The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents traces it's history back to a meeting in London, in 1916, the attendees of which resolved to create a Councilto tackle " the alarming increase in traffic accidents, and the direct connection therewith of the restricted street lighting which had been necessitated by the War conditions".

My guest today is Dr. Karen McDonnell, the Head of RoSPA Scotland and the organisations Occupational Health and Safety Policy Advisor. 

Today I welcome back friend of the show and previous guest Michelle Oberg, to fill us in on some new ideas, her new but not so new role, and what new things we might consider if we want to innovate in safety. Michelle is the Safety Innovation Lead in the transport and infrastructure division of Downer, which employs over 50,000 people across Australia and New Zealand designing, building and sustaining a bunch of different infrastructure and facilities assets.

Close your eyes for a minute, assuming you are not jogging or walking down a busy street. If you are, maybe stop, because this is the #1 question you need to answer to drastically improve your performance.

I'm going to ask this question, and you need to immediately grab the answer which comes to your mind - don’t think about this, this is not a thinking question.

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Learning focused dialogue on social media, especially when people disagree, too easily disintegrates into defensiveness, confusion, and negativity.

So let’s take online dialogue offline

Today's guest Sarah Cuscadden will be sharing her journey of understanding and shaping the health and safety experience in her company, in a half-day masterclass at the 2019 Safetyscape convention, part of the new events offering from the Safety Institute of Australia on from the 21st to 23rd of May in Sydney.  The #SAFETYSCAPE Convention brings together a range of industry partners committed to health and safety to assemble as the largest gathering of Health & Safety professionals across a program of events, workshops, forums. 

My guest today is Cameron Cox, a Director of Safety for Sydney's enormous metro and rail construction projects.  Cameron is an expert, and his expertise is what he shares today.Cameron will be sharing his personal and professional expertise, taking us through his journey inside the Sydney Metro project at the 2019 Safetyscape convention, part of the new events offering from the Safety Institute of Australia on from the 21st to 23rd of May in Sydney.  

This episode was really far more left field as an idea which when I suggested it to my guest today, he jumped at my guest is Ron Gantt, who some of you will know as the editor of the safetydifferently.com blog. This all started with a post, which Ron put on LinkedIn.

This is what the Post said.

He said, what makes having a meaningful constructive conversation between people who disagree with one another hard on this website.

2018 was a tough year for me as I faced a lot of challenges ahead but I approached the challenged differently and I want to share it to you today, a quote from Theodore Roosevelt popped up in my social feeds which is been timing on the day when I needed it and I've adapted it, it's called "The Man in the Arena"

Today, for the first time, I have two guests on! Double the value. We discuss the limitation of retributive approaches, the popular but unachievable ideas behind restorative approaches, and the benefits of underpinning our work with transformative thinking and approaches.

What's it all about, and what are the alternatives? Check them out, here's Campbell and John:

Listen in to this episode for my very brief year in review, my word of the year for 2019, and why any of that is actually relevant for you.

Sometimes it's good to just not think.  And then sometimes its good to think, but about nothing in particular.  And sometimes, that thinking leads you to places from which some insight emerges, like about balance, averages, mediocrity and what we don't know.

I am really excited to be back with you for 2019, if you are listening soon after this comes out.  In this episode I share with you a few reflections from the break which I thought would be helpful to get your cogs turning, and I have some gifts for you towards the end of this episode. 

Let's get to it.  The year is coming to a close, so much to do and so little time! Today I'm chatting with Eric Knight.  Eric is the Global Head of Safety, Health and Environment at AstraZeneca, who isn't content with implementing good safety health and environment in the company, he thinks there is a bigger mission than that.  And it all ties in with the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, or SDG's.