In this week's show, Colin talks to Steven Shorrock, editor of the Hindsight Magazine and the senior specialist of safety and human factors for Eurocontrol, supporting Air Navigation Service Providers throughout Europe with human factors, safety investigation, systems thinking and practice.

Steven and Colin discuss learning from Work As Done, and how analysing work in high pressure areas of the business sector has led to a greater understanding of how this practice impacts safety as a whole.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Hindsight is a democratised platform, featuring input and articles from those at the sharp end of the business, which provides a far more valuable set of insights.
• Air traffic levels have dropped to around 50% of their former operations, but many do not realise that the pandemic has seen system-wide effects, including reduced revenue, which impacts resourcing.
• Skill-fade has become a challenge, as skills do fade from mis-use, especially in the aviation industry. This has led to an increase in off-site training, including simulations.
• Wellbeing presents a unique challenge, especially in human factors and ergonomics. It is constantly trying to find a balancing act between wellbeing, safety, productivity and efficiency.

 BEST MOMENTS

'In some cases it's like you're on a permanent night shift'

'There are issues of wellbeing which in some cases are intangible'

'The safety risks remain, regardless of traffic'

'The workload and the risk are not positively correlated'

 VALUABLE RESOURCES

The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449      

Steven Shorrock LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/steveshorrock/?originalSubdomain=fr

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).