Colin is joined Simon Cassin, a director at OUCH Training, who believe that a safe working environment benefits everyone. Simon joins Colin to discuss the ever-more prescient topic of ethics and morality in the health and safety sector.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
In order to truly take safety forward, we must fully consider what it is we believe in. We must question the paradigms. We must question all assumptions.
Health and safety professionals must ensure that we are working to prevent harm to people. Secondary to this is to prevent harm to the business.
Perfecting the right language allows us to build the correct framework. We must have a structure against which is built the framework of safety, clearly defined by the right terminology.
The most important consideration in the ethical and moral side of safety is to keep the conversation going. We must never discount a viewpoint, and must remain open to working with everyone to ensure a fair and balanced landscape.
BEST MOMENTS
'If I can't say why that's a good decision, then maybe I ought not to make it'
'We need more definite understanding of what we mean by harm and safe'
'If you go all one way, or all another way, you're going to come across problems'
'We are heroes before the accident'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
OUCH Training - https://www.ouchtraining.co.uk/the-ouch-oracle/simon-cassin/
Simon Cassin LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-cassin-frsph-cmiosh-miirsm-gife-60506846/?originalSubdomain=uk
ABOUT THE 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).
