Colin’s back with a brand new episode of The Interesting Health & Safety podcast; this week we explore how we can apply the same strategies and tactics which make sports teams so successful to your own business. Colin describes how small improvements in your workforce’s traits could take your company’s health and safety to the next level.
Key Takeaways:
GOOD WORK ETHIC & TEAM SPIRIT. Simple changes such as investing in a good, clean environment will ensure employees will respect and take pride in their work. Encourage staff by rewarding good practice, tell people when they have done well. These are sure ways to improve productivity.
TRAINING & COMMUNICATION. It is vital that the people you have to get the right skills and experience to do the job to a high standard. Invest your time by communicating with staff to ensure training is being followed. Use high achieving key players as an example for other staff to follow.
GOOD PLANNING & CONTINUAL IMPROVEMENT. A winning business requires good planning and management to succeed. Colin explains how leaders should set the bar high for the other employees through leading by example. Establish an environment which has great morale where people are continually looking out for each other
CLEAR STRATEGY. Does your company have clear strategies for responding to a crisis? Colin explains the importance of running drills to ensure your systems work and everybody is following them. Get the workforce involved, encourage them to take ownership of health and safety to protect themselves and their employees.
Best Moments
“To be proud of your workplace people need to respect it”“Don’t compromise yourself, aim high. “The more you practice, the luckier you get”“Continually strive to improve the way you that do the jobs that involve the most risk in business”“You may end up winning your own World Cup”ABOUT HOST:Colin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry.
Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, -an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought after health and safety speaker and trainer.
He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
