The Human Factor in HSE

In this episode, Bjørn is guested by Philip Rawlinson, Head of HSEQ at Emrill.Listen to the episode to gain new inspiring insights!

In this episode, Bjørn is guested by Shaun Carvalho, Vice President - Safety, Shawmut Design and Construction.Shaun shares his perspectives on the importance of continued learning and how he believes that solving why people get hurt is one of the ultimate puzzles to solve in general. Moreover, he comments on the fact that OSHA came about 50 years ago in the States and for the first 25 to 30 years showed some significant improvements in the workplace, but since the turn of the century, we've s...

“All accidents can be related to a lack of leadership, a lack ofcommunication, and a lack of mental focus.”In this episode Bjørn is guested by Roger New, EHS & Facilities Manager and newly facilitated HSE Mental Focus Specialist. You can hear him elaborate on the above statement or listen to other great insights in this new episode of “The Human Factor in HSE”. Once again, thank you so much for sharing your great story and insightful approaches, Roger!Roger has a long and impressive caree...

In this episode Bjørn is guested by Michael Zalle, founder and CEO at The Yellow Bird Project.In this episode Michael shows us how each and every HSE professional has something unique and valuable to contribute to the field, and how this is the reason for the diversity of perspectives and skills that makes the HSE community so strong and effective in promoting safety and environmental responsibility.In the podcast, Michael elaborates on The Yellow Bird Project and how it utilises this s...

In this episode Bjørn is guested by Jeremy Heath, HSE Mental Focus Specialist, Senior Risk Consultant, HUB International.In this episode Jeremy shares his powerful story and covers a broad range of interesting and inspiring topics! For example, why don't we s HSE professionals not necessarily always see the good that we do? And why is it important to remind ourselves of the good changes and impacts we have on the field and people's lives in general. Jeremy here uses a personal story to f...

In this episode Bjørn is guested by Aparajithan Vetriselvan, HSE Mental Focus Specialist, Divisional HSE Manager, Serco, United Arab Emirates.In this episode, Aparajithan explains his journey from starting in HSE in India to now being a Divisional HSE Manager in Dubai and how he believes that sector has skyrocketed to being more advanced in the span of the last 10 years.From his point of view listening to the employees of the company is key for success. Simply listening like you have never li...

In this episode Bjørn is guested by Tash Baksh, Senior Manager Quality, Health, Safety, Security, Environmental and Operational Excellence at Kiwa, Houston, Texas.Tash shares his journey through HSE and his perspective on the current problem of companies not pivoting away from the “checklist-approach”.Tash takes us through his experience of how, back in the days, HSE was much more about inspection type activities, where he would check to verify things were done and use checklists all the time...

In this episode Bjørn is guested by Kazimierz Kempa, Environment Health Safety Lead and HSE Mental Focus Specialist. The episode covers Kazimierz’s passion for helping people and HSE, how he went from being a graduate from University of Technology to go into the field being brand new in the HSE community, and how he enjoys to always challenge himself to make sure he's developing! Kazimierz also shares his perspective on how the all-time issue is Top Management and how importan...

In this episode Bjørn is guested by Dan Crawford, EdD, HSE Mental Focus Specialist, and Environmental Health Safety Specialist at Nabors Industries.The episode covers Dan’s fast progress in the HSE sector and his stunning path from being new to HSE 18 months ago to now being part of Nabors’ Performance Improvement Team (PIT crew) where he and his team take a holistic and new kind of approach to safety in the field of Energy Production by doing thorough assessments, looking at both climate, cu...

In this episode Bjørn is guested by Jeremy Nauert, International HSE Director, Norsk Hydro. The episode covers Jeremy's passion for HSE work, how he actually only incidentally ended up in HSE 30 years ago by going from biological research to safety work, how he believes that HSE work requires a deep interest in the wellbeing of other people, and much more.Jeremy also covers how HSE for him has been an interesting challenge from a fundamental perspective to impact people's lives and try to mak...