Colin explains how you can set up a system to engage with your team in a positive way so there’s some accountability too. He also discusses the importance of consistently challenging the way things are done or completed within the business.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Do you hold any safety meeting at all? If not then you’re missing an opportunity to give excellent training and have people altogether so you can cover ALL parts of your business.
• When you’re holding a meeting have an agenda. Have people give their top 3 issues and keep a note of the things you’re covering and who’s accountable for which tasks so that the next meeting you can cover what has been done and what hasn’t.
• Ensure if a task isn't completed, keep it on the list until it is so it doesn’t get lost.
• Keep an open and honest environment so you can learn from what’s gone wrong to ensure it doesn’t happen again.
• Consistently challenge the way people do things and view things.
• Always get the reports and feedback from inspections that you’ve had to see how you can change things for the better.
• Talk about what training and development people need in order to progress and improve their own development.
• Keep up to date with legislation so that you can update your systems and processes to work best alongside new laws.

BEST MOMENTS

’Keep track of your tasks so they don’t get lost’

‘There’s loads of learnings when things go wrong’.

‘Things don’t always get solved there and then’.

‘Challenge your systems and procedures’

VALUABLE RESOURCES

The Interesting Health And Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/training-competency-creating-effective-plan-process/id1467771449?i=1000452692837 

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).

Welcome to Colins Latest Safety Short! Today we are going to discuss Fire Safety! Listen closely to this brief guide. Colin urges you to always seek advice from trained and qualified professionals but offers these tips as a fantastic place to start when discussing Fire safety within the workplace.

 

KEY TAKEAWAYS

 

Get a competent Fire risk assessment (carried out by appropriate personnel). This includes risk assessments specifically for fire safety, but also observations for future risks. This is almost always carried out by a trained professional or professional organisation with the correct certification to do so.

 

Look at the findings of the assessment! Issues such as sources of ignition (electricity, naked flame, heat sources) and fuel (dry materials like wood, foam and paper) for a fire or potential fire hazards

 

Clear guidance for your employees, making sure they understand the obvious and potentially hidden hazards within the workplace (including procedures and preventative measures, as well as redundancy for if/when a fire occurs).

 

Making sure that employees understand their roles when it comes to fire safety! This includes different roles, such as wardens and trained personnel who know how to correctly use fire extinguishers (surprisingly common for many people to not know!). Also, consider who and when certain personnel are required to contact each other and the specific circumstances and measures to ensure this happens.

 

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).  

 

Welcome to the award-winning Interesting Health & Safety Podcast!

In today's episode, Colin wants to talk about perception; Your perception of the workplace, then the perception that you then need to give to the people in the workplace (when considering workplace activities).

 

KEY TAKEAWAYS

As a manager or director, the way you view the plant/facility and machinery is very different to that of a staff member in charge of maintenance;

• A director sees the monetary value in machinery and its output in correlation to cost and profit. Whereas a Maintenance man will see a series of processes, materials, machines and productions (and all these require to keep the plant/facility running)
• If you’re an employee/operative, what you are doing is looking at the workplace as an opportunity to work and earn some money so you can live (and more!). It is also a social environment as well as a place of employment.

 

This same building and facility is viewed very differently by all members of staff. From a health and saftey perspective; you can’t look at the jobs/tasks and the risks/hazards with those same differences!

 

You need to ‘get down and dirty’ and start seeing these facilities, jobs, productions (etc) from the eyes of employees & maintenance as well as management; otherwise you have blindspots.

 

“What I am really saying is.. Don’t look at your workplace just through your eyes. Take some time to actually look at how other people perceive the workplace… talk to the people that are doing the job. Look at the risks, look at the hazards through their eyes”

-Colin Nottage.

 

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).  

 

“To truly understand failure in your organisation; you first must understand how your organisation reacts to failure”
-Sidney decker

 

The relationship between ‘risk in the business’ and ‘your business’. The risk belongs to the organisation, not the individual. Listen in how and why this the case!

 

“If you have an activity where there’s a chance that somebody could be seriously harmed or injured… Then the last thing you want to have is a control measure that expects that individual to make the final call on whether to do the job or not… You want a series of controls… checks and balances to make sure that the job is done in a way where you can interact with the risk; you can work along side it and it becomes part of the way you do the job”
-Colin Nottage

 

Remember to share with us your comments, reviews and opinions!

 

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).  

 

In this edition of the “award-winning” Interesting Health And Safety Podcast, Colin talks to Eric Ball, the man who runs the occupational health system for Park Health And Safety about the many projects he’s worked on, including heath and safety for the London Olympics 2012, HS2, Battersea Power Station and Thames Tideway.

In this second part of their two-part conversation, Eric and Colin talk about the importance of good designers, effective education around materials, the sometimes surprising factors that need to be considered when planning a project, and the importance of prevention.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Effective design can be a source of great education for both Eric’s team, and the designers themselves. Healthy collaboration leads to forward-thinking innovation, and can help to push the sector onward.

 

• Learning about the health benefits and detriments of chemicals and materials is an ever-evolving and ongoing pursuit. 

 

• Every single project has its own demands, its own drivers. It can be a simple case of location at times. Projects must be weighed and balanced around many different factors, even something as simple as transport links to and from the area.

 

• Many businesses see the introduction of occupational health as a “can of worms” that will cause huge disruption. But Eric points out that although this may be the case to an extent, it will pale in comparison to the scenarios that may develop down the line if not addressed early.

 

• The key to effective engagement is to make the engagement appealing to the teams personally. By benefitting them directly, and having a positive impact on their personal wellbeing, you can create a natural sense of engagement that proliferates outside of the strictures of business-ordered health and safety.

BEST MOMENTS

‘Designers are by their nature inquisitive and challenging’

’The healthiest way to build a tunnel is not to build a tunnel’

‘It’ll be nothing compared to the “can of worms” that will open on you if you don’t engage in legislative compliance’

’The more they do that, the more they become attuned to the things that happen in the workplace'

‘It’s the guys on the sharp end who are becoming the “police force”’

VALUABLE RESOURCES

The Interesting Health And Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/training-competency-creating-effective-plan-process/id1467771449?i=1000452692837 

Park Health And Safety - https://parkhs.co.uk/#home

Eric Ball LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-ball-582a2822/?originalSubdomain=uk

Eric Ball Park Health And Safety - https://parkhs.co.uk/team/eric-ball/

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).

In today's episode, listen in as Colin quickly talks about denying people the opportunity to voice their opinions, and why you should do your best not to do this.

Don’t get defensive when criticised, when issues are raised. Taking it personally and going in defensively will ensure you will not see any situation or scenario from any perspective other than your own.

Make your business safe, for people to talk out. You will only benefit from feedback.

 

Don’t Deny. Don’t defend. Don’t Delay

 

As always, get in touch and let Colin know your comments and feedback!

 

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).  

 

In this edition of the “award-winning” Interesting Health And Safety Podcast, Colin talks to Eric Ball, the man who runs the occupational health system for Park Health And Safety about the many projects he’s worked on, including heath and safety for the London Olympics 2012, HS2, Battersea Power Station and Thames Tideway.

In this first part of their two-part conversation, Eric and Colin talk about understanding the challenges of occupational hygiene, the business perception of occupational health, and the importance of introducing health and safety planning as early as possible on construction projects.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Eric is an occupational hygienist at heart, a job that began in construction around the Olympics, and which has kept him mainly below ground ever since. Eric’s specialist area is major civil projects and major construction projects.

 

• Occupational health on any large project needs to begin as early as possible. It is ultimately driven by the client, but must be considered as early as the planning stages.

 

• Occupational health can be seen as sometimes over complicated due to its many facets, and this can cause companies to be cautious of the practice. But actually it is relatively simple once you have the right people in place.

 

• When working with designers on projects, Eric and his team work to best practices. As he stresses agin, occupational health at the design stage can’t start soon enough.

 

• Essential planning in the early stages with Eric and his team can help to eliminate larger costs down the line. By correctly anticipating construction needs sooner rather than later, it can lead to less maintenance, as well as a reduced need for repairs.

BEST MOMENTS

‘I’ve really been spending most of my time below ground’

‘Occupational health is health of health and safety’

‘We’re talking about long-latency problems’

‘Once you get someone in who’s half competent, then it’s a fairly simple process’

‘Most projects have a big win’ 

VALUABLE RESOURCES

The Interesting Health And Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/training-competency-creating-effective-plan-process/id1467771449?i=1000452692837 

Park Health And Safety - https://parkhs.co.uk/#home

Eric Ball LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-ball-582a2822/?originalSubdomain=uk

Eric Ball Park Health And Safety - https://parkhs.co.uk/team/eric-ball/

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).

Happy New Year! Now everyone’s back to work, take the time to reengage with the workforce. Think about your objectives for the coming year, and make a plan so your goals come to fruition. Training and accreditation can help you move forward. 

 

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).  

 

If you can, take the time to rest over the holidays. If you’re at work, keep your foot on the ball; monitor any maintenance activities and make sure everything is safe for when everyone comes back in the New Year. 

 

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).  

 

What are you going to do when you get back from the New Year? Take time to reflect, get your people together and have a back to work meeting. Inspect the workplace and make sure everything is in order, then you can have a strong start to 2020. Have a great time over the holidays!

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).