Safety on Tap

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I've taken a bit of a break from creating new podcast episodes, and as I come back to you with this episode, I started reflecting on what happens when you're gone.

Hey, it's Andrew, and this is Safety on Tap.

Since you're listening in, you must be a leader wanting to grow yourself and drastically improve health and safety along the way. Welcome to you, you're in the right place. If this is your first time listening in, thanks for joining us and well done for trying something different to improve! And of course welcome back to all of you wonderful regular listeners.

I've been gone from new podcast production for a few months. It was a break I didn't think I would need to take decided to take and it got me thinking about what it means for me to be present for you, what it might mean for being absent, and the parallels with health and safety practice.

One of the questions I frequently encourage the professionals I coach to ask the people who they seek to serve, is 'what does good service look and sound like in practice?'

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In addition to our regular podcasts, this is a little series that brings you the candidates for the 2022 Australian Institute of Health and Safety Board elections.

Why am I doing these? Take a listen and I'll explain.

We've given each candidate only 10 minutes to convince you they are worthy to serve members of the AIHS. To get more info, including detailed profiles of all election candidates, visit aihs.org.au

If you have a question or a comment for a candidate, post a comment down below and you'll get direct access to each candidate so they can respond to your comment or question

In addition to our regular podcasts, this is a little series that brings you the candidates for the 2022 Australian Institute of Health and Safety Board elections.

Why am I doing these? Take a listen and I'll explain.

We've given each candidate only 10 minutes to convince you they are worthy to serve members of the AIHS. To get more info, including detailed profiles of all election candidates, visit aihs.org.au

If you have a question or a comment for a candidate, post a comment down below and you'll get direct access to each candidate so they can respond to your comment or question

In addition to our regular podcasts, this is a little series that brings you the candidates for the 2022 Australian Institute of Health and Safety Board elections.

Why am I doing these? Take a listen and I'll explain.

We've given each candidate only 10 minutes to convince you they are worthy to serve members of the AIHS. To get more info, including detailed profiles of all election candidates, visit aihs.org.au

If you have a question or a comment for a candidate, post a comment down below and you'll get direct access to each candidate so they can respond to your comment or question

In addition to our regular podcasts, this is a little series that brings you the candidates for the 2022 Australian Institute of Health and Safety Board elections.

Why am I doing these? Take a listen and I'll explain.

We've given each candidate only 10 minutes to convince you they are worthy to serve members of the AIHS. To get more info, including detailed profiles of all election candidates, visit aihs.org.au

If you have a question or a comment for a candidate, post a comment down below and you'll get direct access to each candidate so they can respond to your comment or question

In addition to our regular podcasts, this is a little series that brings you the candidates for the 2022 Australian Institute of Health and Safety Board elections.

Why am I doing these? Take a listen and I'll explain.

We've given each candidate only 10 minutes to convince you they are worthy to serve members of the AIHS. To get more info, including detailed profiles of all election candidates, visit aihs.org.au

If you have a question or a comment for a candidate, post a comment down below and you'll get direct access to each candidate so they can respond to your comment or question

"Being in search of a beautiful question can lead to a new sense of purpose and direction. A beautiful question is one that challenges assumptions, considers new possibilities, and serves as a catalyst for action and change. Crafting and engaging with such beautiful questions is like an art. Like other art forms, it takes practice, and requires learning from practice. When practiced well, artful inquiry can lead to transformative learning and innovative change".

Those beautiful words you hear in the introduction are from Nancy Southern, reflecting what it takes to frame effective inquiry, based on the insights from Warren Berger's 2014 book A Beautiful Question.

Inspired by that, this episode is a wonderful combination for me. A past guest, who is curious, humble, and super interesting, combined with no structure to the podcast episode whatsoever apart from curious questions. You'll remember Ron Gantt from episode 146. Ron and I wanted to catch up, and this is what we talked about. For some of you, knowing the podcast topic and how the guest fits the topic is important for a podcast to be worth listening to. Sometimes, as Southern and Berger hint at, not knowing and trying to ask better more beautiful questions is a wonderful and productive way to learn.

I hope you enjoy this conversation with Ron Gantt, even if none of us know where it's heading until we get there.

Here's Ron:

Hey it's Andrew, and this is Safety on Tap!

On the 13th of May 2022 I had the extraordinary experience of spending a few hours in a virtual event with Safety on Tap listeners from around the world to celebrate 200 episodes of the Safety on Tap podcast.

This is a podcast, but its more than that, it's a community, and I wanted to celebrate with you.

We spent weeks getting your feedback on favourite episodes, most impactful lessons, questions for guests coming back and combing through years of feedback and emails you've been kind enough to send me.

This is the recording of that live event, if you couldn't make it I'm sorry to have missed you, but hope you feel just as much a part of this community.

We had a few technical issues with the recording in the first few minutes, so I'll catch everyone up on how it all unfolded.

We recorded the event in my home studio, which is in Kaurna country in South Australia. We had guests joining us from all over the world, and we paid our respects to the traditional custodians of those lands and to elders past, present and emerging.

I was chuffed to have previous guest and friend of the show Amanda Clements join as my co-host for the event.

The event was in FIVE main parts:

1. First up I shared a few reflections on the beginning of Safety on Tap

2. Next, we created some time and space for the live audience members to connect with each other. I'll tell you more about that in a few minutes.

3. Next, we lined up some rapid interviews with previous podcast guests based on your favourites and your questions.

4. After that, despite my protests, Amanda insisted that she would turn the mic around and interview me with questions sent in by you, and

5. Finally, we put a handful of real life everyday listeners just like you in the spotlight, to hear their lessons, reflections and insights from 200 episodes of Safety on Tap.

There's only so much we could do in two hours, and we had so many past guests in the audience that if we spoke to all of them we'd have been there all day! Plus many more who sent their well wishes but couldn't make it. So, massive shout out to Tim Allred, Cam Stevens, Sue Bahn, Patrick Hudson, Todd Conklin, John Green, David Borys, Sal McMahon, Kersty Christensen, Andy White, Cam Warren, Clive Lloyd, Mark Stipic and my one and only, past guest and Dad, Brian Barrett.

We co-designed the event for and with you, the listener, combining the three big goals of a Chief Connector like me: to connect you with new ideas, to connect you with each other, and to connect you with your better future self. Learning, and taking action to improve. This was not a webinar so the chat was free and open, and we had the audience talking to each other in the chat and asking questions of previous guests - no permission required, just simple and open learning through dialogue and reflection, it was amazing.

If you were there, I hope this helps reinforce your learning. If you weren't, I'm sorry you couldn't be with us, I hope this is the next best thing.

his is a cheeky episode, halfway between episode 199 and episode 200, with two really short messages for you - an invitation and a request.

First, I want you to be a part of episode 200!

In exactly the same way that phones are only as good as having people to talk to, a team is only a team because of who is part of it, and roads only exist because cars needed something to drive on, a podcast is only a podcast because of you, the listener!

I should say listeners, plural, since there are thousands of you all over the globe. What better way to celebrate the 200th Safety on Tap podcast episode, than to get together, in realtime, so we can connect and learn and grow as a community?!