This week, Colin talks to Moni Hogg, a health and safety consultant, and Safety Differently leader based in New Zealand, about the revolutionary ways in which she is empowering workers on the front lines by allowing them to develop their own systems and processes, and how by taking small steps towards change, we can begin to see the possibilities of real progress.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Openness, honesty and trust are the pillars upon which a business becomes ethically safe. By creating transparency, we empower and enable all.
• By giving the power to the people at the front end of business, and allowing them to write their own systems and processes, we empower them to take responsibility, and to have some skin in the game when it comes to safety.
• When operational management take an incremental step they are able to see what is possible. Nine times out of ten, change is implemented soon afterwards.
• Bureaucracy tends to snowball once it begins, and can overwhelm the process of working safely. We must strip away the unnecessary elements and focus on what matters.

BEST MOMENTS

'It's stepping beyond the fear, and having a go!'

'I'm safety born and bred'

'What does it look like - to create a safety framework around that?'

'We need to create a level playing field and a partnership ethos'

VALUABLE RESOURCES

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

Moni Hogg Twitter - https://twitter.com/monihogg?lang=en

Moni Hogg LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/moni-hogg-4a55012b/?originalSubdomain=nz

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).