future pods so get ready to learn. Until next time, enjoy the rest of your week, and stay safe. https://plus.acast.com/s/health-and-safety-conversations.

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