In todays episode of The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast, Colin discusses how this time of year is fantastic for motivating yourself to ‘sort stuff out’, clear out clutter and the therapeutic nature of doing so for your business!
Colin shares a few simple ideas to help you ‘sort it out’
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Overheads; What are you paying out and when did you last get a quote? (did you get a discount or compare?)
How Often are your extinguishers checked & equipment PAT tested? This swings both ways, not enough or too often. There is not definitive answer as to when and how frequent, but Colin says therein lies the simple and sane ‘sensible’ answer.
Health & Safety Policy and Procedures: How long are they? Are they relevant? This can be telling of not only yourselves as a business but also the people who wrote these documents(were it not yourself).
Most Importantly, Look at your PEOPLE: What are their competencies? When were they last given any health and safety training? When were they last challenged to improve their and your place of work?
It's about YOU setting the standards
ABOUT HOSTColin 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).
