Podcast appearances and mentions of Andrew Barrett

Paul did not require wives to submit to husbands in an over/under way. Paul used Word Patterns, back then, like we use Chapter Headings, today. What patterns? 1) THE PATTERN OF FOURS. 2) THE PARALLEL PATTERN. 3) THE OVERARCHING JUMP, JUMP, HIGH JUMP PATTERN. Go deeper? Get the book Beyond Eden by Bruce C. E. Fleming on Ephesians 5:15-6:9. The Tru316 Foundation (www.Tru316.com) is the home of The Eden Podcast with Bruce C. E. Fleming where we “true” the verse of Genesis 3:16. The Tru316 Message is that “God didn't curse Eve (or Adam) or limit woman in any way.” Once Genesis 3:16 is made clear the other passages on women and men become clear too. You are encouraged to access the episodes of Seasons 1-11 of The Eden Podcast for teaching on the seven key passages on women and men. Are you a reader? We invite you to get from Amazon the four books by Bruce C. E. Fleming in The Eden Book Series (Tru316.com/trubooks). Would you like to support the work of the Tru316 Foundation? You can become a Tru Partner here: www.Tru316.com/partner

The piece you might be missing as you try to build new things and all your efforts for making change, might actually be deliberately blowing things up. Hey, it's Andrew, and this is Safety on Tap.  Since you're listening in, you must be a leader wanting to grow yourself and drastically improve health and safety along the way.  Welcome to you, you're in the right place.  If this is your first time listening in, thanks for joining us and well done for trying something different to improve! And of course welcome back to all of you wonderful regular listeners. "Closing time, open all the doors and let you out into the world" The song Closing Time by Semisonic is one of those classic tunes of my transition into adulthood. "Closing time, one last call for alcohol So, finish your whiskey or beer Closing time, you don't have to go home But you can't stay here" After it was released in 1998 it was pretty common that this song was the very last song played in the bar or pub before the lights got turned back on and everyone had to leave. "So gather up your jackets, move into the exits, I hope you have found your friends Closing time, every new beginning comes from some other beginnings end" It turns out that this anthem of the very late night party people had nothing to do with going out of drinking, or even going home. The whole song is a metaphor for the birth of a child. Lead singer Dan Wilson was soon to become a father as he was writing this song, and the literal meaning of the last song in fact came to be a much deeper insight into the realities of getting bounced from the womb into the world.

Full show notes: www.safetyontap.com/ep218 You seem to have answers for everything, he said to me.  He was 100% right and 100% wrong at the same time.  This is a podcast about how that can be, and how you can engage with better answers. Hey, it's Andrew, and this is Safety on Tap.  Since you're listening in, you must be a leader wanting to grow yourself and drastically improve health and safety along the way.  Welcome to you, you're in the right place.  If this is your first time listening in, thanks for joining us and well done for trying something different to improve! And of course welcome back to all of you wonderful regular listeners.   Before you think that this episode will be a gratuitous brag about how good I think I am wrapped up in some parable of a story, stay with me for a few minutes.  When he said to me, 'you seem to have answers for everything', he WAS both right and wrong at the same time.                                                              He was right because to him, it did seem that I had answers for lots of the things we were talking about and working through in our coaching together.  He was wrong, because I wasn't really giving him answers in the way that questions are usually asked, or problems are usually solved with solutions.  What I was giving him was responses.  Responses to his question, to his story, to his context.  Responses aren't answers.  Responses are what we do when it's our turn, in a dialogue two or more people engage in a turn-taking exchange. Dialogue is an ancient word, very central to modern human experience, which comes from two Greek words put together: dia- translates to through, and logos translated to meaning, dialogos, or dialogue, the movement of flow of meaning through the people involved.  You can see turn taking all the time, which isn't dialogue. It's more like tennis.  One person serves, another receives and returns the ball.  The object of tennis, and the object of a huge proportion of our interactions with other people, is to get to the end, to resolve the point, usually in favour of one person or the other.

Full show notes: www.safetyontap.com/ep216 Radio, television, and the content we consume have changed enormously since I was a kid. This is a podcast about the physics, and the metaphor of this change and how we can change too, but only if we want to remain resonant.   Hey, it's Andrew, and this is Safety on Tap.   Since you're listening in, you must be a leader wanting to grow yourself and drastically improve health and safety along the way.  Welcome to you, you're in the right place.  If this is your first time listening in, thanks for joining us and well done for trying something different to improve! And of course welcome back to all of you wonderful regular listeners. There used to be just a handful of TV stations, and a handful of radio stations. It was kind of easy as a kid, because the TV guide fit onto a single page in the newspaper, and the discussion about what to watch was easier because there were only a few options to choose from. Cartoons on Channel 7 on the afternoons we were allowed to watch TV, then Channel 2 at 6pm for the ABC news, on Wednesdays the highlight of the TV week was a bit of police drama with Blue Heelers on Channel 7 at 8.30, and Friday night football on Channel 9 kicked off the sporting entertainment of the weekend.  Bandwidth used to be a constraint.  On the radiomagnetic spectrum, there are only a limited number of frequencies which TV or radio could use to broadcast their content to you.  Even if you have a digital radio in your car or at home, you can still see the remnants of this bandwidth constraint, when a radio station includes a number in the name - Mix 106.5, 104.1 Today FM.  The number is the actual frequency (measured in Mega Hz for FM stations), the actual number of times the wave goes up and down per second.  That number meant it was easy for you to tune into the right station, to listen to what they had to offer, loud and clear.  If you were one point off, one tweak of the dial, and not only did you have the wrong frequency, you had garbled, snowy, or no radio content to listen to.   There is no doubt that the use of the radiomagnetic spectrum for communication, and its associated constraint of a limited number of frequencies, shaped our culture enormously.  Until the constraint disappeared.  With the internet we went from limited bandwidth to broadband - because we jumped off the radiomagnetic spectrum and entered a world of limitless channels to choose from, unlimited space for broadcast, and people who were more than happy to no longer be constrained to the 3 or 5 channels they used to have to choose from.

Starting the 2024 Season off where it all started, the Long Haul 100. Frequent guest Andy "Croom" Mathews returns to the podcast to go in-depth into everything about this race. He's also joined by three-time finisher and 3rd Overall at the 2022 Long Haul 100, Jeff Iosa! Also joining the chat this year is two-time finisher and captain of the Boots or Saddles Aid Station, Andrew Barrett! We analyze the course, answer some questions, talk about what it's going to take to be successful, some tips and tricks, some Long Haul 100 trivia, and yes! We make our predictions for the female and male top finishers for this year! We also chat on who we think is going to have most consistent race, some dark horses, and speculate on some Long Haul 100 rookies. The Long Haul 100 takes place at Colt Creek State Park near Lakeland, Florida and is Florida's only Western States Qualifying Race. Great for first-timers and veterans alike! The course is a 6 x 16.6 mile loops. There are 3 fully manned Aid Stations and access to your drop bags every loop. This race is truly the grand gathering of the Florida ultra and trail scene!  See y'all at Long Haul! 

Full show notes: www.safetyontap.com/ep212 Hey, it's Andrew, and this is Safety on Tap.  If we want to improve our performance in ANY area of our life, work or otherwise, there are ONLY three ways to do it, three kinds of how before we decide what to do.  For most of us, the decisions we make every day, many times a day, about which of the three ways to take, is invisible.  Until now. Since you're listening in, you must be a leader wanting to grow yourself and drastically improve health and safety along the way.  Welcome to you, you're in the right place.  If this is your first time listening in, thanks for joining us and well done for trying something different to improve! And of course welcome back to all of you wonderful regular listeners. Most people who go to the gym exercise more than people who exercise on their own because of the very fact that they are at a gym, and there are people around them are working out. And research suggests that you tend to exercise at the level of those people around you, whether they are high fitness or low fitness, you'll tend to match them.  Exercising at home is entirely possible for almost every person on the planet, and free.   But when we invest in doing it with help and with the right kind of others, it almost always accelerates our results.  Take that up a notch with a personal trainer, where you get more tailored help for your situation, you have built-in accountability and boosted motivation because of the design of the help/support you invest in (the PT).  I mentioned there are three ways to improve performance, and only three. Everything you do in your life fits into one of these three categories. 

Full show notes: www.safetyontap.com/ep211 I don't agree.  And here's why.  We should hear this a lot more in health and safety practice.  The need to say these words, and the way it sounds when we say it, is more important to our effectiveness than you can imagine.  Hey, it's Andrew, and this is Safety on Tap.  Since you're listening in, you must be a leader wanting to grow yourself and drastically improve health and safety along the way.  Welcome to you, you're in the right place.  If this is your first time listening in, thanks for joining us and well done for trying something different to improve! And of course welcome back to all of you wonderful regular listeners. In year one, my school report said that I participated with vigour in everything, creative and imaginative, but easily distracted.  In year two I was described as enthusiastic, with much to contribute, but restless and tended to distract other students.  In year three, Mrs Noonan lauded my vivid imagination, pleasing progress, but said straight out I was inconsiderate of others.  In year four I managed to earn the teachers label as polite, interested, capable, but lacking concentration and very easily distracted.  For the first time it seems, Miss Newcombe made the connection between my apparent weaknesses and my strengths, recognising my participation in group work and class discussions as extremely good.  And by year 6, poor Miss Rodgers who was one year out of teachers college didn't know what hit her.  Hard working, creative, and capable she said I was, and then came the shit sandwich of feedback - great participation in discussions, but the enthusiasm leads to rather thoughtless actions, which can be disruptive, and this does hinder Andrew producing work I was capable of.    The biggest problem with communication is the assumption that it has happened.  And the #1 cause of conflict is when people fail to understand each other.  If I said to you that we don't have enough disagreement in health and safety, what would you say to me? Does that conjure up all the times that you've had to go up against a worker, supervisor, or manager on a hazard or inadequate risk control? Or when you've gone head to head with an auditor, client, or inspector? How many times have you had to defend a safety requirement, 'because, it's a requirement'? Or the system says? Or infamously, it's a legal requirement (said with such conviction that it's become automatic, even though deep down we know that most things labelled as legal requirements are not)? Ok so we probably have enough disagreements.  What if I tweaked my statement, and said to you that we don't have enough good quality disagreements in health and safety? What comes to mind? What does that mean?

Full show notes: www.safetyontap.com/ep209 We are in the business of change.  But we aren't always great at it.  This is a podcast about babies and blindness, carrots and elephants, and the necessary tension between where we want to go, and where we are right now.  I don't think we will ever be able to rest on our laurels, even if we become the most influential and effective safety professionals in history.  Even if all the hazards are identified, all the controls are known and in place, I think two things will always be true.  The first truth is that the only thing that stays the same is change - change in operations, change in people, change in resourcing, change in the work environment or industry context.  The second truth, or maybe I should say what I believe to be true, comes from the High Reliability Organising research.  Even when everything seems great, our ongoing job is to create and maintain a sense of unease about things, which keeps us tuned into and anticipating change and what needs to change.  I gave up the clever but trite phrase 'my job is to make myself redundant' many years ago for this reason. I will make the argument that not only is the job never finished, that we need to earn our place in our organisation using this very logic.  And until that time, it can feel really, really frustrating. 

Derek talks to Andrew about homeschooling, his start in MMA, being inspired by his coaches, opening The Kings Court Academy, his approach as a head coach, comfort in discomfort, and relaxing by watching MMA sped up! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wheatleydeQ

Ep207: On the Hook & the Cost of Free, with Andrew Barrett Full show notes: www.safetyontap.com/ep207   Today, you can access the entire collection of information used to create university-level health and safety programs, for free.  Today, you could sign-up for an MBA, and in a year from now have an MBA, for free.  If you haven't done either of these things, and you probably haven't, there's a reason.  For the people who have taken that first step, almost all of them drop out and walk away.  This is a story about the rationality of never starting and of giving up, and how we can create the conditions for you and those around us to actually get better.    Hey, it's Andrew, and this is Safety on Tap.    Since you're listening in, you must be a leader wanting to grow yourself and drastically improve health and safety along the way.  Welcome to you, you're in the right place.  If this is your first time listening in, thanks for joining us and well done for trying something different to improve! And of course welcome back to all of you wonderful regular listeners.   I worked in an organization in which it was normal for people to talk about responsibility saying things like 'ok Jill, you're on the hook for that action'.  When discussing significant projects, or high workload, or risky things to have your name one, people might kindly ask 'do you want to be on the hook for that?'   At the time I thought it was a strange phrase.  It conjured up images of 'catching' slippery sea creatures and dragging them to their demise, or in darker moments the more dread filled meat hook so favoured by horror writers and medieval dungeon keepers.    It tuns out the idiom 'on the hook' does come from fishing.  A fish on the hook has been caught, it no other options, what happens next is decided.  On the flip side, a fish not yet on the hook is free, and one which was on the hook but is no longer, has 'slipped' off the hook.    This metaphor for gives us a long runway into a discussion about responsibility and accountability more generally, which I will explore in an episode soon, but for now we need to talk about putting ourselves on the hook, taking responsibility for the things we control. 

Ep205: Platinum, Covid, and how ideas spread, with Andrew Barrett Full Show Notes: https://safetyontap.com/ep205   I noticed when they started saying 'Welcome back Mr Barrett' when I boarded the plane.  But I really took notice, when they stopped saying it.  This is a podcast about ideas, and stories, and our opportunity to pay more attention to how they affect our work as health and safety professionals.    Hey, it's Andrew, and this is Safety on Tap.    Since you're listening in, you must be a leader wanting to grow yourself and drastically improve health and safety along the way.  Welcome to you, you're in the right place.  If this is your first time listening in, thanks for joining us and well done for trying something different to improve! And of course welcome back to all of you wonderful regular listeners.     Before Covid I travelled a fair bit, and despite proving time and time again how effective virtual coaching and facilitation can be during Covid, once travel restrictions were eased I found myself being asked to come here and go there more than I would like.  Covid saw two automatic extensions of my frequent flyer status, since if you can't fly you can't maintain it.  Once travel was permitted again, I found myself dropped from the top tier frequent flyer colour down to the next one.  I've always said  that frequent flyer status is not exciting nor something to be coveted, all it indicates is that I spend too much time away from my family.    Stick with me, for regular listeners you'll know that my story and metaphor ties into what we do as health and safety professionals, rather than an egotistical rant.  There is something small, something human about stepping onto a plane, and someone looking at the colour at the bottom of the pass, looking you in the eye, and saying welcome back.  They don't know me, they see data which tells them on this airline, we value loyalty and we welcome people by name.    Until they didn't.  It seems that stepping onto a plane, Gold status bumps me down the human respect pecking order, so there is no personal 'welcome back My Barrett' anymore.  They changed their idea about what loyalty, status and customer service sounds like.  One tiny change made me notice, and changed the way I feel.    Infectious Ideas, Genes and Memes   An idea which I was introduced to me early in my career, and which was reinforced a lot, an idea which I came to believe and would re-tell to others was that safety management systems were the solution to health and safety performance.  That idea became so intertwined in my professional identity and practice that it shaped me, and blinded me, and twisted me.    Another idea which was part of my early professional shaping is the story that 'part of our job is to protect the Board of Directors'.  That one did a real doozy on me, creating confusion and anger and inconsistency and bad behaviour in the name of a story which I believed at the start because other people handed that idea down to me so became my story.  Except when I decided that it wouldn't be my story, that I needed a new story to replace it.  Needless to say that one needs an entire lying-on-the-couch podcast session, but ultimately boils down to very important but grammatically minor tweaks I made to the core idea in the story: instead of 'part of our job is to protect the Board of Directors', my new story was 'most of my job is supporting safe and healthy work, which becomes protection for the Board of Directors'.  How did those ideas come to be? In part, they were spread, like a virus, from others to me, and they became infective.    You may have heard the word genes, spelled g-e-n-e-s, in reference to the unique DNA coding which animals and plants inherit from their parents in the process of reproduction.  Genes contain the information which lead to your height, your eye colour, and many parts of your physical and psychological make-up, including tendency for disease, creativity and intellect.    In the biological world, something like Covid did not exactly exist until the day that it did.  What happened that day was a combination of mutation of genes within cells, an increasingly hospitable environment for those cells, and then rapid copying or replication of those virus cells and their spread into hospitable environments, namely human beings.  The cells which had evolved reproduced, the ones that didn't evolve didn't survive, and that is the basic equation for the explosive spread of that virus, including it's variants which were just human labels for distinct mutations of the original genetic makeup of the virus.    The copying, mutation, and selection which ideas in our culture undergo is an analogy to biological genetic evolution through generations over time.  In 1976 Richard Dawkins wrote a book titled the Selfish Gene, in which he expanded on the idea of 'memes' as described by numerous other authors, including Huxley as far back as the 1800's.  A meme was originally meant to signify a cultural idea, a bit like a piece of DNA, which spreads, duplicates and mutates according to cultural pressures, like competition, and favourable or inhospitable environment.    Survival, Spread, and Virality   An example of this most of us can identify with is how ideas of hatred or violence spread.  These ideas are not new in human history, but definitely evolve over time, which means that there continues to be environments of greater or lesser benefit to the ideas.  We might think that a cultural environment like religion and religious believers is inhospitable to violence or hatred, yet we see institutional religion and believers as promotors and perpetrators of so much hatred and violence in the past.  We might say that developed countries have cultures which are increasingly inhospitable to hatred and violence, yet every single one of them has obsessive sporting sub-cultures based on the idea that my team is the best, which means I hate your team, and the way we prove it is to go to battle with balls, batts and white lines on mowed grass fields.    Can you see how complicated it gets when we start seeing ideas and how they spread?   It's no mistake that memes, as cultural ideas akin to biological genes, are often described as 'viral' - spreading and evolving rapidly.  The way to spot traits is to look for things common across multiple generations.  My wife and I have blue eyes so my kids will all have blue eyes.  But sporting ability? That's harder to see, but it's there if you look.  So let's think about the virality of ideas in health and safety.    What are the things which you were introduced to as a young or new health and safety professional which you accepted as they were.  Once of mine was about safety management systems.  What about yours? That compliance is the goal? That everything needs a record? That people do make bad decisions? That complacency is a real, valid, and satisfactory explanation for an incident? That danger pay is an acceptable trade off for high risk working conditions? That Unions truly do want to protect worker safety? Or that Unions weaponise safety? That Regulators should be welcomed to the workplace? Or that Regulators should be quickly shown a fabrication of real work and shown the door?   What about our role? That we are here to protect? Or care? That if we don't do safety no one else will? That even if we know the training is crappy, we convince people it's not that bad because we think it's the right thing to do? That you are a better safety person because of your real world experience? Or you are better because you studied? Or you are better because you had a personal safety or health scare? Or you are a better professional because you had a father or brother or daughter or friend die at work?   Paying Attention to How Ideas Spread   All these things are memes, not cute cat face memes or Chuck Another Shrimp on the Barbie memes, they are the idea threads which replicate, evolve and spread in our culture, the stuff we say and do and read and pay attention to and develop and expect at work and what work expects of us.    The greatest irony of all about Dawkins concept of the meme, was that it was, in his words, 'hijacked by the internet'.  Instead of an interesting theory for us to look at culture, it became the label for cheesy, cheap and shallow attention sucking snippets all within the square frame in your social media feed.  This hijacking led to three very interesting things happening which we can learn from.    First, memes started behaving less like genes when people became intent and deliberate about how they changed them.  Instead of evolutionary selection (which explains why giraffes have long necks) or mutation (such as the cause of Down Syndrome or Cystic Fibrosis), people actively muck around and change ideas.  Think about how many memes you've seen based on The Matrix Movie, Game of Thrones, Donald Trump or anything with a cat in it.   In safety we see how people are deliberately mutating original ideas.  The concept of management commitment enshrined in safety management systems was twisted into a signed policy.  The concept of risk management overemphasised the risk assessment step, at the expense of risk identification and risk control.  Hollnagels original idea of Safety I inside Safety II got turned into Safety I versus Safety II.  Most people don't even know where the ideas have come from let alone at what point in time someone changed or twisted the original idea.    The second interesting observation coming from the internet's hijacking of memes, is that memes result in behaviours in which people are actively trying to make something viral.  In biology this is kind of nonsense, even viruses aren't deliberately viral in the sense that it's not like someone or some people designed it to spread, it spread because the environment suited it and there was no downward pressure on its spread.  And the internet is a far less hostile place for ideas to evolve and spread than in the natural environment.  It took 1000 years for humans to figure out that the biggest juiciest seeds are worth saving and breeding to plant as next years crop, instead of wandering around the forest hoping to find enough to eat.  1000 years for the idea of agriculture to evolve.  It has taken around 100 years for the idea that organisations should employ people specifically focussed on safety.  It has taken only a few decades for the idea of safety management systems to become mainstream, and less than that for business leaders to think that Lost Time Injury is a good indicator of safety performance.  The concept of work as imagined and work as done is over 70 years old, but the idea only spread within the last 20, and only two people on the entire planet are responsible for most of that virality.  This second insight means that the ideas that spread are the ones that win.  Not the best ideas, not even the original ideas. Ideas that spread, win.   Are we infected, infectious, or both?   The concept of ideas as cultural memes gives us an opportunity to do a little reflection on something which is all around us, but not something most of us pay much attention to.    What kinds of ideas do you believe, spread, or shape without realising it?   Do you take ideas as-is, or do you try to change them as you spread them?   What kinds of ideas do you take as fact, and what ideas have you rejected or changed?   We get frustrated when people in our organisations 'don't get it'.  That might be because other ideas are far more viral than the ones you are trying to make extinct.    This epsiode as been in half-draft for over two years ago (in fact, there are heaps just like that in half-draft).  Thanks to Mick Bates for unknowingly giving me the nudge to finish this podcast when he shared some helpful reflections on how extremist ideas and beliefs come to be.    Thanks so much for listening.  Until next time, what's the one thing you'll do to take positive, effective or rewarding action, to grow yourself, and drastically improve health and safety along the way?   Seeya!

Sometimes, 99% is as good as 0%.  And it's really quite useful to know when that's the case.  Hey, it's Andrew, and this is Safety on Tap.  Since you're listening in, you must be a leader wanting to grow yourself and drastically improve health and safety along the way.  Welcome to you, you're in the right place.  If this is your first time listening in, thanks for joining us and well done for trying something different to improve! And of course welcome back to all of you wonderful regular listeners. This episode is brought to you by real people, doing real high risk work.  But even more than that, this episode is brought to you because well timed, well structured curious questions asked of the people who do that work, reveal insights that we can all learn a whole lot from.  "210 to 318, am I okay to come past on your left side?" What you just heard is often called poscomms.  Poscomms is short for Positive Communication.  Poscomms serves as an important control measure to prevent the unwanted or uncontrolled interaction of people and plant, usually large plant or machinery in mining and civil construction works.  Picture large dump trucks or truck and trailer, bulldozers and excavators.  So what's the actual control, the things which is effective for minimising the risk of people and plant interaction? It turns out, it's quite a number of things.  The basic ingredients are: People with radios The initial message The response 'I've got it Baz', I can hear you thinking.  Why are you talking about a really self-evident control for a common risk on lots of kinds of sites, on a podcast designed for deeper professional development? Well to explain, we need to make a quick diversion and talk about the bung hole.  Bung Holes A bung is a kind of cork, which you put into the holes in a boat to stop it sinking.  Why do boats have holes? Most boats, most except really big ones which permanently stay in the water, have holes in them because the boat needs to drain when it comes out of the water. Boats take on water, so they need a drain hole.  A bung hole.  If you've ever been boating, you'll know about the bung hole.  Because one single piece of cork or plastic is the thing that will, without a shadow of a doubt, make the difference between you floating, or sinking the boat.  If someone forgets to put the bung back in the bung hole, you're sunk.  Even if you did secure every single bung hole, but forgot one.  You will sink.  That's when 99% is as good as 0%.  So we are sitting outside with this construction crew after their morning pre-start meeting.  We were talking with the people who do the work in order to discuss with the senior governance committee about whether the safety vision was evident out on site.  And yes, that is data, and the process was data gathering for reporting purposes - not everything is a number, but I digress.  We had done a couple of things to do our best to get the psychological safety sufficient for the group to discuss work as done.  I asked 'what's something you know, that's really important to you, that you wish other people knew?' One of the excavator operators jumps in without missing a beat.  "No one acknowledges me radio calls, I just wish when I jump on the radio to a spotter or another operator, that I get an acknowledgement'.  'What do you mean?' I asked.  I could have guessed, but in these situations, my only goal is to encourage the person to talk more, using their own words, without my assumptions or interpretations.  If you want to stimulate good dialogue, a question like 'what do you mean' is what's called an encourager.  'I got no idea whether anyone has heard me call, who is around, and what is happening on the ground'.  Remember what it sounds like? This poscomms control? Initial message.  Respond.  Initial message.  No response.  99% is as good as 0%.  No response, no poscomms, incomplete visibility, incomplete information.  Uncertain delay, or just as likely proceeding blind.  Uncontrolled risk.  Drift towards failure.  Approximately 70 seconds later, the group had talked about what good actually sounds like, and there was greater clarity of what people expected.  Not only that, the group had started to self-organise around one person's expert knowledge of work as done.  They took that perspective as important, and understood what needed to happen and why.  The broader team who aren't involved directly in plant movement also became witness to this work as done, the potential for immediate adaptation, and what to pay attention to in the hours thereafter.  How confident are we that what we think is working, is working? How comfortable are we with our current uncertainty? The idea of 99% = 0% is not the same as saying that everything is useless.  There are positive changes that are evident, in the way that risks are understood, controls are defined, planning ensures there are enough spotters, that everyone has a radio, and the radio's are charged,  inductions set clear expectations, plant operators are actually on their radio's and the calls are clear and understandable.  The 99% = 0% Rule simply means that a lot of effort means diddly squat without all the right ingredients.  These are the ingredients that come together to make the critical control cake.  But even cakes need a minimum of critical parts - some dry stuff like flour, some sweet stuff like sugar, some wet stuff like milk or eggs, and something to help it rise like yeast or bicarb.  And yet a big list of those things were in place on the site for that poscomms control measure to work.  Except the plant operators don't hear anything back.  The trap, the real temptation is when the 99% fools everyone into thinking that it's close enough to 100%.  It makes mathematical sense if you round it up.   It doesn't work that way.  Near enough is good enough.  The last bung missing in the boat.  The yeast missing from the cake.  The acknowledgement missing after the radio call.  All too often in our game, the 99% is as good as 0%. And it's useful to know when.  Thanks so much for listening.  Until next time, what's the one thing you'll do to take positive, effective or rewarding action, to grow yourself, and drastically improve health and safety along the way? Seeya!

Do you have a busy mind? Does it seem like your mind is always trying to solve problems in your business and life? Many people think that meditation is simply impossible for them. They might think, “I am too busy for that.” If you can relate, this episode is perfect for you! In this episode I sit down with meditation teacher, coach, and business consultant, Andrew Barrett. He breaks down many of the misconceptions people have heard about meditation and teaches a simple way EVERYONE can start using this incredible method to reduce stress, get energy, and improve their lives. Check out the episode! Connect with Andrew: Facebook Group: Meditation Made Simple: https://m.facebook.com/groups/390704162880606/?ref=share&mibextid=S66gvF Email: ab@the1percentproject.com Website: https://the1percentproject.com/

I've taken a bit of a break from creating new podcast episodes, and as I come back to you with this episode, I started reflecting on what happens when you're gone.    Hey, it's Andrew, and this is Safety on Tap.    Since you're listening in, you must be a leader wanting to grow yourself and drastically improve health and safety along the way.  Welcome to you, you're in the right place.  If this is your first time listening in, thanks for joining us and well done for trying something different to improve! And of course welcome back to all of you wonderful regular listeners.   I've been gone from new podcast production for a few months.  It was a break I didn't think I would need to take decided to take and it got me thinking about what it means for me to be present for you, what it might mean for being absent, and the parallels with health and safety practice.   One of the questions I frequently encourage the professionals I coach to ask the people who they seek to serve, is 'what does good service look and sound like in practice?'  

In this episode, Mary Conquest speaks with coach, speaker and podcast host Andrew Barrett, the founder of Safety On Tap, a consultancy specializing in the development and growth of Health and Safety leaders.Andrew has created an evolving model of marketing for Health and Safety, and in this fascinating interview, he explains how this model works and what EHS professionals can learn from marketing to improve their effectiveness.He takes key marketing concepts - such as customers, products, services, matching needs, ensuring appropriate fit, transactions, feedback, consultation and engagement - and applies them to workplace safety.Andrew explores who safety professionals' customers are and highlights the potential conflict between the needs of frontline workers and leadership. Regardless of everything that HSE practitioners are doing, a great starting point to develop a marketing approach to safety is asking: who are you trying to help, and what problems do they have?Getting feedback and consulting with internal customers is a great way to co-create safety initiatives that end-users will want to adopt - rather than have to adopt. Andrew shares great practical advice on the best ways of achieving these goals and ensuring that safety management products and services are a good fit.Andrew highlights the importance of validating the adoption and effectiveness of safety programs and gives top tips on how to do this efficiently. He also challenges HSE professionals to give more consideration to ongoing service and support post-implementation.A deeper understanding and engagement with humans and relationships underpin the entire model. This is a highly engaging discussion, and Andrew makes a great case to understand how marketing can help Health and Safety.Find out more about Andrew's work by visiting:Professional development for health and safety leaders (safetyontap.com)Andrew's Podcast, Safety on Tap:Episodes - Safety on TapMarketing experts recommended by Andrew:Dan Pink - https://www.danpink.com/Seth Godin - Seth's Site (sethgodin.com)Andrew Barrett on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-barrett-learning-coachSafety Labs is created by Slice, the only safety knife on the market with a finger-friendly® blade. Find us at www.sliceproducts.comIf you have any questions, please email us at safetylabs@sliceproducts.com

On this episode we are back at the Long Haul 100, but this time we've got a whole new perspective on the race! Typically, the stories from the race come from the runners, but this time we've got Ali Mathews, Andrew Barrett, and Jessica Calise! They, alongside others, were some of your aid station heroes at the Aid Station Two with the Thompson's! But also, huge shout-out to Julie and Pops... they are absolute legends when it comes volunteering! It was so nice to see them out there this year. It's always awesome to hear the perspective from the Aid Station Volunteers, the outlook they have on the race. It's such a blessing, not only looking at from a Race Directors point of view, but also as the runner... we are so blessed to have so many passionate people willing to give-up their free time to come out to a race and help so many people. From start to finish; from the front of the pack to the back of the pack... your aid station volunteers log some serious hours and it is amazing what they do! Speaking for myself, and probably so many others, I absolutely love volunteering at a race! It is something I would recommend for everyone to try out!

Andrew Barrett from Safety on Tap graces our show this week and discusses his professional journey in safety, safety management systems, safety professionals noble intent, new views of safety, learning teams and Safety on Tap. Influencial, intelligent and professional, these are how I see Andrew. Well worth a listen.Andrew (Baz) Barrett is a safety professional by training who has become ‘reformed' in many ways. Andrew recognised the need to create sustainable change in safety and that better individual, team and organisational learning leads to better results. This led to the creation of Safety on Tap - a change leadership company specialising in the development and growth of health and safety leaders, and more broadly, capability and innovation in the health and safety field. Safety on Tap supports large organisations across many industries to improve the safety of work, reduce safety clutter, and improve learning and operational performance. Andrew is the only specialist professional coach for health and safety professionals in Australia.  Andrew's work with health and safety leaders, their teams and exec is trusted by a diverse range of organisations and industries including Hansen Yuncken, Downer, Origin, Abergeldie Complex Infrastructure, the South Australian Government, Major Road Projects Victoria, Endeavour Energy, Brisbane Council, Adbri, Ausnet Services, Signal Energy, and Coca-Cola Amatil.  Andrew is also the host of the Safety on Tap podcast – he sparks thought-provoking conversations with interesting and inspiring people with different ideas, perspectives and stories. Delving into personal effectiveness, business strategy, people leadership, innovation and creativity. Links from this weeks podcast:LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-barrett-learning-coach/Website: http://www.safetyontap.com/Email: andrew@safetyontap.com Thanks for listening. We have some great guests coming up in future pods so get ready to learn. Until next time, enjoy the rest of your week, and stay safe. https://plus.acast.com/s/health-and-safety-conversations. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On the chat for the Stories from the Lake to Ocean 100k - Winter Edition we've got your race leaders! John Parker, he made to Hobe Sound Beach first with a time of 12:27. Eddy Souza come up next after almost getting beat by Maria Urso! She was hot on his heels as they entered the parking lot for an epic showdown final sprint to the ocean! She was followed up by Kailynn Violette who took fourth place with a time of 13:04. They absolutely crushed it out there! For me? I took the DNF at the Beeline crew stop at roughly 37 miles! I just want to give a huge shout-out to Jeff and Andrea... and everyone else who made this race possible. It was EPIC! From all the Lake to Ocean veterans to the virgins, everyone who toed the line had an amazing adventure. And, those who made it to Hobe Sound Beach like Andrew Barrett who completed his 8th finish of 9 starts out there. Leo Acosta, Micheal Strenzinski, Jessica Sohngen, Luis Cocco, Phillip Jackson, and Shawn Flannery who also completed the course!

This was the inaugural year for the Last of the Felascans in Alachua, Florida. Andy Sholly was the Last Person Standing with a total of 26 yards for 26 hours running a total of 103.34 miles! Sholly is no stranger to this race format having won the 2022 Death at Depuis here in Florida and won the Last at the Lake in West Point Lake, Georgia. Matt Clapper took second place this year and his final lap was a legendary tale. Clapper recently placed 10th Overall at the Pinellas Trail Challenge. Andrew Barrett joins the chat, like Matt, he also took on the Pinellas Trail Challenge the week prior. Andrew, also known as A2, has raced all over the world and across the country from UTMB to the Vermont 100, Rocky Racoon, Western States 100, Tuschars, Never Summer, and the North Face Endurance Challenge. He's also signed up for the 2023 Cocodona 250! Last but not least, we've got Theresa Patton, she was your last woman remaining in the race! She completed 12 hours and 50 miles! Enjoy as we ramble on through stories of feet, puke, hydration methods, and how the hours went down. It's an amazing event as everyone is competing meanwhile encouraging each other.

What is up and welcome to the Energized Show! On this episode Team Ireland & SBG Tullamore's Kieran Davern & Andrew Barrett join us to discuss the countdown to the 2022 IMMAF European Championships from Tuesday the 27th of September - Saturday the 1st of October, Irish MMA & More MMA craic. Like, Comment, Subscribe & Hit the notification bell for more Energized Shows! Follow us on: Youtube : Energized Show Instagram: @Energized_Show TikTok: @The_Energized_Show Twitter: @Energized_Show​​​ Facebook: Energized Show​​​ iTunes/Spotify/SoundCloud: Energized Show #IMMAF #IrishMMA #TeamIreland

What is up and welcome to Energized's "The Face Off" Show! On this episode Tiarnan Loughran (Team Kaobon) & Andrew Barrett (SBG Tullamore) join us to discuss the Countdown to their PFC Lightweight Title Fight on Saturday the 2nd of July in The Talbot Hotel, Clonmel. We discuss World Titles, Fighting & More MMA craic. Like, Comment and Subscribe for more Energized Shows! Follow us on: Instagram: @Energized_Show Twitter: @Energized_Show​​​ Facebook: Energized Show​​​ iTunes/Spotify/SoundCloud: Energized Show #EnergizedShow #TiarnanLoughran #AndrewBarrett

It was yet another year at the Lake to Ocean 100k for Andy “Croom” Mathews and Andrew Barrett! These two men have run every Lake to Ocean 100k to date. This course covers some of wettest terrain the state of Florida has to offer and takes you through Dupuis, JW Corbett, Hungryland, Riverbend, and Jonathan Dickinson and ends in the ocean Hobe Sound Beach! Jeff Stephens puts one heck of an event out there year after year. Just to add to the fun for this year, we also had a Tropical Storm come through too! The race started in not so bad conditions as runner took off from Lake Okeechobee into the 15 some miles across Dupius with a light sprinkle of rain. Dupius this year didn't really have any standing water, but that's until you entered JW Corbitt for another 15 plus miles slogging through the well known standing water of fun. The course stayed wet pretty much the entire way until you made it to the sand dunes in Jonathon Dickinson. From then on, you're just battling the sauna like conditions until you make to the ocean at Hobe Sound!

What is up and welcome to Energized's "The Face Off" Show! On this episode Ruairi Lavery (Team Torres) & Andrew Barrett (SBG Tullamore) join us to discuss the Countdown to their IUR Featherweight Title Fight on Saturday the 4th of June in The Canal Court Hotel, Newry. We discuss World Titles, Fighting & More MMA craic. Like, Comment and Subscribe for more Energized Shows! Follow us on: Instagram: @Energized_Show Twitter: @Energized_Show​​​ Facebook: Energized Show​​​ iTunes/Spotify/SoundCloud: Energized Show #EnergizedShow #RuairiLavery #AndrewBarrett

I know her personally, we were part of a business group a few years ago. Having gotten far more focussed and proactive with my overall financial goals and position in recent years, I asked this Financial Planner to come over and help us plan our finances. We prepared a lot, laid it all out - mortgage situation, credit, assets, a business, a family trust, a farming partnership, superannuation (401k), insurances, cash position, investments.....it was all there.   I wanted the Financial Planner to help challenge and refine our Financial Plans. I was confused when she kept suggesting that we really should buy more shares, and certainly move our insurances somewhere else. I just wanted a few hours of planning help I would gladly pay for. She left saying she would send some info, and I actually didn't hear from her.   It turns out the Financial Planner isn't interested in helping people with their financial planning, but to push them towards products and services for which they get a commission. Call me naive, I was still surprised. And I didn't get what I wanted. So I laughed when today's email said 'We've got solutions for all your finance needs' - EXCEPT THE ACTUAL PLANNING PART OF FINANCIAL PLANNING.

What words do you know people use to describe you, or your team? Not words you'd like them to say, but words they have actually said and you've heard directly or second hand?

What is up and welcome to the Energized Show! On this episode SBG Tullamore's Andrew Barrett & Jordan Scully join us to discuss becoming IMMAA National Champions, Representing Ireland & What's next for them. Like, Comment, Subscribe & Hit the notification bell for more Energized Shows! Follow us on: Instagram: @Energized_Show Twitter: @Energized_Show​​​ Facebook: Energized Show​​​ iTunes/Spotify/SoundCloud: Energized Show #AndrewBarrett #JordanScully #EnergizedShow

Gandhi did it with walking and without food.  Michael Pollan did it with food and a book.  Al Gore did it with a film.  Dave Grohl did it with Youtube in 2020, and Dave Provan did it with words in 2018.  Each of them, in defence of something important.  And so must you.    The word defence usually conjures up three different things for people.  Either, synonyms to do with the armed forces, war, and conflict, OR, playing defence in a sporting sense where there is an attacking side (again, very military-Esque), OR, being or feeling or acting defensively in the face of a personal attack.  Like a conflict.    Do any of those resonate with you as a part of your professional practice? Unfortunately, probably.    But that's not what I'm talking about today.    Today, I want you to begin to think about yourself as a defender.  But not any old defender, not like the images we talked about a moment ago.  No, You must be in defence, you must be a defender, like these people.   

This week on the show a trio of interviews with the people behind some amazing projects.First up, Erfan Saadati, co-creator of Child of Empire, joins us to talk about this stunning VR piece showing at Sundance's New Frontier that explores the human cost of the Partition of India: one of the largest forced migrations in human history. [6:00]Then Doug Jacobson, Athena Demos, and Andrew Barrett from Big Rock Creative drop by to talk about the upcoming BRCvr Film Festival which takes place next weekend. [25:00]Rounding out the program is Steve Jamison co-creator of On The Morning You Wake (To the End of the World), an incredible piece of VR documentary making that is also at the New Frontier at Sundance this year. [40:00]Plus Headlines and voting for the NoPro Audience Awards is now open, a link to the ballot and the full list of nominees can be found here. Associate Producer: Parker SelaMusic: Chris Porter Headlines: Kathryn Yu, Executive Editor of No ProsceniumProducer and Host: Noah Nelson    Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Let's talk about Linkedin, humanity, and being salesy.  I am connected with tens of thousands of people, in some direct way.  Whether that's someone who was seen me speak, been in a workshop, listened to my podcast, or connected on social media.    All of those are one-degree of separation, there is a direct link between me and them, between me and you. 

"Help me get people engaged".  "No one is engaged with health and safety".  "Engagement around here is pretty low".  Requests like this and their variations are some of the most common things people come to me for help with.  Health and safety have an engagement problem, but it's not limited to that. Gallup says only 36% of workers in the US are engaged at work.  And no one agrees on how we define engagement in any case.  What do we do?

What is up and welcome to Energized's "The Face Off" Show! On this episode Max Lally & Andrew Barrett join us to discuss the Countdown to their Cage Legacy Super Lightweight Fight on Saturday the 16th of October. We discuss World Titles, Fighting & More MMA craic. Like, Comment and Subscribe for more Energized videos! Follow us on: Instagram: @Energized_Show Twitter: @Energized_Show​​​ Facebook: Energized Show​​​ iTunes/Spotify/SoundCloud: Energized Show #EnergizedShow #CageLegacyMMA #IrishMMA

In today's episode of Pints and Perspectives Pastor Cullen talks again with Andrew Barrett, Truett Seminary Graduate and Pastor of Trinity Baptist Church in Newton, North Carolina about the ethic of marriage. They discuss several biblical passages as well as the ways in which we are supposed to handle ourselves through potential divorce. Happy Listening! If you would like to partner with us financially we would be honored and you can do so here: https://mywellhousechurch.churchcente... Our Socials: WellHouse Church Website: mywellhouse.church Instagram: @mywellhouse.church Facebook: @mywellhouse.church Youtube: Wellhouse Church - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1Ls... Pastor Cullen Instagram: @PastorCullen Facebook: @Pastor Cullen Youtube: @PastorCullen - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfUd... Clayton Instagram: @jcware99 Facebook: Clayton Ware Our Identity: WellHouse Church is a church seeking to reimagine what the church is. Too many people have been hurt by a church in their past, because church has become something that it was never meant to be: an event or building that we attend. At WellHouse, we believe that the people of God are the church and that the love of God should be experienced through the people of God. So, WellHouse has returned to a New Testament expression of our faith by meeting in homes and dedicating ourselves to: the teaching of the scriptures, the fellowship of the believers, the breaking of bread together, and praying together for one another. We are focused on being a genuine expression of Christian hospitality and service to our community and the people of our community. At WellHouse we want to be a place where people can Be Real, Be Relational, and Be Restored. As our leadership was dreaming up this vision, we looked at Scripture and saw that the earliest expressions of the church met in homes and it was rare that all of the believers were together. Today, most churches have found themselves spending a large portion of their budget on buildings that they rarely use. Not WellHouse. We want to keep our overhead low so we can spend our money on the things that matter, being the hands and feet of Jesus. So, we meet in the homes of our members for the majority of our meetings. Once per month, we all come together at a rented facility to devote our selves together as the whole church for the purpose of worshipping God together.

In this episode of Pints and Perspectives, Pastor Cullen is joined by his friend Andrew Barrett, Truett Seminary graduate and Pastor of Trinity Baptist Church in Newton North Carolina. In this episode they talk about an alternative canonical reading of the marriage and divorce story of the bible as well as a conversation about the power of God and his providence in matters of marriage and divorce. Happy Listening! If you would like to partner with us financially we would be honored and you can do so here: https://mywellhousechurch.churchcente... Our Socials: WellHouse Church Website: mywellhouse.church Instagram: @mywellhouse.church Facebook: @mywellhouse.church Youtube: Wellhouse Church - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1Ls... Pastor Cullen Instagram: @PastorCullen Facebook: @Pastor Cullen Youtube: @PastorCullen - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfUd... Clayton Instagram: @jcware99 Facebook: Clayton Ware Our Identity: WellHouse Church is a church seeking to reimagine what the church is. Too many people have been hurt by a church in their past, because church has become something that it was never meant to be: an event or building that we attend. At WellHouse, we believe that the people of God are the church and that the love of God should be experienced through the people of God. So, WellHouse has returned to a New Testament expression of our faith by meeting in homes and dedicating ourselves to: the teaching of the scriptures, the fellowship of the believers, the breaking of bread together, and praying together for one another. We are focused on being a genuine expression of Christian hospitality and service to our community and the people of our community. At WellHouse we want to be a place where people can Be Real, Be Relational, and Be Restored. As our leadership was dreaming up this vision, we looked at Scripture and saw that the earliest expressions of the church met in homes and it was rare that all of the believers were together. Today, most churches have found themselves spending a large portion of their budget on buildings that they rarely use. Not WellHouse. We want to keep our overhead low so we can spend our money on the things that matter, being the hands and feet of Jesus. So, we meet in the homes of our members for the majority of our meetings. Once per month, we all come together at a rented facility to devote our selves together as the whole church for the purpose of worshipping God together.

This is my live keynote speech delivered at the Safeguard 2019 Conference.  The theme of the conference was Dare to Disrupt.  That was an idea which I respectfully disagreed with and explained why in the opening keynote when I encouraged the audience, and you, to go disrupt yourself. 

Welcome to Season Four of Humans at Work. In this series, Being More Human's chief conversationalist Michelle Crawford talks with leaders about Creating Exceptional Teams. Today Michelle talks with Andrew Barrett from https://www.safetyontap.com/ —— Free resource: Life is not linear. We regularly and grow, shift and change, progress and regress. Take our Mindset Quiz today to learn about your current mindset, as well as gain practical ideas about exactly how to challenge that mindset!

I, like you, have been spending a lot of time in the same workplace for a while now, my home office.  And yet despite the amount of time I spend here, it was only recently that something struck me when I saw things that had been there the whole time but hadn't recognised for what they are.  My space, and probably yours, are filled with theatre props - the things which bring our professional performance to life. 

It's hard to focus on things that we can't see, that aren't visible to us.  It doesn't mean they aren't there, it's just that they aren't visible to us.  Having empathy for others, and appreciating that they have a perspective and experience which is 100% valid for them, can be a difficult thing to comprehend, let alone practice. 

50% of people will throw away a perfectly good waterproof garment because we think it has lost the ability to repel water. What it really needs is a good clean and reproofing! In this the second part of the series with Andrew Barrett from Grangers we talk in part about this study, and find out who he feels is a true Legend of a Brand. The grangers team have also offered listeners of this podcast 50% off purchases made on their website using the code using code LEGEND50

A waterproof garment is only REALLY waterproof thanks to a number of factors working together. In this, part one of a two part episode we speak with Andrew Barrett who is the European Sales manager for Grangers - and he takes on a journey of understanding of how things like GoreTex work to keep you dry, what DWR is and how they work together. He also shares with us some of the world first that Grangers created; and his story of coming to work with the the brand. The grangers team have also offered listeners of this podcast 50% off purchases made on their website using the code shared in this episode.

"Tried it before, and it didn't work" These are the words that we have all said to dismiss something out of hand, to reject a very broad or general idea or approach or suggestion . We can choose our words better, which means everyone learns more and is more informed about our experience.

Does philosophy really have a place in work health and safety? Here's what I discovered.   My earlier rejection of philosophy taught me how important philosophy actually is a conscious way of living and a competent approach to professional practice.   I might be wrong, but one thing philosophy does teach us, is that it's worth getting curious about.  I certainly have become a better professional because of it.

Andrew Barrett is a meditation teacher based in Venice, CA. He teaches an ancient, time-tested practice called Vedic Meditation. Vedic Meditation yields profound results through short, effective meditations that are easy to do. And the teaching itself is always comprehensive and personalized. He teaches meditation because the more people meditate, the happier and more enlightened the world becomes We had a great conversation about meditation -- how it reduces stress, why it's more restful than sleep, how it's NOT about stilling your mind. If you don’t know much about meditation and want an entry point, this conversation is for you, and if you feel like you know a lot about meditation, this conversation is also for you! I personally have taken his course and it was game changing for me. It is so approachable and he does such a fantastic job of making it relevant and helping you understand and incorporate it into your day to day. Give him an add on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/andrew.barrett.1238) and visit his site (https://the1percentproject.com/) to check out his upcoming retreats, classes and events.

Am I a cook or a chef? It turns out that has nothing to do with what I wear, or whether I have a certificate, it comes down to one simple thing.  And no, it's not a bad temper. 

Three times this week, I have come across this challenge in health and safety leaders.    Competent, intelligent, motivated health and safety leaders who want to make change.    Who hold back, are held back, from taking the next step, making the next intention a reality, for the same reason.    The words are different, but the cause is the same. 

What does a iPad, a 2B pencil, WISYWIG, and a microphone have in common? And how is that helpful for you as a leader? This episode is made possible by our mission of enabling better learning that improves performance in your organisation.

In this crossover episode, Jason van Schie makes a guest appearance on Safety on Tap with Andrew Barrett. Jason talks about the distinction between psychological safety and psychological health and safety (did you know they are two completely different concepts?); summarises the differences between Clinical and Organisational psychologists and the roles that both areas of practice play in psychological health and safety; explores the role of the employer in helping employees return to a state of positive mental health; and provides his thoughts on good starting points for organisations who want to improve their approach to psych health and safety.

This week’s podcast guest provided me with an opportunity to ask questions from a leader and entrepreneur perspective.  Andrew Barrett is the Executive Officer of the Rural Safety & Health Alliance and chief connector, coach and host of Safety on Tap.  As someone with significant expertise in health and safety, the discussion regarding leadership turned to discussing metaphors for how people interact at work.  He provided three examples - individuals interact as parts in a machine or viewing the organisation as an ecosystem or the most useful metaphor… humans interact through dialogue and create shared meaning through a collection of conversations.

The purpose of introducing anything new is NOT to have it perfect first time.  In fact, the results you get might not even be great, just average, nothing to write home about.     The ONE SINGLE UNIVERSAL purpose of introducing anything is to create the conditions so the right people say "yes, let's do that again".     That's how starting something once turns into real change.   

Grenade throwers.   You know them.   (Real people, with metaphorical grenades)   The people in your organisation who have a tendency, even a reputation to disrupt.   They throw grenades because they object, challenge or undermine things publicly, in groups.   And they throw grenades at a distance from the real issues, often under-informed, not engaged in any meaningful dialogue or constructive improvement.  

I am setting a goal to enable people like you to plan and implement 1000 learning teams in organisations just like yours, and this is your invitation to be part of it.  Learning teams, as they are referred to in the context of health and safety, are both awesome and problematic.  They are awesome because those of us who plan, facilitate, teach/coach/enable learning teams or anyone who has participated in them know their value.