It’s better to fix the systematic root of a safety hazard before you try to fix safety attitudes. That’s why a system-based safety approach, where you fix an issue through system alterations, is the best way to launch a safety program.

In this episode, we talk with Jeffrey Citrone, Manager Healt h and Safety Compliance at KAHUNA Ventures LLC, about how to go a bout implementing a system-based approach to safety. Also, he explains why safety professionals need to do a better job of convincing management of the value of safety.

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Risks exist everywhere and unfortunately you cannot eliminate them all. As a result, the most important thing to learn to do is to better respond to recordable incidents and train your employees to avoid them in the future.

In this episode, Mark Sutton , Corporate Manager - Environmental Health and Safety at Parallel Products, shares the tips and tricks he has learned for improving safety within an organization.

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The key to making safety a priority is having a top-down approach. When field crews see that all company representatives - from the CEO to the supervisors - are adopting a culture of safety, they will feel more accountable to perform safely.

Jeff Larson, Director of Health and Safety at Electric Conduit Construction, joins the show to share how to get buy-in for a safety culture from all levels of an organization and why it’s so important.

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If you’re in environmental health and safety, jump in with both feet. Do not stick your toe in the water. Do it with all your heart.

Why? It isn’t about you. It’s about the people you take care of.

Recently on The Safety Management show, Susan Spaulding, Sr. EHS/QC Ma nager at J. Benton Construction, LLC, shared the above advice, as well as how she faced some of the hardest challenges in safety management.

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Best practices get a bad rap.

It seems like a lot of the conversations today are centered around “why you should move beyond best practices,” or “why best practices aren’t enough.”

And there is for sure some truth to those statements. But best practices are there for a reason, and a lot of times companies either brush them aside, or are so determined to move beyond best practices that they end up getting themselves in trouble.

On this episode of The Safety Management Show, James Desmond, the Safety Director at Blu Site Solutions, talks all about:

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When you’re just starting out in the safety field, it’s important to embrace the idea that you don’t know it all. Fresh out of college, you might think that you’ve got all the information you need — but you’ll soon realize that the most important lessons are yet to come.

In this episode, Julia Wilson, Assistant Regional Operations Manager and Senior Geologist at EarthCon Consultants, Inc., shares some hard-earned lessons for new safety professionals.

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Different companies have different attitudes towards safety. There are those that just want to get new employees certified as quickly as possible so they can put them to work, and there are others who want to build robust safety programs.

Jon Cordoba, Owner of P3 Safety Solutions and Instructor at the OSHA Education Center at ASU, discusses why he thinks more companies should do the latter and why they should strive to build a foundation for employee development.

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When you sign up for a career in the safety industry, you inadvertently agree to a couple of things.

You may always be seen as “the safety person” there to ruin productivity.

And you may be signing up to witness firsthand, or at least be present in the aftermath, some sort of workplace incident, maybe involving injury or worse.

On this episode of The Safety Management Show, we talk with Daniel Torres. Daniel is the safety director at Skender, one of the top construction firms in the United States, and has literally seen it all, the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Daniel talked with us all about:

- Utilizing technology to help make safety a priority

- Making sure everybody in your organization is prepared for every possible scenario

- Responding to and recovering from a workplace incident that results in injury

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When you work as a safety professional, one of the more frustrating attitudes you run into is that people confuse compliance with safety.

Compliance is not synonymous with safety.

Just ask James Tait, who, in his role as Corporate Safety Director at Schetter Electric, runs into this attitude — and helps guide others past it — every day.

James joins us as our first guest to discuss:

- The difference between safety and compliance

- What he’s learned interacting with OSHA

- How gamification can improve safety and make it fun at the same time

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Safety professionals exist in all sorts of industries. And every single one of them has a unique career, a unique set of challenges, and a unique story. Want to learn from them?

In this introductory episode, Rita Richa, Producer at Sweet Fish Media speaks with one of the hosts of the show, Jacqueline Turlukis, HSE Advisor at Safety Services Company, about:

- Jacqueline’s role at Safety Services Company

- Why the Safety Services Company decided to start a podcast

- What you can expect to hear in future episodes

Have any guest or topic ideas? Reach out to [email protected].

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