Safety on Tap

There is an elephant in my office. Its been there for ages, thought its only in the past few years that I've actually seen it. You have one, maybe more, where you work too. It's time to talk about it.

Regular listeners will know me for passionately spruiking and putting into practice a few key concepts. Today you'll hear my conversation with Peter. Peter works in a pretty large organisation which have a very diverse risk profile, and some pretty high risk aspects.

AmThere is lots of talk about AI. As in, artificial intelligence. Tech is all the rage, and we are interfacing more and more directly with artificial intelligence - just think about the predictive text on your phone.

But a much older kind of AI hold huge promise for health and safety practice, if only more people knew about it. Appreciate Inquiry is the topic of discussion today, and I really enjoyed this conversation with Amanda Clements on what it is, and how it has enabled both of us to be better professionals. Amanda is a senior health and safety professional in a large road services construction and maintenance business. She's quite out of the box, as you will discover.

This is a short episode on a big P - a principle to help you improve. It's a journey, a tension, between trying to know the world, and constructing the unknowable. It will make sense, stick with me.

My guest today is the inimitable and supremely articulate Traci Carse. Traci is the Occupational Psychologist at Fire and Rescue NSW, one of the world's largest urban fire and rescue services. Traci has significant experience in applying psychology in the workplace through the design and delivery of mental health, resilience & wellbeing assessments and interventions across a range of work settings. Traci is an Adjunct Fellow of Macquarie University, a Board Approved Supervisor, a Certified Gallup Strengths Coach, and recently held a position on the National Committee, College of Organisational Psychologists , as lead for the APS Workplace Excellence Awards.

One of the worst things to do whilst you are crossing the street in downtown Ho Chi Minh City, amongst the cars and mostly motorbikes and tuk-tuks screaming past in all directions, is to stop, to stand still. Crossing the street in downtown Ho Chi Minh City. That's the analogy I used to explain what happens immediately before disruption, in my opening keynote address to the New Zealand Safeguard Conference in 2019. So the metaphorical opposite of this is to be in motion ourselves. Not stuck, stopped, stalled or stale .

Today's guest is Kathryn McEwan an organisational psychologist, executive coach and mediator with more than 30 years consulting experience across all industry sectors. Her contribution to the profession has been recognised through the award of 'Fellow' by the Australian Psychological Society and the College of Organisational Psychologists. She has a special interest in workplace resilience and has authored three books on resilience at work as well as led development of the R@W Toolkit. She lectures, supervises students, is a Board member and more. And today is cutting through the BS about resilience.

In addition to our regular podcasts, this is a little series which brings you the candidates for the 2020  Australian Institute of Health and Safety board elections. 

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
 
Let me know what you think about these - also if you post a comment or a question on safetyontap.com, you 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 which brings you the candidates for the 2020  Australian Institute of Health and Safety board elections. 

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
 
Let me know what you think about these - also if you post a comment or a question on safetyontap.com, you 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 which brings you the candidates for the 2020 Australian Institute of Health and Safety board elections. 

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
 
Let me know what you think about these - also if you post a comment or a question on safetyontap.com, you get direct access to each candidate so they can respond to your comment or question.