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'The Art of Decision Making' - Workplace Stress with Billy Sim
If you are involved in Health and Safety, Environment or anything in between, make sure to join us for some laid back learning!
In Episode 13, we talk to Billy Sim, a veteran firefighter & safety trainer of over 30 years.
Billy has taken his experiences and simplified them into a learning approach for people & businesses that focuses on decision-making, situational awareness and communication skills.
Billy firmly believes that workplace stress is strongly connected to poor decision making, which can result in serious health and safety outcomes.
He is on a mission to demonstrate how teaching 'soft skills' can both improve the mental health of employees and subsequently have a positive impact on safety.
Resources
Love Learning Scotland - check out what Billy is doing with the charity Love Learning in Scotland, UK
Billy Sim on Linkedin - connect with Billy on Linkedin to start a conversation
HSE - Soft Skills in Organisations - HSE study on the importance of employee participation in health and safety
Stress at Work HSE - lots of useful resources for workplace stress management
Here's a taster of the Episode.....
Richard
Thanks for pressing play and listening into the safeti podcast. We aim to break down the barriers to learning in the HSE space to help you stay motivated, improve your knowledge and maximize your impact. So on the show today you have an esteemed guest all the way from Scotland, Billy Sims is a veteran firefighter of over 30 years.
Who since retiring has taken it upon himself to share what he has learned during his time in the fire service and try and translate it into something unique and useful. Now delivering corporate training programs which focuses on soft skills.
Billy explains how he has extracted the key learning from as many years in emergency services and tried to simplify them into practical tools. These can be used in any context to achieve better outcomes for people and businesses.
If this sounds like something you would like to hear a little bit more about, stick around.
Welcome to the safeti podcast with your host all the way from a small green island in the wild Atlantic Ocean, Richard Collins.
Richard
Thank you for sticking around and joining me on this conversation with Billy Sims. I really hope you can take some value from this conversation. Let’s go over and speak to him.
Billy Sims thank you very much for joining us on the safeti podcast today and all the way from sunny East Kilbride in Scotland.
Billy
Yeah I'm glad to be here, I’m doing fine, glad to be here, thank you.
Richard
We're obviously interested to hear what you have to say, you have a lots of experience coming from many years in the fire service and now of course you're working as part of love learning Scotland delivering training and you tell us a little bit about your background just for the audience and sort of how you got here.
On the front line
Billy
Yes Richard and my background I had done safety years in the fir