This week on the Culturally Intelligent Safety Professional we talk to Deborah Rhodes, Deborah is a Dairy Farmer, award winning academic and health and safety advocate. Deborah talks to us about Mission Orientated Research which she suggests as a way to achieve goals.
We discuss the risk profile of a farming environment something Deborah came to later in life after a career as a nurse and working in pharmaceuticals. During the discussion Deborah highlighted the value of Farm Assistants and their risk profile and it made me think about what other roles within an industry might have a similar profile and one that came to mind was the spotter on a construction site, in some ways holds huge responsibility, may not have high skills exposed to a range of hazards, but is usually a role that doesn’t get much attention. Who on your site or in your industry might fit the same profile?
Deborah is passionate about promoting the wellbeing of workers and she is right when she discusses the lack of attention we give to this subject in our workplaces, highlighting it as a more holistic approach than the way we typically focus on worker health, wellbeing brings a much wider scope to the discussion.
There is lots of great content around workers needs and how employers need to engage with their workers to better understand and appreciate those needs and we finished off with a discussion around the United Nations Sustainability Development Goals, an area Deborah suggest health and safety professionals use to guide their work.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/deborah-rhodes-1095b72a/
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