On this episode of No Accident, Justin Overstreet, the Vice President of Safety at Wildcat Oil Tools, shares about how he uses his background in sales and operations to look at safety from a unique perspective.

Justin began his career working for his dad’s oilfield service company. There, he was tasked with duties on both the safety and business side of things, kickstarting his atypical yet well-rounded career path.

He discusses why it’s OK to work outside traditional safety rules, why sending local safety reps into the field can be counterintuitive and why he prefers to use the term “safety-always culture” rather than “safety-first culture.”

“If your company is not a safety company like you're not going out and providing safety services … safety should not be first in your company — making a profit should be first,” he says. “By [instead] saying, ‘safety always,’ what you're saying is ‘We also understand that in order for us to continue being in business, we've got to make sure that our employees and those people that we affect and touch are protected.’”