Over the past few months, businesses have worked tirelessly to make the environments safer for everyone. There may even be new controls and procedures in place. In this week’s show, Colin talks about how we can use questions to ensure that the workplace remains a safe and secure place for everyone.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Are the distancing measures that we have implemented, still being adhered to? Are the touch-points and sanitation devices still being maintained and cleaned? We cannot afford to be complacent.
• Masks aren’t a new concept in the workplace. They have been providing respiratory protection for years. But now that masks are more prevalent, are we ensuring their use in other areas of the workplace?
• We owe it to each other to keep our environments safe, clean, and acceptable for others, if not ourselves. We have a responsibility to society, to do all we can do stop the virus if we can.

BEST MOMENTS

‘Okay, you’ve put new controls in place, but how are they working? How effective are they?’

‘People need to maintain the discipline that you’re looking for'

’That must be the cleanest keyboard you’ve ever had!'

VALUABLE RESOURCES

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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).