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The Safety Spotlight Podcast brings workplace safety leaders, innovators, and change-makers into the conversation.
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Safety Is a Value, Not a Priority: Bill Hart on Why That Distinction Matters (opens the original)
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Bill Hart is a fifth-generation miner from West Virginia. He watched his grandfather die of black lung when he was sixteen, and later watched the same disease take his father. He now starts work at a gold mine in South Carolina alongside his son, the sixth generation in the family to go underground.In this episode, Bill makes a case that most safety programs get backwards: safety isn't a priority, it's a value. Priorities shift with the quarter. Values don't. He walks through what that means in
Blame Is a Dead End: Michael Bassey on Where Accountability Actually Sits (opens the original)
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A broken door handle nobody fixed will tell you more about your safety culture than your incident numbers will.Michael Bassey has spent two decades in process safety across Nigeria, Qatar, the UAE, Argentina and North America, leading high-risk, high-consequence investigations. In 2010 he ran one that was thorough, detailed, and well received by leadership. Eight months later the same facility tripped again. Different shift, different people, same outcome. That gap is what he has been chasing ev
Safety Is the Accelerant: Brian Fielkow on Why Safe Companies Grow Faster (opens the original)
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Ask a room full of employees whose job safety is, and plenty of hands will point at the safety department. Brian Fielkow got that answer when he bought his own trucking company, and he calls it the wrong one. Brian did not arrive in safety the usual way. He started out practising business law in Milwaukee, where meeting clients across a range of industries taught him to look for patterns. He went to work for his favourite client, a three generation recycling company, helped grow it, and sold it
Sometimes You’re Just Getting Lucky: Cody Woolf on the Gap Between No Incidents and Real Safety (opens the original)
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Ask most organizations how safety is going and they will hand you their incident numbers. Cody Woolf would rather know what happens on site when the senior leaders aren’t there. Cody didn’t come to safety the usual way either. He went to school for law enforcement and criminal justice, then spent his early career in commercial vehicle enforcement with the Alberta government, pulling vehicles over on the highway and learning to have difficult conversations quickly. A friend moved into the safety
Beyond the Checklist: Nicole Wesch on Practical Safety Leadership (opens the original)
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What can safety leaders in construction, oil and gas, and manufacturing learn from a workplace where you can't pause an emergency to fill out a hazard assessment?In this episode of Safety Spotlight, we sit down with Nicole Wetsch, Manager of Occupational Health and Safety for the Edmonton Police Service. Nicole started her career in medical microbiology and nanotechnology research before moving into policing, and she brings a scientist's discipline to one of the least prescriptive safety environ
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