The Safety Gambit

On episode 9 of the Safety Gambit podcast, Lindsay is joined by Silvana Dominioni to explore how safety professionals, leaders, and employees can better connect with each other.

In this episode, we cover:

• How employees can get to the point of validating unsafe choices.
• Taking risks because that's the way it's always been done.
• Toll booth safety (yes, it's a thing!).
• When management doesn't have a grasp on their safety obligations.
• How Silvana has learned to connect with employees and earn their trust.
• How to help employees learn about the impact of their safety decisions.
• Feng shui for your office environment.
• And so much more!

Connect with Silvana on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/silvanadominioni/
The Feng Shui Collective: https://www.fengshuicollective.com/

Lindsay Polic, the host, is a multi-passionate entrepreneur, international health coach, child passenger safety technician (car seats!), and certified safety professional with over 20 years of experience. She likes to say that she offers regulatory compliance with heart. 

Learn more about Lindsay and connect with the show at LindsayPolic.com.  Follow the podcast on Instagram @TheSafetyGambit. And please rate, review, share, and subcsribe! Thanks for listening!

On episode 8 of the Safety Gambit podcast, Lindsay is joined by guest Khara Huhta to explore the six types of Working Genius and how to to use the Working Genius framework to foster stronger and more effective working relationships.

In this episode, we cover:

• Each of the six types of Working Genius: Wonder, Invention, Discernment, Enablement, Galvanizing, and Tenacity.
• Why the Working Genius framework helps foster understanding, empathy, and care within your teams. 
• How better awareness of each of our Working Genius types helps us better understand ourselves and each other.
• How to turn our frustrations into competencies.
• How the Working Genius framework exists within the safety world.
• Lindsay's and Khara's Working Genius types.
• And so much more!

Khara Huhta is a passionate and dedicated Certified Safety Professional and Certified Athletic Trainer with experience on all sides of occupational safety including safe preventative practices, injury response, root cause analysis, and corrective actions. In her previous career life, Khara provided athletic training services to the magical cast members at Disneyland before she found her new passion in health and safety. Khara began her safety consultant career in 2016 and has performed fall protection assessments, confined space inventories, and ergonomic assessments, along with program and project management tasks. She works entertainment conventions as a side gig and if you are looking for her on a weekend, you will often find her relaxing in the company of her husband, Erik, and their two dogs, Willow and Barrett. 

Connect with Khara on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kharahuhta/
Learn more about Working Genius: https://www.workinggenius.com/

Lindsay Polic, the host, is a multi-passionate entrepreneur, international health coach, child passenger safety technician (car seats!), and certified safety professional with over 20 years of experience. She likes to say that she offers regulatory compliance with heart. 

Learn more about Lindsay and connect with the show at LindsayPolic.com.  Follow the podcast on Instagram @TheSafetyGambit. And please rate, review, share, and subcsribe! Thanks for listening!

On episode 7 of the Safety Gambit podcast, Lindsay explores the intersection of habits and safety to help each of you answer the question: What are your safety habits?

In this episode, we cover:

• The definition of habit.
• Why everyone has habits, some you’re aware of and some you’re not.
• What habits look like at home and at work.
• Why it’s hard to change our habits.
• How are habits are impacting our safety at home and work.
• How reducing stress can help us break habits.
• And so much more!

And special shoutout to you listeners for helping us reach the milestone of 250 downloads! Thank you! Let's keep it going!

Lindsay Polic, the host, is a multi-passionate entrepreneur, international health coach, child passenger safety technician (car seats!), and certified safety professional with over 20 years of experience. She likes to say that she offers regulatory compliance with heart. 

Learn more about Lindsay and connect with the show at LindsayPolic.com.  Follow the podcast on Instagram @TheSafetyGambit. And please rate, review, share, and subcsribe! Thanks for listening!

On episode 6 of The Safety Gambit, Lindsay sits down with Emily Elrod to discuss how expectations impact our performance.

In this episode, we explore:

• The importance of HOT (Humble, Open and Transparent) conversations
• Designing environments for humans to work properly, safely, and caring of well-being
• Psychological safety as the most important for employees
• Creating space for employees to be vulnerable
• How validation has shifted fro working harder to working smarter.
• And much more!

About Emily Elrod:
Her clients describe Emily Elrod as energetic, wise beyond her years, and the person that gets things done. Her husband describes her as a blonde, good momma, and animal philanthropist. But if you ask her, she is just a lover of humanity, dark chocolate, and nouns as she will gladly nerd out with you on ways people, places, and things (aka nouns) go from stressed to strategic as she helps them perform at their top potential. She has a background in ergonomic engineering, Human Resources, and Wholistic Human-Centric design. She is blessed to own a company called Workzbe that works with high-performing, high-pressure teams of all sizes to create WISE work environments where people show up, collaborate, perform, and have fun while doing it.

Lindsay Polic, the host, is a multi-passionate entrepreneur, international health coach, child passenger safety technician (car seats!), and certified safety professional with over 20 years of experience. She likes to say that she offers regulatory compliance with heart. 

Learn more about Lindsay and connect with the show at LindsayPolic.com.  Follow the podcast on Instagram @TheSafetyGambit. And please rate, review, share, and subcsribe! Thanks for listening!

On episode 5 of The Safety Gambit, Lindsay sits down with Teri Slater to discuss the intersection of financial stress and risk tolerance. In other words, financial flashpoints!

What is your financial flashpoints?

In this episode, we explore:

• How financial stress impacts how people show up to work.
• The level of distraction and its role in financial stress.
• Risk tolerance in our financial decisions.
• What separates those who have high risk tolerance from those who have low risk tolerance.
• Safety gambits in the financial space.
• Tips for dealing with risk tolerance and financial stress.
• And more!

Teri Slater has helped high achievers overcome shame, guilt and overwhelm with their finances as a financial coach since 2008. Despite her finance degree however, she and her former husband used credit cards as an extension of their incomes to buy lifestyle and happiness. After a "line in the sand moment", Teri ditched over $200,000 in debt, the mindsets that got her there and eventually the marriage. She discovered a more profound approach and joy in helping others overcome debt and create more confidence on their financial journeys.

Lindsay Polic, the host, is a multi-passionate entrepreneur, international health coach, child passenger safety technician (car seats!), and certified safety professional with over 20 years of experience. She likes to say that she offers regulatory compliance with heart. 

Learn more about Lindsay and connect with the show at LindsayPolic.com.  Follow the podcast on Instagram @TheSafetyGambit. And please rate, review, share, and subcsribe! Thanks for listening!

On episode 4 of The Safety Gambit, Lindsay asks one very important question when it comes to our safety, the safety of our community, the safety of our workplaces, and the safety of the people we love:

What is your risk tolerance?

In this episode, we explore:

• The influencing factors of risk tolerance.
• How risk tolerance is different for everyone, and how it changes over time.
• The difference between risks and hazards.
• Lindsay's worrywart childhood, and her husband's risk tolerance with . . . sharks.
• Risk perception.
• And so much more!

Lindsay Polic, the host, is a multi-passionate entrepreneur, international health coach, child passenger safety technician (car seats!), and certified safety professional with over 20 years of experience. She likes to say that she offers regulatory compliance with heart. 

Learn more about Lindsay and connect with the show at LindsayPolic.com.  Follow the podcast on Instagram @TheSafetyGambit. And please rate, review, share, and subcsribe! Thanks for listening!

On episode 3 of The Safety Gambit, Lindsay sits down with Emma Garrison to discuss how to build safety and trust at work.

This wide ranging conversation explores:

• How disengaged employees leads to more risk and hazards.
• Building empathy and understanding in your team.
• Considering how our people are walking through the door (i.e. they are impacted by stuff that happens outside of the workplace).
• What leaders can do to foster trust in their employees.
• Why it's important to be vulnerable as a leader.
• And "get on board" questions!

Emma Garrison has devoted her career to supporting leadership teams in fully understanding the human aspect of the business, company culture, and how to drive results through our most valuable asset – our people!
 
Emma is trained as a Master Nuero-Linguistic Programming Practitioner,
Master Life Coach, trauma-informed and holds a degree in Human
Development and Family Studies with a minor in Psychology from the
University of Utah. She was trained in Human Resources, Leadership
and Employee Experience in the world-renowned leadership program at
Target.

Lindsay Polic, the host, is a multi-passionate entrepreneur, international health coach, child passenger safety technician (car seats!), and certified safety professional with over 20 years of experience. She likes to say that she offers regulatory compliance with heart. 

Learn more about Lindsay and connect with the show at LindsayPolic.com. Thanks for listening!

On episode 2 of The Safety Gambit, Lindsay discusses the four pillars of the human aspect of safety.

The four pillars of human safety are: community; education and skills; environment; and well-being. Each pillar plays a huge role in our lives at home and at work, including the impact on work-life integration, how we consume and react to information, finding joy in our careers, and more.

Other topics explored on this episode include:

• Lindsay's personal experience leaving her corporate job to pursue a career on her own.
• How to conduct your own personal hazard assessment using the four pillars of human safety as a guide.
• How to avoid sacrificing your own mental health and well-being in your job.

Lindsay Polic, the host, is a multi-passionate entrepreneur, international health coach, child passenger safety technician (car seats!), and certified safety professional with over 20 years of experience. She likes to say that she offers regulatory compliance with heart. 

Learn more about Lindsay and connect with the show at LindsayPolic.com. Thanks for listening!

On episode 1 of The Safety Gambit, Lindsay answers the question: what is a safety gambit? 

From the risks we take at home (like standing on a ladder) to the impact of safety decisions made at work, The Safety Gambit podcast will explore every possible angle to safety through a holistic, human lens.

Other topics explored in this episode include:

• Why we can't silo our work life from our home life.
• Emotional, spiritual, social, and physical safety.
• Why companies take risks, and what that means for employees.
• And, most importantly, the human aspect of safety.

Lindsay Polic, the host, is a multi-passionate entrepreneur, international health coach, child passenger safety technician (car seats!), and certified safety professional with over 20 years of experience. She likes to say that she offers regulatory compliance with heart. 

Learn more about Lindsay and connect with the show at LindsayPolic.com. Thanks for listening!

A safety gambit is a risk we take hoping for a positive outcome, often without consideration of the impact that the risk could have on the culture of safety at work or at home. The Safety Gambit podcast will bring awareness to the impact that our safety decisions have on the safety of workplaces, the emotional and physical safety of our spaces, and the overall philosophy of safety.

Join your host, Lindsay Polic, a Certified Safety Professional with over 20 years of experience, as we redefine the way we think about safety by asking questions, sharing thoughts, and interviewing like-hearted people. If you are ready to shift the safety culture within yourself and your environment, this podcast is for you.

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