Colin talks about the three reasons why you should always focus upon what you gain from a health and safety perspective, instead of what you lose. 

Far too often in business, the focus lies on the wrong areas of implementation, and in this week’s show, Colin explains why.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Target zero and similar systems drive people to silence. Why would we encourage an element of business that prevents people from speaking out?
• When you introduce blame into your culture, and into the way you rectify an issue, it forces people to be even quieter.
• Get out there into the workplace immediately and see how the work is being done. You’re sure to be surprised, either positively or negatively, by the reality of your own workplace.

BEST MOMENTS

‘Good health and safety performance isn’t in the lack of accidents. It’s the presence of control’

’The measure that you use in order to get that result, doesn’t have to be the obvious one’

’The minute you start blaming is the minute you stop learning’  

VALUABLE RESOURCES

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

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).