John Horne serves as the Vice President of Safety and Health at Nutrien, the world’s largest provider of crop inputs and services. He originally planned to become an environmental engineer, but during his second semester at East Tennessee State University, he took a human ecology course that was part of the environmental health and safety program — and got pulled in.

After more than 14 years in the industry, John has learned how to effectively spearhead safety efforts at a major company. In this episode of the No Accident podcast presented by TRUCE, he discusses the value of keeping safety in the foreground, maintaining a culture of care where everyone’s concerns are listened to and finding a balance between quality, efficiency and safety.

“Our purpose is to make sure that, in everything we do, we do it safely,” John says. “We do it with integrity, but we also do it from the lens that we want to make sure that we're doing our part to make the world a better place.”