Podcasts about safety conference

In this episode of The Health Coach Show, Shivaun Conn, dietitian and accredited health coach, is joined by Dr Suzy Green — a clinical and coaching psychologist, and Founder & CEO of The Positivity Institute.A leader in the complementary fields of Coaching Psychology and Positive Psychology, Suzy has published over twenty academic chapters and peer-reviewed journal articles. She is also the co-editor of Positive Psychology Coaching in Practice, Positive Psychology Coaching in the Workplace, and The Positivity Prescription.Suzy was a lecturer in the Master of Coaching Psychology program at the University of Sydney for ten years and is an Honorary Vice President of the International Society for Coaching Psychology.In this episode, we discuss:What is Positive Psychology Coaching?Positive psychology tools and approachesWeaving expertise into coachingResearch on coaching effectiveness for health outcomes and sustainable health behavioursHow coaches can benefit from expanding their learning in coaching psychologyCPD courses and events for coaches in coaching psychology and positive psychology coachingLinks Suzy's new course the Professional Certificate in Positive Psychology Coaching. Earlybird ends March 31stOur latest events including the Psych Health & Safety Conference in JuneThe new series of COACH+ The Art & Science of Positive Psychology Coaching 

AMTA's Kelsey Hipkin and Michelle Spacil chat with Arlene Ledi-Thom, President and Board of Directors and Chair of the Society, with the Health and Safety Conference Society of Alberta (HSCSA).In our conversation, we discuss the Health and Safety Conference and how AMTA came to be involved, the importance of all the health and safety-related industries coming together to collaborate, and what we can expect from this year's conference.If you would like to learn more about the Alberta Health and Safety Conference, please contact Arlene at info@hsconference.ca or visit the website: https://hsconference.ca/ Register here to attend the upcoming 22nd Alberta Health and Safety Conference on April 2 & 3, 2025, at the Westin Calgary Airport, and check out the exhibitor, attendee, and sponsorship information.Tickets for AMTA's Annual Conference, April 8-10, 2025, River Cree Resort and Casino, Edmonton, are available now on our website. The deadline to register for the Annual Conference or Awards Celebration is April 1, 2025.AMTA Award nominations are now open! - Including our Safety Person of the Year Award.Every year, AMTA celebrates the brightest and best of industry who make outstanding contributions to the commercial transportation industry and the Association through these awards. Our winners will be announced at our 2025 Awards Celebration Dinner during our Annual Conference in April. Submit your nominations here. Nominations must be submitted by NOON, Friday, February 14, 2025Distracted driving is a growing threat on Alberta's roads, contributing to thousands of convictions and countless preventable collisions each year. At AMTA, we're taking action to make a difference—starting with you. Through education, awareness, and a shared commitment, we can reduce distracted driving incidents and create safer roadways for everyone. Take the AMTA Distracted Driving Pledge on our website and show your dedication to driving focused. Together, we can change habits, save lives, and set a new standard for safety on the road. If you have any questions or concerns about topics related to what was discussed in this episode, or commercial transportation and driver safety, please do not hesitate to contact our Member Services team at memberservices@amta.ca.Listeners, don't forget about the AMTA Mailbag! We want to hear from you with your industry queries. DM us with your questions and we will answer via the AMTA Mailbag segment in future episodes or directly via our team of advisors.   Join the conversation at: Web: amta.ca X: AMTA_ca Instagram: amta_ca/  Facebook: AlbertaMotorTransportAssociationLinkedIn: alberta-motor-transport-association Thank you for taking the time to listen, we encourage you to share this episode with those in your network who would receive value from our conversation. Make sure to hit that subscribe button and have a safe day! 

For our 2024 round up episode we're again chatting with Karin Rudolph about the AI Ethics Risk and Safety Conference, the EU AI Act, agent based AI and Advertising! AI search and access to information, conflicting goals of many AI agents, weaponising disinformation, freedoms of speech, the LLM plateau, shadow AI, and more...

Kerry County Council and Age Friendly Kerry hosted a road safety conference for older drivers. Eimear Nagle and Mikey Whelan from Kerry College’s course in journalism, podcasting, and radio went to the event which was held in the Rose Hotel, Tralee. They spoke to Declan Keogh, Kerry County Council’s road safety officer, Tim O’Donoghue from Driving Assessments and Services in Limerick, who was a speaker at the event, to some of the attendees and to Anna May McHugh of the National Ploughing Association, who is 90, and was also a speaker.

This conversation delves into the complexities of fire safety in high-rise buildings, highlighting the upcoming conference aimed at addressing these issues. The discussion covers the evolution of fire safety practices, international case studies, the challenges posed by single staircase designs, and the importance of effective evacuation strategies. It also emphasizes the need for innovation in fire safety solutions and the critical role of fire doors in preventing fire spread. The conversation looks at emerging trends in building design and safety regulations.We also delve into the complexities of fire safety in residential buildings, particularly focusing on high-rise structures. We cover various aspects such as the importance of fire doors, the challenges faced by building managers, innovations in fire safety technology, and the human factors that complicate fire safety management. Russ also highlights the significance of tenant engagement and international perspectives on fire safety practices. Overall, the conversation emphasizes the need for collaboration and shared knowledge to improve fire safety standards.GET YOUR TICKET TO The International Tall Building Fire Safety Conference HEREWe only feature the latest 200 episodes of the podcast on public platforms so to access our podcast LIBRARY, every Debrief & document CLICK HEREPODCAST GIFT - Get your FREE subscription to essential Firefighting publications HERE A big thanks to our partners for supporting this episode.GORE-TEX Professional ClothingMSA The Safety CompanyPATROL STORE UKIDEXHAIX FootwearGRENADERIP INTO Podcast ApparelLyfe Linez -  Get Functional Hydration FUEL for FIREFIGHTERS, Clean no sugar  for daily hydration. 80% of people live dehydrated and  for firefighters this costHibern8 - a plant based sleep aid specially designed to promote a restful night's sleep and awaken you feeling refreshed and energisedPlease support the podcast and its future by clicking HERE and joining our Patreon Crew

The Shift Everything podcast visited the 2024 Illinois School Safety Conference to learn more about the annual event, advancements in school safety technology, and why it's important for law enforcement to build trust with students and school staff.

Join us for an insightful podcast episode as we dive into the details of the upcoming iP Utility Safety Conference & Expo, happening in Dallas, Texas, from October 22-24. In this episode, we'll discuss the conference's robust educational lineup, featuring top industry experts, hands-on exhibits with 90+ vendors, and invaluable networking opportunities. From pre-conference workshops to a fun welcome reception at a unique venue, this event promises to enhance your safety expertise and connect you with peers who face the same challenges. Don't miss out on earning CUSP points and engaging with key leaders in the field!   ⚡️ Saddle Up for Safety at the iP Utility Safety Conference & Expo! ⚡️   The wait is over—the agenda is now LIVE on our website!

It's back! Jill sat down with EHS professionals who were attending this year's ASSP's Safety Conference and Expo in Denver, Colorado. She talked with people from many different industries and asked what their favorite part of being a safety professional is, advice for other professionals, favorite success stories, and what the future of EHS looks like to them. thank you to those EHS pros who stopped by the HSI booth and contributed to this podcast. See you again next year!

It's back! Jill sat down with EHS professionals who were attending this year's ASSP's Safety Conference and Expo in Denver, Colorado. She talked with people from many different industries and asked what their favorite part of being a safety professional, advice for other professionals, favorite success stories, and what the future of EHS looks like to them. thank you to those EHS pros who stopped by the HSI booth and contributed to this podcast. See you again next year!

On this episode of our award-winning podcast, we finish our feature on an organization that has made huge strides in reducing Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs) throughout health system. We will discuss the phenomenal results of the initiative so far and what is planned for the near future at Sanford Health.   Moderator: Tomas Villanueva, DO, MBA, FACPE, SFHM Senior Principal Clinical Operations and Quality Vizient   Guests: Rachel Leyk, RN, CMSRN, CPHQ Improvement Advisor Quality and Safety – Fargo Sanford Health   Devendranath (Dev) Mannuru, MD, CHCOM Internal Medicine Hospitalist CDI and Quality Physician Advisor Sanford Hospital – Fargo   Khaled Zreik, MD Director, Critical Care Acute Care Surgeon Sanford Health   Show Notes: [00:39] Use of data in managing PSI reduction [03:14] Results of a successful program [04:05] Lessons learned [08:15] Expanding and standardizing throughout the enterprise   Links | Resources: To contact Modern Practice: modernpracticepodcast@vizientinc.com Rachel Leyk's email: rachel.leyk@sanfordhealth.org Dr. Mannuru's email: devendranath.mannuru@sanfordhealth.org Dr. Zreik's email: khaled.zreik@sanfordhealth.org PSI ACS Poster: PSI ACS Poster 2023 Quality and Safety Conference presentation: 2023 QSC presentation   Subscribe Today! Apple Podcasts Amazon Podcasts Android Spotify RSS Feed

On this episode of Modern Practice, we continue highlighting an organization that has made huge strides in reducing Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs) throughout health system.   Moderator: Tomas Villanueva, DO, MBA, FACPE, SFHM Senior Principal Clinical Operations and Quality Vizient Guests: Rachel Leyk, RN, CMSRN, CPHQ Improvement Advisor Quality and Safety – Fargo Sanford Health Devendranath (Dev) Mannuru, MD, CHCOM Internal Medicine Hospitalist CDI and Quality Physician Advisor Sanford Hospital – Fargo Khaled Zreik, MD Director, Critical Care Acute Care Surgeon Sanford Health   Show Notes: [01:06] Managing PSI notifications to staff – keeping it non-punitive [03:46 Escalation process versus peer review – addressing practice variation [05:12] Keys to achieving collaboration   Links | Resources: To contact Modern Practice: modernpracticepodcast@vizientinc.com Rachel Leyk's email: rachel.leyk@sanfordhealth.org Dr. Mannuru's email: devendranath.mannuru@sanfordhealth.org Dr. Zreik's email: khaled.zreik@sanfordhealth.org PSI ACS Poster: PSI ACS Poster Final.pdf 2023 Quality and Safety Conference presentation: 2023-qsc-ppt-final presentation.pptx   Subscribe Today! Apple Podcasts Amazon Podcasts Android Spotify RSS Feed    

This episode of our award-winning podcast continues the success story of how Sanford Health has reduced PSIs through a concerted, multifaceted effort throughout the organization. Tomas interviews members of the clinical team that guided the way.   Moderator: Tomas Villanueva, DO, MBA, FACPE, SFHM Senior Principal Clinical Operations and Quality Vizient Guests: Rachel Leyk, RN, CMSRN, CPHQ Improvement Advisor Quality and Safety – Fargo Sanford Health Devendranath (Dev) Mannuru, MD, CHCOM Internal Medicine Hospitalist CDI and Quality Physician Advisor Sanford Hospital – Fargo Khaled Zreik, MD Director, Critical Care Acute Care Surgeon Sanford Health   Show Notes: [00:34] Surgeon's perspective [02:04 Role of nurse reviewer [03:18] Necessities for success [04:05] Importance of executive leadership; need to be non-punitive (the “gold nugget”) [06:37] Reliable software and establishing the stop bill process [08:15] Involving HIM, coding and the CDI team [10:36] Engaging the clinical staff     Links | Resources: To contact Modern Practice: modernpracticepodcast@vizientinc.com Rachel Leyk's email: rachel.leyk@sanfordhealth.org Dr. Mannuru's email: devendranath.mannuru@sanfordhealth.org Dr. Zreik's email: khaled.zreik@sanfordhealth.org PSI ACS Poster: PSI ACS Poster Final.pdf 2023 Quality and Safety Conference presentation: 2023-qsc-ppt-final presentation.pptx   Subscribe Today! Apple Podcasts Amazon Podcasts Android Spotify RSS Feed

Developed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Patient Safety Indicators, or PSIs, represent measurements of adverse events that enable healthcare organizations to gauge how they compare to others regarding patient safety. In addition, CMS looks at PSIs in scoring and penalizing organizations. In this series, Tomas talks with members of a clinical team that has seen great results in reducing PSIs throughout the organization.   Moderator: Tomas Villanueva, DO, MBA, FACPE, SFHM Senior Principal Clinical Operations and Quality Vizient Guests: Rachel Leyk, RN, CMSRN, CPHQ Improvement Advisor Quality and Safety – Fargo Sanford Health Devendranath (Dev) Mannuru, MD, CHCOM Internal Medicine Hospitalist CDI and Quality Physician Advisor Sanford Hospital – Fargo Khaled Zreik, MD Director, Critical Care Acute Care Surgeon Sanford Health   Show Notes: [02:00] Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs) defined [02:46] PSI-90 and individual PSIs [03:43] Hospital Acquired Conditions Reduction Program (HACRP) [05:06] Documentation and the “dotted line” to quality [05:44] Benchmarking with the Vizient Clinical Data Base [06:23] Focused objectives for the PSI reduction program [07:34] Steps in building the program structure [09:35] Addressing gaps in education – once clinicians know what to do, they don't fail   Links | Resources: To contact Modern Practice: modernpracticepodcast@vizientinc.com Rachel Leyk's email: rachel.leyk@sanfordhealth.org Dr. Mannuru's email: devendranath.mannuru@sanfordhealth.org Dr. Zreik's email: khaled.zreik@sanfordhealth.org PSI ACS Poster: PSI ACS Poster Final.pdf 2023 Quality and Safety Conference presentation: 2023-qsc-ppt-final presentation.pptx   Subscribe Today! Apple Podcasts Amazon Podcasts Android Spotify RSS Feed

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: We ran an AI safety conference in Tokyo. It went really well. Come next year!, published by Blaine on July 18, 2024 on LessWrong. Abstract Technical AI Safety 2024 (TAIS 2024) was a conference organised by AI Safety 東京 and Noeon Research, in collaboration with Reaktor Japan, AI Alignment Network and AI Industry Foundation. You may have heard of us through ACX. The goals of the conference were 1. demonstrate the practice of technical safety research to Japanese researchers new to the field 2. share ideas among established technical safety researchers 3. establish a good international reputation for AI Safety 東京 and Noeon Research 4. establish a Schelling conference for people working in technical safety We sent out a survey after the conference to get feedback from attendees on whether or not we achieved those goals. We certainly achieved goals 1, 2 and 3; goal 4 remains to be seen. In this post we give more details about the conference, share results from the feedback survey, and announce our intentions to run another conference next year. Okay but like, what was TAIS 2024? Technical AI Safety 2024 (TAIS 2024) was a small non-archival open academic conference structured as a lecture series. It ran over the course of 2 days from April 5th-6th 2024 at the International Conference Hall of the Plaza Heisei in Odaiba, Tokyo. We had 18 talks covering 6 research agendas in technical AI safety: Mechanistic Interpretability Developmental Interpretability Scaleable Oversight Agent Foundations Causal Incentives ALIFE …including talks from Hoagy Cunningham (Anthropic), Noah Y. Siegel (DeepMind), Manuel Baltieri (Araya), Dan Hendrycks (CAIS), Scott Emmons (CHAI), Ryan Kidd (MATS), James Fox (LISA), and Jesse Hoogland and Stan van Wingerden (Timaeus). In addition to our invited talks, we had 25 submissions, of which 19 were deemed relevant for presentation. 5 were offered talk slots, and we arranged a poster session to accommodate the remaining 14. In the end, 7 people presented posters, 5 in person and 2 in absentia. Our best poster award was won jointly by Fazl Berez for Large Language Models Relearn Removed Concepts and Alex Spies for Structured Representations in Maze-Solving Transformers. We had 105 in-person attendees (including the speakers). Our live streams had around 400 unique viewers, and maxed out at 18 concurrent viewers. Recordings of the conference talks are hosted on our youtube channel. How did it go? Very well, thanks for asking! We sent out a feedback survey after the event, and got 68 responses from in-person attendees (58% response rate). With the usual caveats that survey respondents are not necessarily a representative sample of the population: Looking good! Let's dig deeper. How useful was TAIS 2024 for those new to the field? Event satisfaction was high across the board, which makes it hard to tell how relatively satisfied population subgroups were. Only those who identified themselves as "new to AI safety" were neutrally satisfied, but the newbies were also the most likely to be highly satisfied. It seems that people new to AI safety had no more or less trouble understanding the talks than those who work for AI safety organisations or have published AI safety research: They were also no more or less likely to make new research collaborations: Note that there is substantial overlap between some of these categories, especially for categories that imply a strong existing relationship to AI safety, so take the above charts with a pinch of salt: Total New to AI safety Part of the AI safety community Employed by an AI safety org Has published AI safety research New to AI safety 26 100% 19% 12% 4% Part of the AI safety community 28 18% 100% 36% 32% Employed by an AI safety org 20 15% 50% 100% 35% Has published AIS research 13 8% 69% 54% 100% Subjectively, it fe...

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: We ran an AI safety conference in Tokyo. It went really well. Come next year!, published by Blaine on July 18, 2024 on LessWrong. Abstract Technical AI Safety 2024 (TAIS 2024) was a conference organised by AI Safety 東京 and Noeon Research, in collaboration with Reaktor Japan, AI Alignment Network and AI Industry Foundation. You may have heard of us through ACX. The goals of the conference were 1. demonstrate the practice of technical safety research to Japanese researchers new to the field 2. share ideas among established technical safety researchers 3. establish a good international reputation for AI Safety 東京 and Noeon Research 4. establish a Schelling conference for people working in technical safety We sent out a survey after the conference to get feedback from attendees on whether or not we achieved those goals. We certainly achieved goals 1, 2 and 3; goal 4 remains to be seen. In this post we give more details about the conference, share results from the feedback survey, and announce our intentions to run another conference next year. Okay but like, what was TAIS 2024? Technical AI Safety 2024 (TAIS 2024) was a small non-archival open academic conference structured as a lecture series. It ran over the course of 2 days from April 5th-6th 2024 at the International Conference Hall of the Plaza Heisei in Odaiba, Tokyo. We had 18 talks covering 6 research agendas in technical AI safety: Mechanistic Interpretability Developmental Interpretability Scaleable Oversight Agent Foundations Causal Incentives ALIFE …including talks from Hoagy Cunningham (Anthropic), Noah Y. Siegel (DeepMind), Manuel Baltieri (Araya), Dan Hendrycks (CAIS), Scott Emmons (CHAI), Ryan Kidd (MATS), James Fox (LISA), and Jesse Hoogland and Stan van Wingerden (Timaeus). In addition to our invited talks, we had 25 submissions, of which 19 were deemed relevant for presentation. 5 were offered talk slots, and we arranged a poster session to accommodate the remaining 14. In the end, 7 people presented posters, 5 in person and 2 in absentia. Our best poster award was won jointly by Fazl Berez for Large Language Models Relearn Removed Concepts and Alex Spies for Structured Representations in Maze-Solving Transformers. We had 105 in-person attendees (including the speakers). Our live streams had around 400 unique viewers, and maxed out at 18 concurrent viewers. Recordings of the conference talks are hosted on our youtube channel. How did it go? Very well, thanks for asking! We sent out a feedback survey after the event, and got 68 responses from in-person attendees (58% response rate). With the usual caveats that survey respondents are not necessarily a representative sample of the population: Looking good! Let's dig deeper. How useful was TAIS 2024 for those new to the field? Event satisfaction was high across the board, which makes it hard to tell how relatively satisfied population subgroups were. Only those who identified themselves as "new to AI safety" were neutrally satisfied, but the newbies were also the most likely to be highly satisfied. It seems that people new to AI safety had no more or less trouble understanding the talks than those who work for AI safety organisations or have published AI safety research: They were also no more or less likely to make new research collaborations: Note that there is substantial overlap between some of these categories, especially for categories that imply a strong existing relationship to AI safety, so take the above charts with a pinch of salt: Total New to AI safety Part of the AI safety community Employed by an AI safety org Has published AI safety research New to AI safety 26 100% 19% 12% 4% Part of the AI safety community 28 18% 100% 36% 32% Employed by an AI safety org 20 15% 50% 100% 35% Has published AIS research 13 8% 69% 54% 100% Subjectively, it fe...

In this episode, Australian hosts Jason and Joelle chat with Liz Payne, Head of Organisational Development & Learning at the Southern Eastern Sydney Local Health District and most recently, the chair of the inaugural Psych Health and Safety Conference (PHS Con 2024). During this lively conversation, Liz, Joelle and Jason recap highlights from the PHS Con 2024. This included the live podcast recordings with Michael Leiter and Christina Maslach of burnout fame, the fantastic interview of USA podcast I. David Daniels on inclusivity in crafting psychologically healthy work, the emotional and inspiring interview of Zagi Kozarov on her High Court battle, the insights delivered by regulators, and the 10-year anniversary panel of the integrated approach to workplace mental health. Missed the conference? Post-event access is now available at www.phscon.com

In this special 100th episode of the Psych Health & Safety USA Podcast, Dr I. David Daniels is interviewed by Wade Needham, live at The Psych Health and Safety Conference in Sydney. Dr. Daniels discusses practical strategies for leaders to foster an inclusive environment. He emphasizes the challenges and benefits of diverse teams, highlighting actionable steps to enhance the leadership approach and promote a culture of belonging. Insights on acknowledging and embracing differences, leveraging diverse experiences for innovation, and real-world examples provide valuable guidance for creating a cohesive and high-performing team.

In this special eddition episode we hear vox-pops recorded at the AI Ethics, Risks and Safety Conference in Bristol on the 15th of May 2024. We hear about AI regulations, AI Standards, AI Ethics frameworks, principles, ethics guiding research, awareness of the ethics of AI, and explainable AI.

What did you think? We'd love to hear your thoughts.We are sharing this audio with permission, from a recording done by the Minnesota Trucking Association at their 2023 Safety Conference. Autumn Transport  CEO Julie Andrich gave a keynote speech about how to keep things safe, even when she, or safety personal, have left the building. Enjoy!You can listen to other interesting MTA podcasts on their website: mntrucking.org/podcast.

In the eighth episode of this multipart podcast series, Bill Martin, CUSP, president and CEO of Think Tank Project LLC (www.thinkprojectllc.com), and host Kate Wade discuss a host of topics and what they are seeing in the safety world, and how to change it!   This podcast discusses safety in the utility industry. Here are the key points: Safety conferences are not leading to a decrease in accidents. Bill Martin, a safety consultant, argues that the safety information is not being translated into actionable steps for workers. Focus on worker-centered safety. Instead of top-down safety initiatives, Bill Martin proposes a worker-centered approach where workers are involved in creating and implementing safety measures. The current safety approach might not consider human biology. Bill Martin argues that safety messages need to consider how the human brain reacts to stimuli in order to be effective. We need to connect with workers on a human level. Bill Martin emphasizes the importance of building relationships and trust with workers to create a safer work environment. Younger generations may hold the key to safety improvements. Bill Martin believes younger generations have the potential to improve safety practices if they are taught how to connect and be curious. Listen to the other 7 parts of this special series with Bill Martin, CUSP. To share feedback about this podcast, reach Bill at influenceteamdynamics@gmail.com and Kate at kwade@utilitybusinessmedia.com.   Subscribe to Incident Prevention Magazine - https://incident-prevention.com/subscribe-now/   ________________________________ This podcast is sponsored by T&D Powerskills. If you are looking for a comprehensive lineworker training solution, visit tdpowerskills.com today and use the exclusive podcast listener promo code IP2024 to receive a 5% discount!

 World's Leading Thinkers on High-Rise Fire Safety Coming to FDIC International 2024 -  The 8th International Tall Building/High Rise Conference will make its US debut April 15-18, 2024 alongside FDIC International in Indianapolis, Indiana. The event, recognized by the Institution of Fire Engineers (IFE), will bring delegates together with speakers from around the world for three days to provide valuable insights into current best practices, tall building fire safety innovation, and relevant high-fire safety issues including façade testing, 2nd stair debate, smoke hoods, green walls, electric vehicles, PV panels, tall timber, means of escape for vulnerable people, smoke control, high-rise firefighting, drones, hoarding residents, balcony fire risks, new generation fire detection, case studies, car parks, high-rise construction, lithium-ion batteries, tenant/resident engagement, arson prevention, fire engineering developments, and lots more. Link to Tall Building conference HEREWe only feature the latest 200 episodes of the podcast on public platforms so to access our podcast LIBRARY with every episode ever made & also get access to every Debrief & Subject Matter expert document shard with us then join our PATREON crew and support the future of the podcast by clicking HEREA big thanks to our partners for supporting this episode.GORE-TEX Professional ClothingMSA The Safety CompanyHAIX FootwearGRENADERIP INTOLyfe Linez -  Get Functional Hydration FUEL for FIREFIGHTERS, Clean no sugar  for daily hydration. 80% of people live dehydrated and  for firefighters this cost lives, worsens our long term health and reduces cognitive ability.Please support the podcast and its future by clicking HERE and joining our Patreon Crew

Welcome to the next installment of the Anesthesia Patient Safety podcast hosted by Alli Bechtel.  This podcast is an exciting journey towards improved anesthesia patient safety.Tune in today as we begin our coverage of the first International Conference on Anesthesia Patient Safety 2024. Our show today reviews the APSF Newsletter: Past, Present, and Future Directions and what we have learned from the Covid-19 pandemic when it comes to emerging infectious diseases and perioperative medical supplies. Don't miss this show if you want some answers to the questions regarding the Covid-19 pandemics: What worked? What didn't work? What do we need to do differently next time?Additional sound effects from: Zapsplat.For show notes & transcript, visit our episode page at apsf.org: https://www.apsf.org/podcast/190-the-first-international-anesthesia-patient-safety-conference-recap-part-1/© 2024, The Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation

In this special episode, brought to you by a collaboration between The Tactics Meeting Podcast and Crowley Maritime, , we dive into the intricate world of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), exploring its science, inherent dangers, and the critical measures in place for its safe handling and distribution. Join us as Christopher Deschenes and Rami Abusoufeh from Crowley, Jim Elliott from T&T Salvage, and Captain Kuldeep Singh from Gallagher Marine Services share their expertise on LNG's role in global energy, the risks and precautions associated with its bunkering and transportation, and the strategies for responding to LNG-related incidents. This comprehensive discussion aims to enlighten listeners on the importance of safety protocols and innovations in the LNG industry, offering insights into the challenges and solutions in managing this vital energy resource.

This year, I'm focusing on personal development and growth. My friend Barry Young from Serving Watchman invited me to his June conference in Kansas City. Here's my talk with Barry about his prevention-focused event, the Church Security: National Peer Support Chaplain & Safety Conference. Don't miss our weekly "Church Crime Watch Report" delivered to your email every Monday. https://www.worshipsecurity.org/churchcrimewatch For Simon's personalized assistance in risk assessments, emergency planning, or security training, contact Simon at team@worshipsecurity.org

This week on The Home Defense Show Skip speaks with Amanda Wynsma who gives us all the details on this year's annual Church Safety Conference. If you have a team or are thinking about forming one, this show's for you!

Skip the Queue is brought to you by Rubber Cheese, a digital agency that builds remarkable systems and websites for attractions that helps them increase their visitor numbers. Your host is  Kelly Molson, Founder of Rubber Cheese.Download the Rubber Cheese 2023 Visitor Attraction Website Report - the annual benchmark statistics for the attractions sector.If you like what you hear, you can subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, and all the usual channels by searching Skip the Queue or visit our website rubbercheese.com/podcast.If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave us a five star review, it really helps others find us. And remember to follow us on Twitter for your chance to win the books that have been mentioned in this podcastCompetition ends on 20th December 2023. The winner will be contacted via Twitter.  Show references: https://vectis.ventures/https://robin-hill.com/https://blackgangchine.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/dominic-wray-a1b52766/Dominic Wray is the Parks Director of Vectis Ventures, the parent company of the Isle of Wights two leading attractions; Robin Hill, and the UK's oldest theme park, Blackgang Chine. After 7 years of running Blackgang Chine as the Park Manager, he stepped into his role as Parks Director to play a vital position in the planning and execution of the longer term business strategy. Having been in this role for around 15 months, he has led on some big changes and transformations within the business, as well as navigating what has been a challenging year for the leisure industry as a whole. Dominic attributes much of his success, and enjoyment of his career to the people in it. Sitting on the Management Committee for BALPPA, he is a huge advocate for industry networking and enabling peer to peer learning opportunities. He then uses this platform as a way to the develop the team that he is so passionate about, allowing them to flourish into the industry known experts of their fields. Transcriptions: Kelly Molson: Welcome to Skip the Queue, a podcast for people working in or working with visitor attractions. I'm your host, Kelly Molson. Each episode, I speak with industry experts from the attractions world. On today's episode, I speak with Dominic Wray, Parks Director at Vectis Ventures. We talk about Blackgang Chine, the 180 year old attraction, and Dominic shares his three top tips on transforming processes and developing superstar people. If you like what you hear, you can subscribe on all the usual channels by searching Skip the Queue. Welcome to the podcast, Dominic. It's great to have you on today. Dominic Wray: Thanks for having me. Looking forward to it. Kelly Molson: Everyone says that at the start, and then I give them icebreaker questions, and they hate me. But this is how the podcast always starts, so you have to do them. Right. If you could enter the Olympics for anything, what would you be Olympic level at? And we're not talking it doesn't have to be sports here. It could be like baking or Olympic level complainer. Anything goes. What's your Olympic level at? Dominic Wray: I think I would actually answer the sports based question answered that. I always, when I was growing up, wanted to play in the NBA. Basketball was a big passion of mine. So I'd say I'd want to enter the Olympics as a basketball player. Kelly Molson: Okay. And do you play now? Is this something that you are actually good at? Dominic Wray: Not so much now, no. I don't want to use the old adage if I got injured, but I did. Kelly Molson: Oh, no. Dominic Wray: We'll never know if I could have made it or not. Kelly Molson: Good one. Have you ever been mistaken for someone famous? Dominic Wray: Yeah, actually, yes, twice. Someone once said to me I look like Joel Dormot. I think he's a comedian. And some of the team seemed to think I look like Mark Wright. Kelly Molson: I know this one. So I saw the picture that Laura Baxter posted of your LinkedIn. I have to say, I did a second look, Mark. Dominic Wray: Yeah. I mean, I'll take it. I think Mark Wright's the right looking chap, so could be worse, I suppose. Kelly Molson: Okay. All right. A final one. What one thing would you make a law that isn't already? I've got a good one for this. So if I could be in charge of laws, I would make it a law that nobody could just stop in the middle of the pavement and look at their mobile phone, or walk upstairs with their mobile staring at their mobile phone, not actually looking where they're going, because it just makes me want to swipe people's legs away. Because they just stop in front of you or they walk really slowly up the stairs. That would be one of mine. Dominic Wray: I'd go with, everyone needs to learn how to go through security at an airport. There's nothing more frustrating when you get there and the person in front of you isn't aware of how to go through and then there's a bit that delays the queues. Kelly Molson: Good one. That's a really good one. They get quite shouty, the security people now, don't they? When you're queuing up like, they're shouting at you about your liquids and your jackets and you take your belts off, and I'm like, "If I take my belt off, my trousers are going to fall down. I'm not even halfway there yet." I like that one. Okay, what's your unpopular opinion? Dominic Wray: My unpopular opinion is that motorists ruined the road for cyclists. Which I'm sure will be incredibly controversial. Yeah, that's my unpopular opinion. Kelly Molson: This is going to be a controversial one and I really want to know what you think about this one, listeners. Yeah, I don't agree with you, but you are a hardcore cyclist. I'm going op guess.Dominic Wray: I do pay my road tax, drive a car myself, but yeah, someone that very much enjoys road cycling. Yeah, that is definitely my viewpoint on other motorists. Kelly Molson: I think there needs to be made room for both on the roads. There's not sufficient cycle lanes in areas where there should be sufficient cycle lanes. Although I live just outside Cambridge and Cambridge is pretty good for cyclists. If this was me, I would ban cyclists from cycling through the city centre of Cambridge, because the amount of times I've nearly been run over by cyclists in the city centre is quite a lot. Dominic Wray: I will say. Not every cyclist is respectful of most receivers. It is a two way street, quite literally. Do you understand that? Kelly Molson: I like this. Right, okay, listeners, what do you think about the unpopular opinion? I feel like I've just got myself in hot water with all my Cambridge cycling friends as well. Dominic Wray: They're all going to be kicking off. Kelly Molson: We're all in trouble. We're in trouble together, Dom. It's fine. Right, tell us a little bit about your background, because you have come into attractions not from an attractions background, and I always find this quite fascinating, how people end up within the sector. You've come from banking, right? Dominic Wray: Yes, yes. I started off my career when I left school selling houses, and then I moved into banking after that. I used to work for Lloyds Bank and one of my clients was our current HR director here, lady called Paula, and I used to see her every year. She'd come in, talk about this great place that she worked and all these fun projects she was working on and how magical it was. And I remember sort of sat there thinking, "Gosh, your job sounds really interesting and you're working on these varied projects and you're getting to experience loads of cool things." She was talking to me about fireworks events and dinosaurs and cowboys and pirates. I was thinking, "I'm saya, talking about savings accounts and loans and boring stuff that comes to banking." Dominic Wray: And then one day I saw an advert in our local paper on the island for a Park Manager role for Blackgang Chine. Which is the park that Paula worked at, and I read through it and I thought, “Okay, yeah, I can do this. It sounds like I've got the skill set to do this.” Not really knowing anything about running a visitor attraction at all. So off I went to the interview, got my job and I thought, “Oh, great, yeah, if I can sell houses and I can run a bank, the only I could run a visitor attraction.” It's just taking those skills and applying them across into a different sector. Dominic Wray: Eight or nine years later, still here now and lot of a big learning curve along the way, but yeah, not a traditional route into it, but Blackgang on the island is a very iconic visitor attraction. All the children on the island have been there, had very fond memories of coming here as a child and I just thought, “Wow, what an opportunity to wake up every day and go to work in a fun”, magical place that's the complete opposite from the confines of a bank. So I thought, “Yeah, I'm going to back myself and go for it and do it.”Kelly Molson: How weird is that? Knowing that you went there as a child as well and now you actually run the place. That's massive, isn't it? Dominic Wray: Yeah, when I'm walking around, there's lots of areas of the park that are still the same and happened for many years and they carry great sentiments or walking through certain areas and they hear certain sounds or certain smells in the park and it takes you back to being a kid every day. So it's quite a magical place to work. Kelly Molson: That's really sweet. And so what was that transition like? Because I've just got this vision of you kind of like rocking up on the first day and going, "Where do I start?". Dominic Wray: Yeah. So on day one when I arrived, the gentleman who was doing the role beforehand had left. So I had a laptop set of keys and they sort, "Off you go.. And I was like, "OK, I've got to have to work this out", which I did. I was lucky enough to go to IAAPA in Orlando and I went on a week long training course, management course there around Park Management of Visitor Attractions, which I think was really interesting, really useful, gave me a great insight into the attraction space. And then I've worked through that by learning about the various different departments and functionalities of the business along the way. But it was a big change for me to go from working for a large corporate company to moving to a family owned company. Dominic Wray: Blackgang Chine has been owned by the same family for 180 years, which is the Dabell family. So it was a big shift for me from having multiple layers of people and it taking weeks to get a decision to just having to go and speak to one person as long as they say, "Yes", you're on your way. So it's enjoyable working for a much more dynamic organization where you can pivot more quickly. And that was sort of one of the surprising things, having come from a bigger company, how quickly things can move and change. But I think that's a real positive fallout. Kelly Molson: Yeah, definitely. I love that you did like a crash course, you did like your crash course, your driver's course, you didn't do those week intensive course, you did your weeks intensive course of being a park manager and that was it into the job. So what does your role cover then? Because I know you operate across two parks at the moment, so you've got Blackgang Chine, you've got Robin Hill. What does that look like for you in terms of your role? Dominic Wray: So my role sees me overseeing the parks and the strategic position. So I look after the business of the group as a whole. I was previously the park manager of Blackgang and then over the last twelve months transitioned to a new role, Parks Director, which sees me overseeing the group from more of a strategic position. So everything from opening calendars, pricing strategy, events that we're running, health and safety, you name it, all falls under my room within the business.Kelly Molson: I love that. I guess all of those things must have been the steep learning curve from banking where you clearly are very senior role, but probably not juggling quite so much in a day.Dominic Wray: Yeah, I liken it to running lots of micro businesses. We've got a retail business, food and beverage business and events business, health and safety compliance element of the business. So yeah, lots of micro businesses within the big business as a whole really. But yeah, the regulation from banking around strict processes and procedures does translate quite nicely into business and also into health for safety as well. Kelly Molson: Yeah. And there's some of the things we're going to talk about today. So we've got three topics to cover which I'm really interested in. We've got processes and systems, we've got peer learning that we're going to talk about and then we're going to talk about people and team development. So what you just said there about what you've brought, that's one of the things that I'm really interested in terms of the processes and systems because you've been through quite a transformative process in your organisation with kind of people and process actually. What have you been able to bring from banking into the attractions world that's kind of helped you with those processes and systems? Dominic Wray: I would say I learned a lot from working in a bank. One of the things was how not to do things, I'd say. In terms of life in a bank is very black and white. It's almost sort of a computer says no culture. And that really taught me that actually in real business you've got to operate a bit more in the gray. And it's much more around how can we actually make things happen and how can we do things rather than actually that's not possible. So I always say to feeling, great, well, how are we going to work around that? How are we going to make that possible? So, since I've joined the business, we've gone through quite a large transformation. Dominic Wray: It was fair to say that when I joined, the business was very much running in a sort of historic, family orientated way of we've always done it that way. That was a phrase I heard quite a lot when I first started this. I know we've done it like that because we've always done it that way. There's sort of a lot of, "Okay, explain to me why we've done it that way and what's the approach to that?". And then over the years, we've moved into using far more digital systems. So I'm big on making sure the team can see at the various levels of the organisation, the bigger picture. And I think that then helps them understand exactly what's going on in the business as a whole. And I think that through digital optimisation of systems and processes, that really helps them do that. Dominic Wray: So, for example, on the ride side of the fence, we bought in Mobaro, which is quite a well known safety system for our daily inspections. And that just gives far better visibility right the way from the ride operator, the person checking the rides, to the duty manager, all the way up to our owner if he wants to go in on a day and see what's gone on at 10:00 before the site opens. So it's really been around pivoting the organisation into becoming early adopters of technology and systems and processes. Dominic Wray: We've also recently joined the LEAP scheme, which was quite a big jump for our industry to move away from a historical scheme that had been in place for a number of years. And were some of the first, well, one of the first parks to join that scheme.Kelly Molson: For our listeners, what is the LEAP scheme? What does that mean? Dominic Wray: So we have our rides basically inspected by an independent inspection body. And LEAP is the scheme that then oversees and checks off the regulation of that inspection body in a sort of basic format. But it had historically been done by a different organisation and LEAP have come into the marketplace. And taken a different approach to how that is done, which gives far more transparency to the operators and also the customers that are coming into sites to visit as well. But it was quite a big thing for us to say, "Okay, we're going to move away from that historic way of doing it into a newer way of doing things.". But I think as a company, because we can make decisions quite quickly, we don't have a big gain of sign off to go through as a team. Dominic Wray: We can move quite quickly on things such as that as well. Kelly Molson: I really like that kind of transparent approach that you talked about because it feels like that would help with kind of unifying the kind of organisational culture as well because people have a bit more visibility about what's going on behind the scenes, so to speak. Dominic Wray: Yeah. And I think giving people the most amount of information you can give them within their job role and position within the organisation, that level of transparency just allows them to do their job better. Because if they understand what the key metrics that they're working towards and how they're performing and actually how decisions they make on a day to day basis impact the bigger picture of how the attraction performs over a 12, 24 month ongoing period, that makes them feel much more empowered. Because then they can see, actually, I've made this change over here, and that made an impact onto the bottom line over here. Kelly Molson: Yeah, absolutely. It gives people that sense of ownership about what they're doing as well, doesn't it? Dominic Wray: Definitely. Kelly Molson: So what do you think have been the biggest transformations that you've been able to make over that period? Dominic Wray: I would say collaborative working. The organisation used to very much be I look after food and beverage, I look after retail, I look after operations and we don't talk to each other. That's my lane. Kelly Molson: So those little micro companies just kind of like they worked in their little silos and didn't really talk. Dominic Wray: Yeah, exactly. Whereas what we've done across a number of years is change the structure of the way the parks run on a day to day basis. So each of the heads of those departments do take turns of doing duty management shifts. So that gives them the opportunity to experience the park as a complete 360, interact with different departments, understand how other departments work and function. Most importantly, that gets them in front of customers in different areas of the business as well, then that helps them understand, okay, in retail or operations, we're allowing people into the park in this way. If we do this is a domino effect that then actually knocks onto something that could happen in food and beverage later on. Dominic Wray: So I think again, that goes back to giving them that bigger picture of what's going on in the company and for them to think that actually we are all one team and what someone does in one department does have a knock on effect and impact onto other departments as well. And I think that's really taken place by opening the business up a lot more. Historically, were quite closed off as an organisation, and I've been very big on getting the staff out, seeing other attractions, going, speaking to other people in other attractions, finding out how things work in other parks, other businesses. Dominic Wray: And I think that's really then enabled us to open up a lot more and we've done that also through being members of BALPPA as well, which has been quite a key point of being able us to open up the business a lot more and experience the team, to experience things outside the company as well.Kelly Molson: Yeah. So peer learning is one of the things that I'd love to explore a bit more, because I think just going back to what you said about those organisational visits, you've got a few team members that are really active on LinkedIn, so I see a lot of the things that you do as an organisation, and it's really impressive. So you do strategic team visits to other attractions to look at how they're operating, how their attractions are running, what events. You even go to some of their events and see how they've been put on. And that comes back to this whole thing about the sector being really supportive and collaborative with each other, because that never used to happen in my world. In agency world, we are far more open now than we ever were. Kelly Molson: But I couldn't imagine ten years ago me rocking up to someone else's agency and going, "Could I just sit in on your team while you work through this project and see how your project management process works?". Piss off. I would be able to do that to a number of agencies that I know there. They'd be really happy to share, but it feels like it's kind of always been that way in the sector for attractions. Is that the case? Dominic Wray: Yeah, 100%. I mean, that was one of the biggest things that shocked me coming into a new career, was actually you can go and ask people for help and ask them how they do things and they're more than willing to share the challenges and issues that they have, but also sharing the solutions to those problems as well. I mean, when I worked at Lloyds, I can't imagine ever walking over the road to Natwest and going, "Hi, can you explain to me how you do this?". They'd say, “Bugger of.”Kelly Molson: You all will have exactly the same problem. So working together to solve that problem surely helps the greater good, rather than. Dominic Wray: Everyone has the same problems. They just have it on varying scales of economy, so we might have it on this scale. You go to a bigger park, they've got the same problem, just magnified by ten. Kelly Molson: Yeah, absolutely. But you mentioned BALPPA, which I know is an incredible organisation that you're members of. How has being kind of a member of that organisation what's it brought to the attraction and to yourself? Dominic Wray: I think it's really been transformational for the attraction, myself and the team. I think having an organisation that these business and individuals completely immerse themselves in from a learning standpoint is so valuable to me. I think it's almost like a black book. It is a black book of other attractions that you can gain access to for their knowledge, experience, processes and procedures. And as someone that came into the industry having not worked in it previous to that, I found the organisation so valuable in terms of my own personal learning and the learning of the site as well. So as an attraction, we've massively benefited from being members of BALPPA. We hosted the summer conference this year, which was a big deal for us. Dominic Wray: So everyone BALPPA came to the island and they spent a day at Blackgang Chine and Robin Hill, and we hosted a gala evening dinner at Robin Hill, which was fantastic. And that was great to show it off to peers and people within the industry and for them to kind of understand about what we do. Because obviously I go along to a lot of events with a lot of the other team and we're all sort of banging the drum about the company. But it's great for people to come and experience that firsthand as well. So I think it's helped broaden the profile of the business and also the individuals within the team as well. I think that's been brilliant for the team's personal development, but also really for their learning. Dominic Wray: The fact that there's people in the organisation that you can go and talk to about everything from ticketing strategies through to mechanical issues you've got on rides, or the fact that people are so open that you can ring them up and say, "Hey, I've got this issue with this, how do I fix it?"  I'll bring this chap, he's the person you need to go and call about this. Or, I'm a bit stuck for this spare part. Yeah, phone this person, they'll be able to get it to you quicker." And everyone's so supportive and willing to help each other. It's quite amazing to see, as I said, coming from a space where that is the complete opposite of that. It's brilliant to be involved in an organisation where if all the attractions are winning, the space is winning and the industry is winning. Dominic Wray: And I think everyone's mature enough to realise that we've all got our own individual niches and we're not all competing against each other. So actually, by helping each other and people having amazing experiences across all attractions, it just benefits the industry as a whole. Kelly Molson: Yeah, completely. It just comes back to that whole working in partnerships and not in silos again, doesn't it? You mentioned about people, this is the other thing that I really want to talk about, because you've got brilliant people that work at your organisation and you call them superstar people, which I really love. I guess BALPPA is one of the things that you've put in place to kind of help them because like you said, other team members, not just yourself, can go along to these meetings and they can benefit from the peer to peer learning that you get at those events. And actually just the networking, not even just I've been to a BALPPA event. And what struck me about it was the knowledge that was shared at that meeting. Kelly Molson: And what struck me about it was the knowledge that was shared at that meeting, it was so authentic and so transparent, actually, that you got a lot from just the talks, but actually you get even more from just networking from people that are in the same position as you, at a different attraction again, have those same kind of challenges and same kind of things that they need to talk about. And being able to just have them on speed dial is so beneficial. What else have you kind of put in place to help develop some of your superstar people there, though? Dominic Wray: So, as you mentioned, I think the team going along to BALPPA events has been a big thing for them. I think when you're doing your day to day job, you're running at 100 miles an hour, it's quite hard to sort of benchmark yourself against other people in the industry. And I've noticed that when team members have gone along to BALPPA events, they sort of come back with a sense of,” I could hold a conversation with someone from a bigger park. I'm competent at knowing what I'm doing”, which I know that they know that, but I think that helps reinforce confidence within them as well. And I just think they're fantastic spaces for developing the team's personal confidence and, as you said, their wider personal network as well, and knowledge and understanding. Dominic Wray: I mean, we've seen some of our team members, Laura, who's one of our superstars in our marketing team, she did a keynote speech on Christmas, at the BALPPA marketing conference. And it was so good. I was so proud to see her go there, deliver that, she'd been in the office working hard on it, and then just to stand up and absolutely smash it and see people's reactions to her explaining about that piece was just brilliant. And James, who oversees our site and services, he's due to do a talk on the install of our new rides at the latest BALPPA for Health and Safety Conference that's coming up as well. So I think it's brilliant for the team to be able to be on that platform and develop themselves as well. Dominic Wray: Other things that we do in an organisation as well. I think I'm really big on giving the team space to be able to do their job safely. I think it's good to allow them to give them the space to they're the experts in that area. I very much see my role is overseeing that and making sure all the pieces are coming together. But quite often I will say to them, "Guys, what do you think about this particular thing? Or how should we approach that?". Because ultimately, they're the experts within the business, within their chosen fields, and I'm big on giving them the opportunity to be the experts in those areas. I also think it's great to take some time out to learn more about them as individuals and their roles and their interests within those roles as well. Dominic Wray: So, for example, when Laura joined the business, went on a two day marketing course together. It was a conference that she wanted to attend, but I said, "I'll go with you. I'm keen to learn more about the in depth elements of marketing and I think it'd be a good shared experience for us.". And I think that then just enables the team to feel, actually I'm interested in their department and how they work and operate. And I think there's always something that you can learn from everyone that you meet and interact with. So I'm big on doing that. And then the final thing I'll say is really let them be a star in their area and promote that. Dominic Wray: I mean, the example of Laura with the marketing conference talk was brilliant. It was great to see her on stage representing the business, but also the spotlight was on her and it was about her in that moment, which was fantastic. And I think that's really good when the team feel like they can be superstars in their own arenas of their chosen fields. Kelly Molson: I love that. I remember that talk really vividly. It was really heartwarming, actually. And there was a really personal element to it as well. And you could see how much she was connected to the subject matter that she was speaking to as well. This is something that we talked about prior to coming on today, about how you've kind of supported your team as well as they kind of move through their careers and they move through what they're doing at the attractions. And one of the things that you've really helped them start to develop is their personal brands. Such a hot topic. It's one I love talking about. Kelly Molson: It's something that I've really tried to do as best as I can over the last kind of I think just prior to the pandemic, actually, I kind of started to think about what is it that I want people to remember me about, what's important to me? And if I've got a platform, how am I going to use it to talk about the things that I think are important and that other people should hopefully find as important as me. Kelly Molson: And I think what you've done there is kind of facilitate that for your team, which is really lovely to see because everybody, like you said, is working for the whole of the organisation, but they all have their own kind of individual specialisms. How have you kind of helped people or encouraged people to develop their personal brands? What are the kind of things that you've done there? Dominic Wray: I've encouraged them to get out there, engage with other people, engage within different networks. I think LinkedIn is a great tool for that as well. I think the team all do lots of amazing things every day that we all see and know that they do. But I'm big on encouraging them about, shouting about that. I think as general British people, we're quite sort of we don't like self promotion too much, don't like talking about ourselves too much. And I think having Laura, to be fair, join the team earlier in the year, who's big on her LinkedIn content and big on talking about what's going on out there, has really helped the team and pushed everyone forwards with doing that. And I've really encouraged them. Dominic Wray: You might not think anyone's going to take value from the content you're putting out or discussing that, but actually they will because there's probably someone somewhere looking at that thinking, "How do I overcome that problem?” Or “I've got a similar ride to that we're just in the process of refurbishing, maybe I can reach out to them and find out how they're doing that." So really believing in themselves and that they really are superstars in their area and they should be promoting that and talking about how great they are in the businesses that they work for. Kelly Molson: Have you seen that encouragement kind of help with some of the team's own self confidence as well? They're kind of braver about putting themselves forward for certain things. Dominic Wray: Yeah, yeah, massively. James, who oversees both of our sites from the site and services viewpoint, started off within the maintenance team one of those sites and he's worked his way up through the business. Now he's responsible for health and safety across both of them. He oversaw the install of our new ride which went in at the beginning of the year as well and it's been fantastic to see him grow and his confidence grow and develop within that. And now he's been asked to go forward, as I said, to do a talk next month about that ride install going ahead, which will be his first sort of public speaking gig, and I'll be very much there to support him along with that as well. So it's been great to watch the team develop and grow along with that and their confidence as well. Kelly Molson: That's really lovely to see. Well, I think in the past, people probably haven't wanted to highlight certain people, do you know what I mean? If we put these people out in the world, other people might steal them from us. But I think you have to develop your people and you have to let them shine in the roles that they're in because they'll just get better and better and better. So it's really lovely to see that you're encouraging that. I think it's such an important part of running a successful organisation now.Dominic Wray: Yeah. And I think the team are happier from that. I think if you give them the freedom to go out and experience other attractions and speak to other people at various different levels of organisations, they feel happier where they are. I think if you kind of constrain them and say, "Oh no, we can't allow you to go and speak to these people. We can't allow you to go and visit them because they might poach you or they might offer you a different job." Then they're going to be thinking, "Actually, maybe the grass is greener on the other side.". Kelly Molson: This is not the company for me after all. Dominic Wray: Yeah, exactly. And I think there's nothing wrong with them being having their own personal brand within the wider brand of the business. I think that's good for them. Kelly Molson: Yeah, I think so too. It's really brilliant to see what you've been developing there. Right. I would love it if you could share some top tips for our listeners. We always get our guests to share top tips. Three top tips on processes and people development that you'd encourage other attractions to adopt. Dominic Wray: My first one would definitely be, and I've already mentioned it, but get your team out visiting other attractions. Can't express enough how much they'll learn from those experiences. I think if you set it out in the right position to say, "Okay, guys, we're going to go and visit this event, this is what we're going to be looking for. This is what I want us to take back from that. When we come back, we're going to have a clear debrief to go through key learnings of that and how we're going to implement that into our business. You can still obviously have a great enjoyable experience."Dominic Wray: That's one of the best things about working in this industry is going on an R & D trip, but getting to go on a couple of roller coasters and get scared, go to the scare mazes or whatever else you're going to be doing. I think it's great team building as well. It's great for the team to go and see that. And what I find amazing is it can be anything from the way a site manages its waste or the layout of a queue line or actually I liked on the way in how this person upselled this ticket for me. There's so many things you can gain from that. Dominic Wray: I think when you're going into an attraction, looking at that from that perspective, I just think it's brilliant and there's no kind of training course that you can send anyone on that will deliver that value that they get from going and experiencing it firsthand. Kelly Molson: I'm just laughing at the excitement about waste as well like, "Yeah, we could see how they process their waste." That is exciting. Dominic Wray: That would be something that James would probably come back to say to me. But that's what I mean. Everyone of the team's interested in different things, so it's good. Kelly Molson: On this topic of the visits, do you always go to places that are quite similar to yours as well? Or do you do visits that are in complete contrast to what you do as well? To see the difference. Dominic Wray: We'll do a bit of both. Probably a good example is when we set up our Halloween event over October, when we very first did that, went to visit Tully's Farm, which was sort of, in our eyes, as the gold standard of scare attractions. The first time went there, we just went to see what is it as an attraction? How does that concept work? The overview sort of headline of that. And then over the years, as we've developed Terror Island, which is our Halloween event, which we run here, over October, we've been back to Tully's on numerous occasions. We've had Stuart, who runs that, come down to the site as well, and we're then looking at that from a different perspective. Dominic Wray: So then we moved on to, "Okay, how do we look at improving through, how do we look at improving guest experience? How do we look at upselling F&B? Where are the entrance and exit points of the mazes in relation to the broader site? How's the actual site laid out?". So we're then going back and looking at it in a sort of more detailed layer of that. But no, as a team, we'll go to much larger parks, much smaller parks, because I think there's things you can learn from all different sizes of attractions. We went to Hobbledown last year, which was an interesting experience, and we saw their water pillow there, and we actually put one of those into Robin Hill this year, which was one of our most successful attractions. Dominic Wray: So the guys there were fantastic at explaining about the pros and cons of that attraction, which then enabled us to make an informed decision as to whether to purchase one of those or not. But, yeah, I think there's things to be learned from all different types of attractions. If people are going to them with the right mindset of thinking, “What am I going to learn?”Kelly Molson: What's the objective here? What's the takeaway? Okay, great. So that's top tip one. Dominic Wray: Top tip two would be celebrate personal wins for the team and then let them be stars in that moment. I think when someone in the team does something really well and they've achieved something, it's really important to broadcast that to everyone, let everyone know about that and let them shine in that moment. And for it to be about them as an individual, not so much about the company as a whole. It's them in that moment, and you want to make them feel valued and positive about whatever the experiences that they've achieved. Kelly Molson: Nice. Good tip. Dominic Wray: And then my third one would be let people make mistakes in a safe manner and learn from it. I think in a working environment, people are quite often aware when they've made a mistake or something's gone wrong. They don't leave someone jumping up and down. Yeah, exactly. You know, when you're like, "That didn't work. I know it's not worked well," but I think allowing them to make mistakes in a safe, controlled manner that they can then learn from, because I think quality people understand when something's gone wrong, and they equally understand how to fix it and put their hands up and say, yeah, that's happened. But we're quite quick to acknowledge that and move on to how we're going to resolve it and not allow that to occur again. Kelly Molson: Excellent tips. Okay, as an organisation, what's your biggest opportunity and also your biggest challenge as we head into the winter months? Because I think you're coming to do you close over the season? Do you close down? Dominic Wray: Yes. So Saturday is our last operating day, and we close from November and we open in March. Kelly Molson: Wow. Gosh, you really are coming up to the end of the season. Okay, so what's your biggest opportunity and your biggest challenge as we head into that time? Dominic Wray: It was quite a big challenge, and opportunity for the company is that we made a difficult decision to put one of our sites on the market and we're looking to sell Robin Hill. So that will be the biggest challenge and opportunity for the business in recent years, to be fair. I think it presents a great opportunity for the business to double down and invest further into Blackgang, which is 180 years old this year. So it's a big birthday year for us. Kelly Molson: Incredible. Dominic Wray: And I think that will enable us to be here for another 180 years. Not that I might still be around at that point in time. Kelly Molson: You certainly won't look like Mark Wright at that point. Dominic Wray: No, look like a very aged Mark Wright. But I think it's the biggest challenge for the team and myself personally as we reshape the business and pivot into a new direction, but I equally think it's an exciting one to see what will come out on the other side of that as well. Kelly Molson: It is exciting, isn't it? I can imagine that having two parks to oversee can be a stretch at sometimes in terms of resource and also in terms of strategy and how things work, because I guess that they work similar but different. So, yeah, I can see that as a huge opportunity and something to I guess it's kind of a nice thing to focus on for the start of the new season as well, that's kind of progressing. And then you've got this really big opportunity to focus on this one thing and make it as the very best it could possibly be. Dominic Wray: Yeah. And the team have really taken to it. They're really passionate about driving Blackgang forwards and are very excited about the changes and the plans we've got for the next year and coming years as well. So it's been well embraced by them. Kelly Molson: Good. And I guess you're ending the season on a high as well, because we talked a little bit about your Halloween event, but it has been a really successful Halloween event this year, hasn't it? Dominic Wray: Yes, it's gone down really well. We made the sun top ten events for Halloween attractions. So yeah, it's been really well received. It's a personal favourite of mine. Absolutely love it. It's been a complete passion project for the team, and the team are always up for every event we do, but this is one that they really get behind and are in every possible conceivable bit of detail. And as someone that never used to like horror films and hated being scared, I now absolutely love going through scare attractions and love scaring other people even more than that. Complete 360 for me as well. So you don't know what you like until you try it. Kelly Molson: Exactly. You just never know where you never knew where this role was going to take you, did you? When you started this, Dominic, you never knew you were going to end up as a horror fan. Dominic Wray: Yeah, exactly. Now I'm like, "Oh no, we need to make that person over there look more dead. Or how loud we need the chainsaw louder, or that guy doesn't look scary enough." Way more interesting than ices and loans. Kelly Molson: I love it. A massive learning curve and 180 years old. I mean, that is a phenomenal achievement. There can't be many other attractions that are coming up for that age. So this is really incredible. I think you've had a really brilliant year. Can't do this podcast without talking about Radio One as well because I've been aware of Blackgang Chine for quite a while, but I think it maybe isn't on the radar of many people because it's Isle of Wight, it's not on the mainland. But I was driving back from the gym one morning and I listened to Radio One. Kelly Molson: I listened to the Greg James breakfast show on Radio One in the mornings and they were doing this thing where they had to find one of the presenters and all the presenters were hidden up and down all over the country, and they were talking about the Isle of Wight and they kept saying, Blackgang Chine. And I was like, they're talking about Blackgang Chine. Let Laura know. I need to pull over and let Laura know. Obviously she already knew that you were being talked about, but I think how many times did he say Blackgang Chine? It was a lot. Dominic Wray: It was a lot. I think it was over 50 times. I mean, my phone was going mental, mate. If you've got the presenters because it's because we have an area called Area Five with large animatronic dinosaurs, and they thought we'd hidden them down there and they were like, "God, you're really good at keeping a secret. I can't believe you haven't told us this.". And I'm like, "No, honestly, they're not here.". I don't want to actually believe me. Well, clearly no one did. Kept ringing up Radio One to talk about it, but that was a great bit of brand profile for the business and I guess sort of showed that people were associating the element of dinosaurs to the park as well. So that's obviously positive for us. Kelly Molson: It was really good press, even if we didn't have the presenter there. It was absolutely brilliant. Dominic Wray: Yeah, it was fantastic. And then everyone was almost like, they should have been here. Kelly Molson: They should have been here. We should, we need to get Greg James back over, don't you? I mean, he said it enough, so you should get him there for a visit soon. Dominic Wray: Greg, if you're listening, come down. Kelly Molson: I mean, I'd love it if Greg listened to this podcast, but it's highly unlikely. But if you are, Greg, would you like to come on? I'd love a chat with you. I'm just around the corner of Bishop Stortford. That's where you were born, right? We could be friends. Dom, thank you for coming on the podcast. It's been brilliant to chat today. We always end the interview by asking our guests to share a book that they'd like to share with their listeners. So something that you love can be work related or it can be personal, whatever you fancy. Dominic Wray: Well, I was going to think about saying the Highway Code so people can understand how to overtake cyclists, really, but I won't. My favourite podcast at the moment is a podcast called the Big Fish that's presented by Spencer Matthews. Kelly Molson: What? Hang on. Dominic Wray: Oh, sorry, my second favourite. My second well, obviously ones that I listen to after yours. Kelly Molson: Thank you. Well recovered. Dominic Wray: Once I've listened to the latest episode, I move on to Big Fish after that. Kelly Molson: Sorry, say it again. Big Fish. Who's it by? Dominic Wray: Big Fish by Spencer Matthews, who used to be on Made in Chelsea, I think, and now owns a company called CleanCo, which is a non alcoholic brand, which is quite interesting. But I like it because he interviews lots of CEOs and business owners. It's got a bit of a sports mindset focus to it, but it's also very much around the culture in those businesses, how they've built the businesses and the challenges they face within them as well. So it's quite an interesting one. Kelly Molson: I like the sounds of that. I listen to quite a lot of podcasts like that. All right, I'm going to put Big Fish on my list. Well, there you go, listeners. You can't win a copy of this podcast because I can't give it away, but I encourage you to go and have a little listen. Maybe it'll be your number two podcast as well, who knows? Dom, thanks for coming on today. It's been lovely to have you. Congratulations on 180 years and best of luck with everything that comes next. I think you've got a really exciting new chapter that's about to start and maybe you'll come back on in a year or so and tell us how it's all gone. Dominic Wray: Yeah, sounds good. Thank you very much for having me enjoyed it. Kelly Molson:  Thanks for listening to Skip The Queue. If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave us a five star review. It really helps others find us. And remember to follow us on Twitter for your chance to win the books that have been mentioned. Skip the queue is brought to you by Rubber Cheese, a digital agency that builds remarkable systems and websites for attractions that helps them increase their visitor numbers. You can find show notes and transcriptions from this episode and more over on our website, rubbercheese.com/podcast.

In this special episode recorded as a live webinar, Australian hosts Jason and Joelle officially launch THE Psych Health and Safety Conference. We are joined by conference speakers (and repeat podcast guests) Dave Burroughs and Angela Martin to explore the Agenda. https://psychhealthandsafetyconference.com/

On this episode of our award-winning podcast, we finish our feature on an organization that has made huge strides in reducing Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs) throughout health system. We will discuss the phenomenal results of the initiative so far and what is planned for the near future at Sanford Health.   Moderator: Tomas Villanueva, DO, MBA, FACPE, SFHM Senior Principal Clinical Operations and Quality Vizient Guests: Rachel Leyk, RN, CMSRN, CPHQ Improvement Advisor Quality and Safety – Fargo Sanford Health Devendranath (Dev) Mannuru, MD, CHCOM Internal Medicine Hospitalist CDI and Quality Physician Advisor Sanford Hospital – Fargo Khaled Zreik, MD Director, Critical Care Acute Care Surgeon Sanford Health   Show Notes: [00:39] Use of data in managing PSI reduction [03:14] Results of a successful program [04:05] Lessons learned [08:15] Expanding and standardizing throughout the enterprise   Links | Resources: To contact Modern Practice: modernpracticepodcast@vizientinc.com Rachel Leyk's email: rachel.leyk@sanfordhealth.org Dr. Mannuru's email: devendranath.mannuru@sanfordhealth.org Dr. Zreik's email: khaled.zreik@sanfordhealth.org PSI ACS Poster: PSI ACS Poster Final.pdf 2023 Quality and Safety Conference presentation: 2023-qsc-ppt-final presentation.pptx   Subscribe Today! Apple Podcasts Amazon Podcasts Android Google Podcasts Spotify RSS Feed  

On this episode of The Construction Record Podcast™, digital media editor Warren Frey speaks with Dr. Jon Callegher about attracting young people to the construction industry and then retaining them once they enter the field. Callegher, the executive director of the Job Talks research and media agency, spoke at the recent British Columbia Construction Safety Alliance Health and Safety Conference about what younger workers are looking for in a career path and how many of the traits regarded as “university-ready” are also well suited to the skilled trades. He added men and women have to be marketed to in different ways and that companies need to precisely target young workers instead of sending out large-scale advertising campaigns that may not reach them. We also have the latest headlines from the Daily Commercial News and the Journal of Commerce including a story from Angela Gismondi about an extension to an existing building at the University of Toronto's Innis College as well as columns from John Clinkard about the possibly costly implications for new homes within Ottawa's emissions reduction plan, and John Bleasby's Inside Innovation column which looks at how artificial intelligence adoption in  the construction industry is in his words, “all about the data.” From the west we have stories from Shannon Moneo about how two years after a devastating fire that wiped out the town of Lytton in British Columbia, the rebuilding effort is stuck in limbo with no construction as yet started and in Edmonton the long-delayed $1.8-billion, 13-kilometre low-floor line Valley Line Southeast LRT will open for passenger service on November 4th. You can listen to The Construction Record on the Daily Commercial News and Journal of Commerce websites as well as on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Amazon Music's podcast section. Our previous interviews with our new Journal of Commerce staff writer Sarah Rowland and WorkSafeBC's Trudi Rondou are here. Thanks for listening. DCN-JOC News Services Innis College addition ‘surgical,' connecting old and new buildings Inside Innovation: AI adoption in construction is all about the data Ottawa's Emission Reduction Plan Has Costly Implications for New Homes Lytton rebuild in limbo over two years after devastating fire Edmonton announces Valley Line Southeast LRT to open Nov. 4  

On this episode of Modern Practice, we continue highlighting an organization that has made huge strides in reducing Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs) throughout health system.   Moderator: Tomas Villanueva, DO, MBA, FACPE, SFHM Senior Principal Clinical Operations and Quality Vizient Guests: Rachel Leyk, RN, CMSRN, CPHQ Improvement Advisor Quality and Safety – Fargo Sanford Health Devendranath (Dev) Mannuru, MD, CHCOM Internal Medicine Hospitalist CDI and Quality Physician Advisor Sanford Hospital – Fargo Khaled Zreik, MD Director, Critical Care Acute Care Surgeon Sanford Health   Show Notes: [01:06] Managing PSI notifications to staff – keeping it non-punitive [03:46 Escalation process versus peer review – addressing practice variation [05:12] Keys to achieving collaboration   Links | Resources: To contact Modern Practice: modernpracticepodcast@vizientinc.com Rachel Leyk's email: rachel.leyk@sanfordhealth.org Dr. Mannuru's email: devendranath.mannuru@sanfordhealth.org Dr. Zreik's email: khaled.zreik@sanfordhealth.org PSI ACS Poster: PSI ACS Poster Final.pdf 2023 Quality and Safety Conference presentation: 2023-qsc-ppt-final presentation.pptx   Subscribe Today! Apple Podcasts Amazon Podcasts Android Google Podcasts Spotify RSS Feed  

On this episode of The Construction Record Podcast™, we have interviews from the British Columbia Construction Safety Alliance's 2023 Health and Safety Conference, including BCCSA president Mike McKenna and safety expert Michael Fears. McKenna gave an overview of both conference content and the importance of being able to network with one's peers and spoke to the importance of mental health work being done throughout the industry. He also pointed to Jan 1., 2024 as a significant date for construction as both asbestos certification and concrete pump operation certification regulations come into effect. He also said while the industry is booming, a growing labour shortages will continue to be a challenge along with insuring the work environment is conducive to worker retention.   Fears explained that the current system of safety rewards can actually be counter-productive as workers can hide injuries or errors and that the “external awards” approach leads to separating safety from the core of an organizational mission. He also encouraged companies to create safety rewards tailored to individuals and to not bring attention to safety initiatives but remain consistent in positively reinforcing positive employee safety behaviour. We also have a summary of the latest headlines on the Daily Commercial News and Journal of Commerce including staff writer Angela Gismondi's story about how offsite construction is a needed tool in addressing the housing crisis, WSIB's extension of its Health and Safety Excellence   program to the end of 2024, and the announcement by the B.C. government that three teams have been chosen to move forward to the Request For Proposals stage for the Massey Tunnel replacement project which will create an immersed eight-lane tube tunnel to replace the current aging infrastructure. You can listen to The Construction Record on the Daily Commercial News and Journal of Commerce websites as well as on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Amazon Music's podcast section. Our previous interview with VRCA president Jeannine Martin about the 2023 Awards of Excellence is here. Thanks for listening. DCN-JOC News Services Offsite construction a needed tool in the housing crisis toolbox: Bendersky Nova Scotia general contractor fined for using professional engineer's seal WSIB double rebates for smaller businesses extended Massey Tunnel replacement procurement process moves forward First of two tunnel-boring machines breaks ground at future Oak-VGH Station Winners revealed: Who took home a VRCA 2023 Gold Award of Excellence Michael Fears Energy Safety Canada

This episode of our award-winning podcast continues the success story of how Sanford Health has reduced PSIs through a concerted, multifaceted effort throughout the organization. Tomas interviews members of the clinical team that guided the way.   Moderator: Tomas Villanueva, DO, MBA, FACPE, SFHM Senior Principal Clinical Operations and Quality Vizient Guests: Rachel Leyk, RN, CMSRN, CPHQ Improvement Advisor Quality and Safety – Fargo Sanford Health Devendranath (Dev) Mannuru, MD, CHCOM Internal Medicine Hospitalist CDI and Quality Physician Advisor Sanford Hospital – Fargo Khaled Zreik, MD Director, Critical Care Acute Care Surgeon Sanford Health   Show Notes: [00:34] Surgeon's perspective [02:04 Role of nurse reviewer [03:18] Necessities for success [04:05] Importance of executive leadership; need to be non-punitive (the “gold nugget”) [06:37] Reliable software and establishing the stop bill process [08:15] Involving HIM, coding and the CDI team [10:36] Engaging the clinical staff   Links | Resources: To contact Modern Practice: modernpracticepodcast@vizientinc.com Rachel Leyk's email: rachel.leyk@sanfordhealth.org Dr. Mannuru's email: devendranath.mannuru@sanfordhealth.org Dr. Zreik's email: khaled.zreik@sanfordhealth.org PSI ACS Poster: PSI ACS Poster Final.pdf 2023 Quality and Safety Conference presentation: 2023-qsc-ppt-final presentation.pptx   Subscribe Today! Apple Podcasts Amazon Podcasts Android Google Podcasts Spotify RSS Feed

iP Utility Safety Conference & Expo - San Diego, CA Nov 7-9, 2023   Are you registered for this premier utility safety conference? https://utilitysafetyconference.com/   NOVEMBER 7 – 9, 2023 TOWN AND COUNTRY RESORT – SAN DIEGO, CA JOIN US FOR 3 DAYS OF EDUCATION, NETWORKING & PRODUCT DISCOVERY The iP Utility Safety Conference & Expo brings together leading safety and operations minds from across the country for three days of education and networking. If you're a utility safety or operations professional, this is a can't-miss event. Come together to gain education, insight & knowledge that will help you and your organization achieve new levels of safety success.   Register today to get your all-access pass to three jam-packed days of education, networking, product discovery and more! Your all-access pass includes: Unlimited access to 3 days of keynote presentations, roundtables and educational sessions Bussed transportation to and from an exciting tour of San Diego Gas & Electric's state-of-the-art training facility Complimentary transportation to and admission into a fun welcome reception including dinner and plenty of networking opportunities Complimentary breakfast at the kickoff keynote session Complimentary lunches all three days of the event Unlimited access to the Expo Hall Complimentary coffee, tea and pastries to start the second and third day of the event ________________________________ This podcast is sponsored by T&D Powerskills. If you are looking for a comprehensive lineworker training solution, visit tdpowerskills.com today and use the exclusive podcast listener promo code podcast2023 to receive a 5% discount!

Developed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Patient Safety Indicators, or PSIs, represent measurements of adverse events that enable healthcare organizations to gauge how they compare to others regarding patient safety. In addition, CMS looks at PSIs in scoring and penalizing organizations. In this series, Tomas talks with members of a clinical team that has seen great results in reducing PSIs throughout the organization.   Moderator: Tomas Villanueva, DO, MBA, FACPE, SFHM Senior Principal Clinical Operations and Quality Vizient   Guests: Rachel Leyk, RN, CMSRN, CPHQ Improvement Advisor Quality and Safety – Fargo Sanford Health   Devendranath (Dev) Mannuru, MD, CHCOM Internal Medicine Hospitalist CDI and Quality Physician Advisor Sanford Hospital – Fargo   Khaled Zreik, MD Director, Critical Care Acute Care Surgeon Sanford Health   Show Notes: [02:00] Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs) defined [02:46] PSI-90 and individual PSIs [03:43] Hospital Acquired Conditions Reduction Program (HACRP) [05:06] Documentation and the “dotted line” to quality [05:44] Benchmarking with the Vizient Clinical Data Base [06:23] Focused objectives for the PSI reduction program [07:34] Steps in building the program structure [09:35] Addressing gaps in education – once clinicians know what to do, they don't fail   Resources: To contact Modern Practice: modernpracticepodcast@vizientinc.com Rachel Leyk's email: rachel.leyk@sanfordhealth.org Dr. Mannuru's email: devendranath.mannuru@sanfordhealth.org Dr. Zreik's email: khaled.zreik@sanfordhealth.org   PSI ACS Poster: PSI ACS Poster Final.pdf 2023 Quality and Safety Conference presentation: 2023-qsc-ppt-final presentation.pptx   Subscribe Today! Apple Podcasts Amazon Podcasts Android Google Podcasts Spotify RSS Feed  

It might seem that public speaking has nothing to do with safety but it does. In fact, being a public speaker can help solidify your career as a safety professional. Tune in to this episode as we talk about the reasons why speaking helps your career in safety.Show notes for this episode can be found at: https://thesafetygeek.com/112Links Mentioned:Safety Management Academy - https://thesafetygeek.com/sma Apply Here To Be a Presenter at the Rockstar Virtual Summit - https://thesafetygeek.com/summit--------Thank you for taking the time to listen to this episode. If you liked it, be sure to share it with your best safety friend. It's a goal of The Safety Geek to elevate the safety manager position and that is why I share tips and resources on how you can manage your safety program more effectively.Safety is safety, if you're a general industry nerd like me or if you work in construction, agriculture, environmental or other areas. The common factor is getting management support and employee participation. That's where I can help.To get started, take my FREE COURSE on how to manage your workplace safety program with ease where you will learn the basic steps from organizing all the moving parts of a safety program and building safety awareness.Join The Safety Geek Community and become part of The Network a Professional Development Community at https://TheSafetyGeek.com/Network  Check out Safety Management Academy!https://TheSafetyGeek.com/SMA Visit the website at https://TheSafetyGeek.com Subscribe to the YouTube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/safetygeek Sign Up for my safety newsletter where I share exclusive tips, content, forms, and templates at https://TheSafetyGeek.com/Newsletter Follow me @Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheSafetyGeek LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brye-sargent/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/safety_brye/ Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/thesafetygeek/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Safety_Brye 

It has been a long time coming but we finally got the chance to chat with Amy Roosa. Amy is the Founder of The Safety Rack and the Iowa Women in Safety Conference. Amy and Alanna chat through her journey as a professional to finding a gaping hole in the PPE market for women in trades (herself included). We hear Amy talk about her passion project in changing how organisations procure PPE and demand better service from PPE manufacturers to be more diverse in their offering and inclusive in terms of size, shape etc. It was an empowering conversations of two women leading change. Be sure to hit follow on Spotify or the + on Apple Podcasts to get the latest episodes. Click here to sign up to the Women in Safety newsletter sign-up. If you would like to share this episode on your socials, be sure to tag @womeninsafety & @thesafetyrack Connect with Amy on Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/amy-roosa-bb598078/

Law enforcement leaders are gathering to coordinate procedures for trafficking, community engagement and mental health.Then, Mississippi's outgoing Speaker of the House shares his hopes for the state's legislative future.Plus, this week's History is Lunch looks at the defenders of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi's courtrooms. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today is the final day of the KDOT Traffic Safety Conference.  KDOT's Tom Hein joins us live from the conference on a Wednesday Steve and Ted in the Morning.

Final preparations are underway for this year's 127th running of the Boston Marathon. WBZ's Madison Rogers reports,

In this special episode, the Safety+Health team previews the 2023 NSC Spring Safety Conference & Expo – set for May 17-19 in Indianapolis – and interviews keynote speaker Brandon Schroeder. Read episode notes, sign up to be notified by email when each new episode has been published, and find other ways to subscribe. https://www.safetyandhealthmagazine.com/articles/23779-safe-side-podcast-2023-spring-conference-preview

In this special episode, the Safety+Health team previews the 2023 NSC Spring Safety Conference & Expo – set for May 17-19 in Indianapolis – and interviews keynote speaker Brandon Schroeder. Read episode notes, sign up to be notified by email when each new episode has been published, and find other ways to subscribe. https://www.safetyandhealthmagazine.com/articles/23779-safe-side-podcast-2023-spring-conference-preview

 iP Utility Safety Conference & Expo Presents SafetyPalooza in Schaumburg, IL May 9-11, 2023 Register Today - https://utilitysafetyconference.com/ The iP Utility Safety Conference & Expo brings together leading safety and operations minds from across the country for three days of education and networking. If you're a utility safety or operations professional, this is a can't-miss event. Come together to gain education, insight & knowledge that will help you and your organization achieve new levels of safety success.   Download the Brochure - https://utilitysafetyconference.com/wp-content/uploads/2023-iP-Utility-Safety-Conference-Expo-Brochure-1.pdf ________________________________ This podcast is sponsored by T&D Powerskills. If you are looking for a comprehensive lineworker training solution, visit tdpowerskills.com today and use the exclusive podcast listener promo code podcast2023 to receive a 5% discount!

Monday and Tuesday I attended the AFFI Health and Safety Conference.  This was one of the first appearances by the Resiliency Committee that Joe Galli had founded and spoken about on previous episodes.The speakers, content, and experience was excellent and in this episode I do my best to explain why it was so different than any other conference I've been to.If you're an Illinois Firefighter, you're in great hands.  Be on the lookout for some big things from the AFFI this year.Thank you for listening and visit the affiliate links below support the effort.Support the showSupport the show directly here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/4thshiftfiEPlease order your favorite products through my affiliate links:Rescue1CBD https://rescue1cbd.com?ref=509Use code TAILBOARD for 15% offAthletic Brewing- Code TTFP10 for 10% off for new customersThen use: https://athletic-brewing-co.sjv.io/c/4029326/889587/12298?campaign=affiliate%20%3Dcontent%3Donline_tracking_link to continue to support the show with your purchases.For topic/guest requests use this form https://www.4thshiftfitness.com/guestformFor all other things, reach out here: https://www.4thshiftfitness.com/contactThank you for listening and let's all keep working to be more capable and durable both on shift and away from it.

Can integrated photonic sensing make wind farms more efficient? PhotonFirst says yes. Are Modvian's wood turbine towers really more eco-friendly than some existing manufacturing methods? Vestas and other investors think so. Rosemary and Allen discuss sustainable designs and new recycling technology. Rosemary wants more information on Vestas' announcement that its novel chemical process breaks epoxy back down into virgin materials, as well as some details on Norway's Wind Catching Systems. Vancover's Veer and Pattern Energy would probably agree that more data is always a good thing,as the companies are working together to optimize operational performance. Speaking of which...  O&M is on our minds as we prep for Clean Power's Operations, Maintenance and Safety Conference in Orlando next month. Will you be there? Let us know! Our wind farm of the week is the Budweiser Wind Farm at Thunder Ranch in Oklahoma, where Enel Green Power helps Anheuser Busch produce its beverages more sustainably. Every week, Uptime reviews the industry's news, technology, and cool wind farms. Plus, a bonus episode on robots this week. Visit Pardalote Consulting at https://www.pardaloteconsulting.com Wind Power Lab - https://windpowerlab.com Weather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.com Intelstor - https://www.intelstor.com PES Wind Article - https://pes.eu.com/exclusive-article/monitoring-makes-good-sense/ Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary Barnes' YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us!  Uptime 152 Allen Hall: Rosemary, the big news here in America is that there was a balloon floating across the United States that we all watched slowly drift from one ocean to the other. Rosemary Barnes: I can't figure out what on earth that was, it was for, or what the cause was. And I, I agree. I would probably shoot it down too. You know, so, so that you're sure. But that's what I'm saying. Super, super weird, right?   Allen Hall: Super weird. Yeah. It was a very strange week for that to happen. So next time there's a balloon, there's, hopefully they'll send it south. It's tough sending it to America. Cause it's freaking out America at the moment. And, and speaking of freaking out There's a lot happening in wind news this week. It, the every day is just a plethora of, of really cool stuff. This week we're gonna talk about integrated photonic sensing, basic fiber optic sensing in winter blades, and that's, Based on our article we saw in Power and Energy Solutions Magazine, and then we take a deep look at Vestas announcing a method to recycle the epoxy resin in existing wind turbine blades. So breaking down the epoxy into virgin components so we could reuse to make more wind turbine blades. Really cool  Rosemary Barnes: technology. Yeah. And then we talk about another project that investors have invested in, the mod vn wooden wind turbine powers. And I talk a little bit about whether it's really more sustainable than steel will be in the future. And then onto wind catching that it's a new kind of offshore wind turbine with like a, a grid array of small wind turbines. And I try the questionable tactic of hoping that they will hire me to help them with their development by criticizing them a lot. So let's see, let's see how that goes for me. And then we've got the Wind Farm of this week is the Budweiser Wind Farm at Thunder Ranch in Oklahoma.  Allen Hall: Also just to note, Weather Guard Lightning Tech is going to be at American Clean Power O&M in Orlando, Florida in the beginning of March. So if you're down in Orlando, stop and say hi. I'm Allen Hall,

View the video here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGgZPaNxz2M&t The iP Utility Safety Conference & Expo brings together leading safety and operations minds from across the country for three days of education and networking. If you're a utility safety or operations professional, this is a can't-miss event. Come together to gain education, insight & knowledge that will help you and your organization achieve new levels of safety success. www.UtilitySafetyConference.com   JOIN US FOR 3 DAYS OF EDUCATION, NETWORKING & PRODUCT DISCOVERY Subscribe to our free Incident Prevention Magazine - https://incident-prevention.com/subscribe-now/ ________________________________ This podcast is sponsored by T&D Powerskills. If you are looking for a comprehensive lineworker training solution, visit tdpowerskills.com today and use the exclusive podcast listener promo code podcast2022 to receive a 5% discount!

In Ep. 147, Chief Todd LeDuc (Ret) delivers a high-level overview of the upcoming Fire Department Safety Officers Association annual Health and Safety Conference.  It will be held at the Tradewinds Island Grand in St. Pete's Beach, Florida from January 15 – 18, 2023.  The conference brings together the most informative firefighter researchers, speakers, and trainers from America.  For more ... Read More

What happened at this year's #FleetFowardCon and #FleetSafetyCon? Find out on this episode of #UtilimarcFleetFYIs.Share your thoughts on LinkedIn, Instagram or Facebook with #UtilimarcFleetFYIs.www.utilimarc.com

On this episode of the Construction Record Podcast digital media editor Warren Frey has interviews from the British Columbia Construction Safety Alliance's recent Health and Safety conference in Vancouver. The first interview is with Kate Campbell, known for her roles on Holmes on Homes and many other HGTV shows as well as her work as a carpenter, business owner, and a tireless advocate for both the skilled trades and getting tools into the hands of more women on more jobsites. We also have an interview with WorkSafeBC's Steven Mah, who gave the conference attendees a deep dive into the British Columbia safety regulator's Construction High Risk Strategy, explained the high-risk categories that got the most focus and the importance of stakeholders to the ongoing process of creating the strategy. You can listen to The Construction Record on the Daily Commercial News and Journal of Commerce websites as well as on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Amazon Music's podcast, and you can listen to our previous podcast about Toronto's recent municipal election with Daily Commercial News staff writers Angela Gismondi and Don Wall here. Thanks for listening. DCN-JOC News Services

Amy Roosa talks about the The Safety Rack and about her experiences as a safety professional of over 18 years of exerience in the USA. Other topics covered include the Iowa Women in Safety Conference, pschosocial vs physical hazards and root cause analysis. An amazing conversation, I hope you will enjoy listening as much as I did recording this. Links to this conversation:Iowa Women in Safety Conference https://www.kirkwood.edu/programs/community/women-in-safety-conferenceThe Safety Rack https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCosp1ECdvhh3g3FBaJCRf-w/featured 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.

Women in the safety industry need allies and the space to find their own voices! More importantly, PPE needs to be designed specifically for women's bodies to ensure safety and efficiency. Joining us on the Hazard Girls podcast is the co-founder of the Iowa Women and Safety Conference and founder of The Safety Rack, Amy Roosa. First off, Amy tells us how she got started with the conference, who it targets, and what it's all about as well as the main industries that safety professionals are coming from. She then gives us a breakdown of her background and how she got into safety before discussing why women get the brunt of the frustrations people experience in safety more than their male colleagues. Next, Amy delves into the pros and cons of being a woman in the safety industry, the importance of calling sexism out, and why men must be allies. We then discuss the importance of having PPE made for women specifically and how The Safety Rack is changing the ‘shrink it, pink it' mentality.' To hear all this and how you can educate your employers to make a change for women, tune in now! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kurt reports in from the expo floor of the Utility Safety Conference & Expo to provide you with a comprehensive look at what's new in the FR industry!   This podcast is sponsored by T&D Powerskills. If you are looking for a comprehensive lineworker training solution, visit tdpowerskills.com today and use the exclusive podcast listener promo code podcast2021 to receive a 5% discount!

The 2022 iP Utility Safety Conference & Expo is fast approaching! Learn about all the great things we have planned for this outstanding learning event, including an astronaut keynote, a special excursion and a poolside networking event! To learn even more about the conference, go to utlitysafetyconference.com.   This podcast is sponsored by T&D Powerskills. If you are looking for a comprehensive lineworker training solution, visit tdpowerskills.com today and use the exclusive podcast listener promo code podcast2021 to receive a 5% discount!

We are joined with Amy Roosa on this episode. Amy has worked the last 18 years in the field of safety, ranging from construction to general industry, and currently works with Amerigas as their Regional Safety Manager. She has worked with organizations such as the National Safety Council, helping create the Government and Public Sector Division, and has worked with the ASSP Hawkeye Chapter, most recently in the role as Vice President.She is a regular speaker at conferences ranging on topics from training to leadership. But, her biggest accomplishment to safety is here in Iowa as co-creator and founder of the Iowa Women in Safety Conference.  She talks all things safety tips and tricks! In safety, resilience is key to being a safety director. Learn more about our risk management department here - https://ibcins.biz/risk-management/. 

The Utility Safety Virtual Conference on May 4-6 will mark the 16th year of its existence. From its start as a small, humble gathering of utility safety and operations professionals back in 2005, it has evolved into an event that now hosts hundreds of attendees and exhibitors twice a year. In this episode, we sit down with the creator of both Incident Prevention magazine and the conference, Carla Housh, and the event coordinator of the conference, Melissa Housh, to talk about what makes this event so important to those who work in the highly-specialized area of utility safety.  ________________________________ This podcast is sponsored by T&D Powerskills. If you are looking for a comprehensive lineworker training solution, visit tdpowerskills.com today and use the exclusive podcast listener promo code podcast2021 to receive a 5% discount!

Sarah Gamblin-Luig joined the CEMA in 2010 as a Specialist responsible for public information, community outreach, training, exercise, and general topics emergency management. In 2012, Sarah was promoted to Communications Center Coordinator taking responsibility for all notification and communication equipment and processes for the agency. In addition to those tasks, Sarah has served on a number of committees and advisory councils responsible for developing policy at the local, state, and federal levels. They have also served as the lead on several high-profile events, including Major League Baseball Playoffs, National Hockey League Playoffs, Fair St. Louis, and the city's responses to civil unrest.An authority on social media, Sarah has been a member of the executive board of Social Media Club St. Louis, has been a speaker at the Government Social Media Social for Safety Conference, Missouri Emergency Management Conference, Northeast Illinois Public Information Officers Association Conference, the Red Cross Preparedness Academy, and has also presented to groups from the Federal Commission on School Safety, the St. Louis Federal Executive Board, the New Leaders Council, and the World Affairs Council of St. Louis. They have also been a consultant for several departments and organizations as they look to engage in using social media for local government or emergency response purposes. In 2015, Sarah was appointed to the Department of Homeland Security's Science & Technology Directorate's Social Media Working Group for Emergency Services and Disaster Management which establishes and collects best practices and solutions to be utilized by public safety officials throughout the nation. Sarah is a member of the Government Social Media Organization, National Information Officers Association, and the Engaging Local Government Leaders Organization. They also work with Team Rubicon and serve as the Incident Management Team (IMT) Public Information Officer (PIO). They also volunteer as a bugler, performing Taps at military ceremonies and memorial services in the St. Louis area.Sarah has responded to several tornadoes, floods, and hurricanes across the country filling roles from incident commander to chainsaw operator.Here Twitter handled @commsdomHer Linked In Account https://www.linkedin.com/in/gamblinluig/Support the show (https://t.co/GOmAg9X6e8?amp=1)

In this episode of the Dust Safety Science podcast, we announce the 2021 Global Dust Safety Conference and what you can expect in terms of schedule and presentations.

Today on the Rated R Safety Show, our host talks about 4/20 and what people do, what people do to celebrate. He issues a challenge on the video stream for a safety organization to come on the show by May 5th to discuss their plans for their Safety Conference. Enjoy it all on the Rated R Safety Show.

Today on the Rated R Safety Show, our host talks about 4/20 and what people do, what people do to celebrate. He issues a challenge on the video stream for a safety organization to come on the show by May 5th to discuss their plans for their Safety Conference. Enjoy it all on the Rated R Safety Show.

Today on The Rated R Safety Show, we talk about all the happenings around the world. We discuss the letter for the SAFETY CONFERENCE. If you are having suicidal thoughts, and need someone to speak with go to here.

Today on The Rated R Safety Show, we talk about all the happenings around the world. We discuss the letter for the SAFETY CONFERENCE. If you are having suicidal thoughts, and need someone to speak with go to here.

In this podcast episode, we review the top five questions we’ve received about the upcoming 2020 Digital Dust Safety Conference, which runs from February 24-27. 

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This week on The Construction Record podcast, national managing editor Vince Versace talks about the upcoming Conexpo conference in Las Vegas, where we'll be a supporting podcast and also recaps our coverage of the Vancouver Regional Construction Association's Gold Awards of Excellence, as well as reflecting on former Journal of Commerce publisher Brian Martin's role in founding and growing the awards over the decades. Vince also has a preview of the Canadian Council for Public-Private Partnerships conference, coming up later this month in Toronto. Journal of Commerce digital media editor Warren Frey and staff writer Russell Hixson also look at some of the stories they've been working on, including reactions from western Canadian construction leaders about both the recent federal election and the Alberta budget, and a peek at Russell's story about a tour through Daiya's massive Vancouver industrial space. Warren also attended the British Columbia Construction Safety Alliance's Health and Safety Conference, and spoke to WorkSafeBC audiologist Sasha Brown about the dangers of noise on the worksite and ways to mitigate hearing damage, and he also spoke to University of British Columbia researcher Shalinda Shafie about her work examining the effectiveness of various kinds of vacuums in dealing with silica and its effects on respiration.

In this podcast episode, we announce the 2020 Digital Dust Safety Conference. We also review the history of what we’ve accomplished with this podcast and discuss future plans for spreading awareness of combustible dust safety.

Episode 23 features special guests Labor Commissioner Cherie Berry; Amanda Scott, president of the Carolina Star Board; Carey West, member of the Carolina Star Board; and LaMont Smith, NCDOL recognition program manager. This episode was recorded the during the Carolina Star Safety Conference in Greensboro.

Powered by iReportSource How Do I Get The Most Out of My Safety Conference Attendance? A professional safety conference always best treated as a learning experience. Your company is probably footing the bill, and so you may be tempted to handle your next safety conference as a paid vacation. Don’t do that, as you’ll be missing one of the most significant growth opportunities in this field and your career. Here, I’ve included four simple tips to get the very most out of your attendance in a safety or any other conference.  1. Treat the Conference Like a Class If you’re attending a safety conference, the odds are good that you’re a safety professional, and that means the odds are good that you’ve spent some time in a classroom at some point in your life. To make the most of this experience, you need to bring those skills to bear on conference seminars, workshops, and demonstrations. An excellent way to take notes at a conference is to identify which areas your organization could improve, and then tailoring your attendance schedule to events that address these specific issues. It may help to prepare an outline of events you want to attend ahead of time, and use that outline to guide your note-taking during the events themselves.  2. Compare Notes with Other Professionals Here is an example; take your written safety plans for your company. One of the most beneficial ways to interact with the safety conference is to bring copies of safety programs based on scheduled sessions/events with you so that you might compare it against the suggestions and innovations offered. In this way, you’ll be able to identify where your plans could be improved, and what aspects of your programs have been rendered out-of-date by advances in technology. Likewise, actively working on your plans while attending the conference will give you the bonus of providing a product that you can show your employer. By communicating to your colleagues and supervisors a tangible benefit to your attendance, your organization will be much more likely to consider participating in the future--which is an excellent way of saying you might be able to earn yourself another free working vacation! 3. Participate! Another critical aspect of making the most of any conference is to participate in events and workshops actively. Some of the brightest minds in safety management will be on hand to answer questions--take advantage of this tremendous opportunity to get insight into your organization’s problems by identifying areas in which your team could improve and drafting a series of questions to ask during the question and answer sessions that often follow convention events.  4. Pace Yourself Some conference goers face the opposite problem than that alluded to in point three; they not only participate, they run themselves into the ground doing so. Rebecca Knight, of the Harvard Business Review, notes that conference-goers who are enjoying the experience and that are actively engaged in what’s going on tend to get a lot more out of their attendance than those who feel pressure to perform. Ms. Knight suggests that it’s okay to spend a significant amount of time with a few select people if you’re more comfortable networking among smaller crowds. Put another way, don’t feel pressured to perform or participate in a way that’s going to distract you. The key to getting the most out of a safety conference is to be actively and positively engaged with the material, and you can’t do that if you’re always in a state of dread or fear-remember, not everyone is built the same way and that’s okay. Let me know what you think. Send an email to info@thesafetypropodcast.com and share with me your thoughts about safety conferences. Find me on LinkedIn! Post a LinkedIn update, letting me know what you think of the podcast. Be sure to @ mention Blaine J. Hoffmann or The SafetyPro Podcast LinkedIn page. You can also find the podcast on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter!

Yesterday was CBIA’s (CT Business and Industry Association) annual Safety Conference.  Phil Montgomery and team hosted a wonderful event.  What continues to impress me when I am with the safety community is that the people are motivated by mission, not personal gain.  Just after weather and sports we are going to pause for a moment of self-reflection to assess OUR motivation and if we convey a trustworthy attitude.  Coming up… an important STARPOWER moment on WTIC your coaching connection.

What does a stadium collapse, baseball, fire fighting, and taking a shower have in common? In this episode we explore the concept of expertise and ask does it have a dark side? Indeed, can failures sometimes occur precisely because we possess expertise? But before all that we'll join a group of firefighters about to step into an obscure valley in Montana in 1949... Sean delivered this presentation to approximately 550 delegates attending the Queensland Mining Industry Health and Safety Conference in August 2016. The title of the presentation was “Wedded to Our Tools – Why Expertise Can Hold Us back”. Look out for the next episode of the Brady Heywood Podcast in mid January 2017. Detailed information on the Mann Gulch fire can be found at https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/52fa7d_3daddbe131be4dd48103f16aeff52d6c.pdf and  https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/52fa7d_3b0c3157e10d4b89bb16b200d58a049d.pdf

Alanna Ball felt a little lost in health and safety, she wanted to belong to a family, a tribe. There was no tribe for her, so she led others who were in a similar place to form a tribe: Women in Safety.  What a tribe! Join us in the interview for a great insight into the importance of a professional family or tribe, and the opportunity for you to leverage other work-families and work-tribes to drastically improve health and safety. We also get two FREE slices of conference-goodness, from the the 2016 South Australian Health and Safety Conference, with thanks from conference organisers Informa.  I chat on the couch with a very vivacious Professor Ian Maddocks (Australian of the Year, no less), who shares some very thought-provoking insights into the amazing opportunities, and things to consider for, ageing workforce, and John Cvetko, a client relationship manager who knows a thing or two about improving health and safety outcomes through a sharp focus on our customers. Let’s get to know each other! Connect with Safety on Tap on LinkedIn, or me Andrew Barrett.  If Facebook is more your thing, check out @safetyontap If you want to get in touch with me, send me an email! andrew@safetyontap.com

"Where shall I begin, your Majesty?" he asked.  "Begin at the beginning," the King said gravely, "and go-on until the end: then stop". Thanks Lewis Carroll, the King, and the White Rabbit who asked such a great question in the first place! Since this is episode ZERO (not that kind of zero...) of the Safety on Tap podcast, I thought it gentlemanly that I tell you a little about my WHY....and a little bit more about me. Towards the end I also share two short-but-great interviews, which I recorded at the 2016 South Australian Health and Safety Conference, with thanks from conference organisers Informa. Marie Boland, Executive Director of SafeWork SA shares with us how she is disrupting her organisation from the inside, and David Clarke, CEO of the Safety Institute of Australia, makes the case for professional certification and the momentum of the health and safety profession in Australia. Not to be missed! Let's get to know each other! Connect with Safety on Tap on LinkedIn, or me Andrew Barrett, and check out the website for much more www.safetyontap.com If you want to get in touch with me, send me an email! andrew@safetyontap.com