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Ep151: Turning health & safety into a service function, with Kersty Christensen 0

Jul 31, 2020

Today's guest recently shared a photo of her lying in the middle of one of the busiest commercial airport runways in Australia. Whilst no planes were flying given Covid-19 disruption, it was an apt visual metaphor for the scope and scale of the operations at Brisbane Airport Corporation. Kersty Christensen is the Head of Health and Safety at Brisbane Airport Corporation and has led this transformation of her function into service to her organisation.

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Ep150: Rethinking redundancy, with Andrew Barrett 0

Jul 24, 2020

Redundancy is a word quite familiar to health and safety people, we use it in good times, and we fear it in bad times. And I think we always have the wrong end of the stick, for all the wrong reasons.

Today I want to talk about the way we talk about redundancy, to reflect on the irony which is emerging about redundancy, and to suggest a more constructive way for us to talk about our place in the world.

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Ep149: Knowing, seeing and leading through paradoxes, with Dr Tristan Casey 0

Jul 15, 2020

Today I'm chatting with Dr. Tristan Casey. He has an interest in teamwork, leadership, and organizational culture. Tristan teaches into the Graduate Certificate of Safety Leadership and Bachelor of Social Science at Griffith University. Recently, he completed his second doctorate, this time in safety leadership.

Tristan is currently working on research around the management of safety amid COVID19, psychological safety, and safety climate.

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Ep148: Here is your ribbon, with Andrew Barrett 0

Jul 6, 2020

I was asked to be a judge of these awards. I declined. Later on was asked to help present the Young Safety Professional of the Year award, by way of a video interview since the awards were virtually presented, which I did do, which is kind of peripheral to this episode, but if you stick around after the music at the end I share a few reflections on why I said yes to that very intentionally.

I wanted to share with you my intent about these decisions, which is less about me and this story and more about how you can reflect more deeply on why you do or don't do certain things, and how you can leverage your circle of control to make the world a better place, to actively construct a better future.

Part of this episode draws on the discussion and email with the organisers, explaining my polite decline to be a judge, my reasoning and my not-so-subtle nudging towards something better than average.

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