SafetyAtWorkBlog’s new podcast series “Safety At Work Talks” is now available through iTunes at http://apple.co/2kY23bR
The first episode is a conversation with Professor Sidney Dekker.
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Safety At Work Talks podcast launched
The popularity of Australian podcasting about workplace safety is increasing with a personable Sydney occupational health and safety (OHS) lawyer launching one this month. SafetyAtWorkBlog is also joining that growth with the Safety At Work Talks podcast this week.
SafetyAtWorkBlog originally podcasted a decade ago through iTunes. I participated in a podcast series last year called Cabbage Salad and Safety. Safety At Work Talks is going to be a series that complements the SafetyAtWorkBlog by providing exclusive interviews with prominent safety people and academics.
Safety At Work Talks already has a series of episodes recorded with Professor Sidney Dekker. These will cover
- Dekker’s Safety Differently documentary,
- Dekker’s April 2017 book – “The End of Heaven”,
- Dekker’s new (November 2017) book – “The Safety Anarchist – Relying on human expertise and innovation; reducing bureaucracy and compliance“, and
- A brief chat about how Just Culture has changed.
The first of these episodes is Professor Sidney Dekker talking to me, Kevin Jones, about his new documentary “Safety Differently”. You can hear it below or at this link: https://soundcloud.com/safetyatworkblog/safetyatworktalks-dekker-doco-101017
Safety At Work Talks will be available for listening through a number of podcast platforms, including the SafetyAtWorkBlog site:
Podbean – https://safetyoz.podbean.com/
SoundCloud – https://soundcloud.com/safetyatworkblog
Exclusive interview with Hans-Horst Konkolewsky on Vision Zero
A major theme of the World Congress of Safety and Health 2017 is the extension and strengthening of the Vision Zero concept. One of major advocates of this is Hans-Horst Konkolewsky, of the International Social Security Association. Konkolewsky sees Vision Zero as a “life changer”.
Any safety concept that includes the word “zero” is inflammatory to some sectors of the Australian occupational health and safety (OHS) profession as is evident by some of the tweets received by @SafetyOz over the last few hours. Late on Day One a question from the audience also expressed wariness over the use of the concept. However SafetyAtWorkBlog was able to interview Konkolewsky at the congress over a decade after our first interview, when he was head of EU-OSHA. We outlined the Australian perspective – “Zero Harm” – and his clarification of Vision Zero is important.
Below is audio of the exclusive seven minute interview.
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Psychology, Leadership and Jonathan Lincolne
Episode 47 of Andrew Barrett’s Safety On Tap podcast consisted of an interview with Jonathan Lincolne of Pockets of Brilliance. Several comments are of note.
Psychology
Around the 47 minute mark, Lincolne is asked about the level of psychological knowledge that the occupational health and safety (OHS) professionals should possess. Lincolne refreshingly describes himself as a skeptic about a lot of the recent psychological discussion, particularly the promotion of neuroscience.
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SafetyAtWorkBlog Audio available
SafetyAtWorkBlog has launched a SoundCloud page that includes audio of some of the interviews I have done for the blog and an early podcast incarnation.
https://soundcloud.com/safetyatworkblog
Audio versions of some SafetyAtWorkBlog articles are also being gradually uploaded. These usually run for only around five minutes but are an alternate way of catching up with some SafetyAtWorkBlog articles on your way to work or when stuck in traffic.
The SoundCloud page also includes episodes of some of the safety podcasters.
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New communications on workplace safety
Jen Jackson is a communications adviser who has come to prominence in the occupational health and safety (OHS) sector in Australia over the last 12 months for lots of reasons. She is young, female and talks clearly and sensible – all elements that many do not associate with OHS. Jackson is always worth listening to…
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Two old SafetyAtWork podcasts remain relevant
Over the Christmas break I was cleaning out some files and found some old SafetyAtWork podcast files that used to be on iTunes around a decade ago. The information and perspectives remain important and to preserve the files I have uploaded them to SoundCloud.
One is an interview with Professor Michael Quinlan shortly after the Beaconsfield mine inquiry. The other is a presentation to the Central Safety Group by freelance journalist Gideon Haigh about the corporate approach to asbestos and compensation off the back of the publication of his Asbestos House book.
More will be posted over the next few weeks.