Kay Yoder didn’t know what field she’d end up in when she started college, but she knew she wanted to help people. Two universities and a couple of degrees later, she found a career that used both her healthcare and engineering knowledge.

For the past four years, Kay Yoder has served as the Vice President of Environmental Health and Safety at Miami-based alcohol distributor Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits. There, she uses a simple yet effective strategy to communicate safety procedures: focusing on the “why” behind them.

“If the employee doesn't understand the ‘why,’ then to them, it's just something else you're telling them they have to do versus something they want to do,” Kay says in this episode of the No Accident podcast, presented by TRUCE.

Kay looks at safety as much more than being compliant. To her, safety is protecting assets, speaking the same language, and working toward a common goal of zero accidents.