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I feel that in my attempts to improve my own effectiveness, which hopefully translates into better health and safety outcomes, I have spent way more time trying to understand what's going on outside people (the workplace, the environment, the design of work), than on the inside of people, and our brains in particular.

I'm not sure that makes sense, given how complex, and how powerful, our brains are.

Today's guest Amanda Wang Valentine shares her quest to better understand what's happening in our brains, with a focus on attention.  Listen here to see how she is pushing the edges of current health and safety practice.

In today's episode we cover:

1:52 Living in Hollywood, attitudes to water & legalised marijuana

4:40 The land of the free, including everyone's right to an opinion

7:10 Amanda's journey to where she is now (it includes our Prime Minister)

11:44 The link between Intel, Netflix and Morgan Freeman

15:56 Shifting focus from physical hazards to our brains

17:41 Optimising cognitive skills

20:21 The birth of enHone's idea

23:52 Tough Q1: Where's the evidence?

28:32 Tough Q2: Will the safety 'buyers' be too risk averse (fearful) to try this?

34:33 My confession about a recent failure

37:15 The existential challenge: It's not all about safety

38:08 Tough Q3: What are the ethical/legal/industrial challenges to improving attention?

44:02 The first easy question: Amanda's suggestions for additional reading

On those few books we discussed, here's the links if you want to check them out:

The brain that changes itself, by Norman Doidge

Nudge, by Richard Thaler

SWITCH, by Chip & Dan Heath

I’d love you to subscribe, rate and review the podcast on iTunes, this helps spread the good word, so help me help you help a friend!   Let’s get to know each other! Connect with Safety on Tap on LinkedIn, or me Andrew Barrett.  If Facebook is more your thing, check out @safetyontap If you want to get in touch with me, send me an email! andrew@safetyontap.com

  Make life easier for yourself.  Subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher!   Kobi Simmat tells it straight.  If you don't like feeling just a little bit uncomfortable about the ineffective status quo, probably best not to listen. ALTHOUGH....you must be ok with being a little uncomfortable, since that's the space where growth occurs.  And that's why you listen to this podcast.  So maybe this is just right for you.   In this chat, we cover:

1:33 Kobi's view on WHS

4:25 Open cheque book leads to financial haemorrhaging into 'safety'

5:47 Kobi and I on how effective video and audio are

6:57 Master & apprentice vs more paperwork

7:59 NOT Auditors - Best Practice Assessor

8:51 Ban document control non-conformances

10:08 The System, must recognise failure in the form of practice

10:47 The bad reputation of the certification industry vs a best practice mindset

16:27 Learning by using FOMO

16:37 Using certification for good or evil in procurement

20:01 The death of the certification industry?

24:02 Show me your dashboard

27:03 Kobi's view of the future of workplace health and safety

31:41 Kobi's top tips for improving WHS

I'd love you to subscribe, rate and review the podcast on iTunes, this helps spread the good word, so help me help you help a friend!

  Let’s get to know each other! Connect with Safety on Tap on LinkedIn, or me Andrew Barrett.  If Facebook is more your thing, check out @safetyontap If you want to get in touch with me, send me an email! andrew@safetyontap.com  

  Make life easier for yourself.  Subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher!   Starkers (Naked).  You know what it feels like to be really open and honest? Well, you get 100% ME in this episode, come behind the curtain as I share a bit of general reflection, about podcasting, answers to common questions I get, and a little bit about how I'm improving the podcast moving forward.   In this chat, we cover: 2:10 I confess - Podcasting wasn't in my plan 3: 12 The magic of podcasting (you'll be surprised with what I think) 4:34 What we can learn from the grass not being greener on the other side 8:49 What I actually do apart from hosting Safety on Tap 10:56 Show respect to people through preparation 12:38 The skill of asking questions 15:26 Collaboration: A recipe for success 19:08 Co-opetition vs competition 21:52 Reflecting on the National Safety Convention 23:34 Innovation through reverse thinking - Less safety on this podcast 24:36 Tell me who you want to hear interviewed and I'll make it happen 26:55 Shout-out to a few listeners for their feedback   I'd love you to subscribe, rate and review the podcast on iTunes, this helps spread the good word, so help me help you help a friend!   Let’s get to know each other! Connect with Safety on Tap on LinkedIn, or me Andrew Barrett.  If Facebook is more your thing, check out @safetyontap If you want to get in touch with me, send me an email! andrew@safetyontap.com