The Interesting Health And Safety Podcast has become a part of the Safety FM Network, and Colin couldn’t be more delighted to tell you all about how this incredible event has happened, and what the station’s purpose is.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Safety FM is a collective of specially curated shows, all based around Safety, that acts as a one stop station for those in the know, and those who want to know more!
• The goal of such a valuable resource is to help spread the safety message, globally. This relies on each contributor putting out the best possible content - 24/7!
• Being a contributor to Safety FM also allows each host to continually develop and learn in order to become even better.

BEST MOMENTS

’We’re striving to get some of the greatest speakers and guests that we can find'

‘We’re looking to get the safety message out!’

‘I’m a better individual, because of the people I’ve spoken with'

VALUABLE RESOURCES

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

Safety FM - https://safetyfm.com

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).

How can we please our customers more? 

That’s the question being asked today by Colin, as he examines the ways in which we can not just surpass the expectations of those in the industry, but disrupt the way things are done, and it starts with improving ourselves.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Satisfying the needs of our customers is not just a goal, but a requirement, but it requires us as professionals to be adaptable.
• Success is all very well, but we must never lose sight of the fact that we are first and foremost trying to stop people being hurt. It’s a simple, yet crucial mission.
• Improving our physical health leads to an improvement in mental wellbeing. By doing this, we improve our creativity, our imagination, and our ability to surpass expectations.

BEST MOMENTS

‘He encourages his people to manage on the edge of chaos’

‘Efficiency can limit flexibility’

‘Gain as much information as you can and flood yourself with it'

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).

This week, Colin talks to safety consultant, Mark Stallard, the founder and operator of Safety Horizon, one of the leading providers of health and safety training, supporting businesses across the South-West of England.

Colin and Mark discuss the importance of “selling” health and safety instead of policing the concept, moving back into normality after the effects of the pandemic and what that means for safety in general, and how to be the most effective leader you can be.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• We can engage people to do more in safety is we “sell” instead of “police”. If we sell the benefits, then people will actively try to adhere, going above and beyond to be the best.
• As we move back into normality, it’s useful to examine each of our processes, and drop the ones that make no sense. There areopportunities for efficiency everywhere. We must seek them out.
• The people at the sharp end of the business are acutely aware of all of the safety risks, and how they can be improved. A good leader will consult and investigate with them effectively, instead of leading blindly.
• Checks and balances can help when it comes to metrics and measurement, but these processes must also be refined in order to reach the essence of what really matters. There can be far too much extraneous material when it comes to measures.

BEST MOMENTS

‘It’s all about decision-making and how you can influence people’

‘We’ll adapt, we’ll modify, because that’s what we do. We’re professionals and we’re leaders in our field’

‘Coaching and mentoring is going to be important, moving forward, as we evolve’

‘Let’s focus on the key stuff. It’s getting that dialogue. The more people that talk about it, the more chance of getting some improvement'

VALUABLE RESOURCES

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

Safety Horizon - https://www.safetyhorizonsw.com

Mark Stallard LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/markrstallard/?originalSubdomain=uk

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).

Improving and developing is a continual, ongoing process. No one ever starts at perfection. In this week’s show, Colin talks about the importance of perception when it comes to not just our goals, but our starting points.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Performance and improvement are exactly that - they are about continually striving to become better. Everything is relative.
• What happened yesterday isn’t always important. The best way to realign and develop is to mark where you are today, and move forwards.
• Don’t strive for perfection. Strive instead for incremental, ongoing improvements. You will fail if you believe that you have to be perfect every day.

BEST MOMENTS

‘We often judge ourselves on where we’d like to be, rather than where we are’

‘Today is your new starting point’

‘If you can strive for that, then you’ll be going a long way towards the results you want to achieve’

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).

This time, Colin talks to Graham Wailes, one of the foremost proponents of safety in the workplace, and a man whose rich and varied career has seen him assigned to many roles and many responsibilities.

Graham talks about his career, the highlights of his time in the field, the many lessons learned, and how he envisions safety going forward.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Safety figures can often be driven by “scorecard pressure” instead of real positive forms of impact. We must see past box-ticking exercises and look for opportunities for real change.
• Going from impossible to possible is a state of mind. Apply positive thinking, surround yourself with empowering influences, focus on your goal, and anything is achievable.
• Whatever KPIs we ask people to adopt, it must be underpinned by a desire to change, in positive terms, the way that business is done.
• As leaders, we must seek to change the very perception of safety. We can achieve this if we spend time in the environment in which we ask our workers to operate. We can only manage the things we monitor.

BEST MOMENTS

‘It’s all quantity-driven, with no qualitative element to it'

’People needed to take a tiny step from it being impossible to possible'

’The people who do the hazardous activities aren’t encouraged to think much about it at all’

’What gets monitored gets managed'

VALUABLE RESOURCES

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

Graham Wailes LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/graham-wailes-b0897b41/?originalSubdomain=uk

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).

Taking inspiration from the philosophy of Bruce Lee, Colin reflects upon the importance of forgiveness, especially when it comes to honest mistakes.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• If someone in our business makes an honest mistake, how do we deal with it? We must ask ourselves how our response affects their outlook.
• By instilling a culture of openness and honesty, we create a work environment where people will be far more open about telling you how things really work.

BEST MOMENTS

‘Mistakes are always forgivable if one has the courage to admit them’

‘Reflect about how you react when mistakes are made'

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).

After making some personal changes in his own life, Colin reflects upon not just the importance of discipline and routine in our lives, but the revitalising, empowering effects it can provide in both business and life.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• By installing new routines in our lives, it gives the purpose behind these disciplines added meaning.  
• Setting small, achievable, incremental goals in life can provide us with quick-fix rewards that only add to our sense of wellbeing and achievement. 
• Goal-setting and routines can impact our business life in equally beneficial ways. By structuring our days around goals and routine, we drastically raise our productivity levels. 

BEST MOMENTS

‘Discipline and routine has reignited my interest in getting fit and healthy’ 

‘I want to become the best version of me that I can be' 

‘Getting discipline, getting routine - for me it’s fundamental' 

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). 

This week, Colin talks to marathon swimmer and public speaker, Ed Williams, a man who constantly rises to extreme physical challenges in order to achieve incredible feats. 

Ed and Colin discuss the mindset needed in order to achieve such accomplishments, how mental preparation is equally as important as physical, and how these valuable lessons can be applied to all areas of life and business. 

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Mental resilience is key when engaging in extreme sports such as marathon swimming. Circumstances beyond our control are routine, and arise at random. The great ones learn to come back if they fail. 
• Stepping out side of our comfort zones, and putting ourselves into the path of new possibilities, opens up a whole new world of challenges and opportunities. 
• The creativity and resources in our minds are the best source of guidance when it comes to traversing issues and barriers in business and life. 
• There are always risks, both physical and mental, in everything we do. Extreme sports contain more risks than other pursuits. But these risks can always be mitigated by careful preparation. 

BEST MOMENTS

‘You can’t control all circumstances’ 

‘Making sure you’re in a good headspace is very important’ 

‘When the unexpected happens, it’s exactly the same as swimming the channel’ 

‘It’s described as the Mount Everest of the swimming world' 

VALUABLE RESOURCES

www.eliteswimmingacademy.co.uk

Ed Williams - https://www.edwardwilliams.org.uk

Ed Wiliams LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/edward-williams-72096427/?originalSubdomain=uk 

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). 

We all like the empowerment that comes from receiving positive feedback, but we can often lose sight of the fact that we are sometimes in the position to provide this feeling in return. In this week’s show, Colin discusses why we should always look for opportunities to give praise.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Positive feedback is very inspiring, and can spur us on to do better. But we must seek to return this feedback where possible, as it can have the same effect on others.
• By ensuring that we return the feedback back into the business, we create a much more positive environment, and improve our business on a fundamental level.

BEST MOMENTS

‘You’re a little bit like the Parkinson of the health and safety world…'

‘If you can start to spend more time positively with people in the business, you’re going to be in a much better place as a business’

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).

Andy White, a Lecturer of Health & Safety at Victoria University in New Zealand, joins Colin on the show today to discuss the importance of diversity in approach, why the subject of health and safety is far more exciting than people realise, and how to make sure we're learning instead of blaming.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• There are differing opinions about how safety should be approached in the sector, right now. The most important thing is that the conversations are being held.
• Working in the health and safety sector means that you can become part of every discipline in an organisation. For that reason, it is a far more diverse and fascinating pursuit than many realise.
• It’s easy to drop into the blame culture, and look past the lessons and learnings in favour of apportioning blame. We do well to pause and reflect on each situation as it occurs.
• Procedures and method statements are far better devised when created “on the ground” with the teams who will be working with them. They can instantly communicate any restrictions that may hamper their ability to work, or add insights where needed.

BEST MOMENTS

‘It only takes someone to start thinking differently for people to start engaging with it’

‘What everyone is striving for right now is to be acknowledged’

’There’s great opportunities for research, there’s great opportunities for innovation’

‘Learning, rather than blaming, is so fundamental'

VALUABLE RESOURCES

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

Andy White LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/andy-white-11203023/?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).