The Safeti Podcast - Connecting Health and Safety

There’s been loads of debate on numerous forums and blogs regarding the NEBOSH and NCRQ Health & Safety course offerings.

If you are thinking of a career or progressing in Health, Safety and Environment, you might find this review valuable.

Having completed both the NEBOSH General Certificate and the NCRQ Diploma, I can shed light on my own experience with both routes.

Discussion and debate rumbles on about which is the best option. Though the question you should ask is ‘Which is the best option for me?’.

It feels like a good time to pitch in given NCRQ’s recent claims on Twitter. They are reputedly now the most popular Health & Safety Diploma course provider in the UK (2017)….. NCRQ Tweet

The gauntlet has clearly been laid down by NCRQ. The ‘Which Course?’ question  has become even more intriguing for those wanting to complete an IOSH-recognised Health & Safety course.

NEBOSH has been clearly dominant for a very long period of time, in terms of both popularity and recognition.

However, it appears that the new kid on the block has made a significant impact within 3 years of introduction. We will look at the reasons why this might be the case.

We won’t look at the NVQ route as I don’t have direct experience myself and would not like to make assumptions. That said, it may be a reasonable option for those who are already established on their HSE career path.

Now, let’s look deeper into the potential reasons behind this apparent changing of the guard……

In this episode, we take a look at the challenges of H&S for small businesses. We chat to the very knowledgeable Carl Mannion CMIOSH MCIOB of Better Safety. Carl reveals what he has learnt in the past year since venturing out to build a consultancy. This two-part series will give you a realistic snapshot of Health & Safety regulation and service provision within a rapidly changing UK economy.

In this Episode, we talk about the danger of chasing the ‘next big thing’. We also talk about the rise of convenience HSE services and the changing landscape of training & learning. This insight into H&S for small businesses will be valuable for business owners & operators and HSE professionals alike.

OSHCR Website Link to the Occupational Safety & Health Consultants Register (OSHCR) that was mentioned in the show

Better Safety  Carl Mannion’s consultancy website providing HSE Services

Carl Mannion  You can contact Carl via Linkedin as discussed during the podcast

Richard: It’s time to go and pick up the second half of our call with Carl Mannion of better safety. Where we look at how health and safety in his view is failing smaller businesses. Moving on then Carl talking about more generally that the feelings in for smaller businesses in the economy and in terms of health and safety. We have mentioned in previous discussion about whilst the health and safety fraternity may be focusing on certain hot topics of the day and we do have a tendency to do that and everybody jumps on the bandwagon. We tend to forget about the fact we are failing on basic safety, basic health principles in the workplace. Would you have an opinion on that?

Carl: I think it’s an accurate reflection if I was honest and one of the hot topics at the moment and I actually agree with this hot topic that needs to be raised is mental health. Specifically in instruction and there is a huge drive towards stamping out this sort of egotistical patriarchal. You know the guy doesn’t get sick. The guy doesn’t get mental health problems. He just cracks on and does his job. Which is complete nonsense of course. Because mental health can affect any gender and affect anyone at any time in their career and I think it’s good that there is dialogue about that. I think it’s good that there’s a lot of people talking about it in some respects. However I think that we are also diverting an awful lot of attention and energy into something which yes affects people. But I also feel that there’s a lot of people not doing the very basic safety as well as very basic health topics correctly. Such as not erecting a scaffold correctly. Not footing a ladder. if we talk about health, not wearing PPE when they’re dealing with dust and fumes or p

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In this episode, we take a look at the challenges of H&S within small businesses. We chat to the very knowledgeable Carl Mannion CMIOSH MCIOB of Better Safety. Carl reveals what he has learnt in the past year since venturing out on his own.

This two-part series will give you a realistic snapshot of Health & Safety regulation and service provision within a rapidly changing economy. In this Episode, we look at the evolution of the UK economy and it’s impact on H&S. Is it possible  to embed health and safety for small businesses? Carl also shares his view on the challenges of finding competent advice.

It will be valuable for business owners & operators and HSE professionals alike.

Please let us know if you found the Safeti Podcast useful by leaving us a comment at the bottom of the page!

You can read through the entire podcast here Safeti Podcast with Carl Mannion Part 1 Transcript

Welcome back to the Safeti podcast. We’re now onto our second episode. As my voiceover guy has just said, I’m your host Richard Collins. The voice you would have just before was that of today’s guest Carl Mannion. Carl has very kindly come on the show with us to share how he strongly believes that health and safety both as an industry and as a system in the UK is actually failing smaller businesses and also of course to give us his viewpoint on how he feels this could be changed. Carl doesn’t pull his punches. He’s going to give us a very open and honest account of his experiences since opening his own consultancy business just over a year ago. This is really what the Safeti podcast was set out to do. Get you into the nitty-gritty of the industry and regardless of where you are in the world, I’m confident that you’ll be able to relate to a lot of what is said in this conversation. It was certainly very interesti

In this episode, we take a look at the challenges of H&S within small businesses. We chat to the very knowledgeable Carl Mannion CMIOSH MCIOB of Better Safety. Carl reveals what he has learnt in the past year since venturing out on his own.

This two-part series will give you a realistic snapshot of Health & Safety regulation and service provision within a rapidly changing economy. In this Episode, we look at the evolution of the UK economy and it’s impact on H&S. Is it possible  to embed H&S into the business startup process? Carl also shares his view on the challenges of finding competent advice.

It will be valuable for business owners & operators and HSE professionals alike.

Please let us know if you found the Safeti Podcast useful by leaving us a comment at the bottom of the page!

You can read through the entire podcast here Safeti Podcast with Carl Mannion Part 1 Transcript

Welcome back to the Safeti podcast. We’re now onto our second episode. As my voiceover guy has just said, I’m your host Richard Collins. The voice you would have just before was that of today’s guest Carl Mannion. Carl has very kindly come on the show with us to share how he strongly believes that health and safety both as an industry and as a system in the UK is actually failing smaller businesses and also of course to give us his viewpoint on how he feels this could be changed. Carl doesn’t pull his punches. He’s going to give us a very open and honest account of his experiences since opening his own consultancy business just over a year ago. This is really what the Safeti podcast was set out to do. Get you into the nitty-gritty of the industry and regardless of where you are in the world, I’m confident that you’ll be able to relate to a lot of what is said in this conversation. It was certainly very interesting for me to listen to Carls perspective from his recent experience and we both look forward to hearing your thoughts and listening to your feedback. Just to make it a little bit more digestible for you, I split this podcast into two parts. So let’s waste no more time and shoot over to a conversation with Carl.

OSHCR Website Link to the Occupational Safety & Health Consultants Register (OSHCR) that was mentioned in the show

Better Safety  Carl Mannion’s H&S Consultancy website

Carl Mannion  You can contact Carl via Linkedin as discussed during the podcast

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