A podcast for EHS professionals

Safety Labs by Safety Products Global is a podcast where we explore the human side of safety to support safety professionals. We move past regulations and reportables to talk about the core skills of safety leadership: empathy, influence, trust, rapport. In other words, the soft skills that help you do the hard stuff.

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Developing Non-technical Safety Skills

This week on Safety Labs by Safety Products Global: Anna Keen. Anna explores the changing role of a safety professional, especially the skill set required to support effective safety management in today’s workplaces. Autocratic, fault-finding, and fixing-everything approaches have evolved into learning-, influencing-, and enabling-based leadership. Anna shares the key non-technical development opportunities that will help EHS professionals ensure that safety is baked in - rather than bolted on - to the way organizations function.

Lessons from Healthcare Safety Management

This week on Safety Labs by Safety Products Global: Dr. Anne Lyren. Anne discusses the relationship between patient and worker safety in pediatric healthcare - and why improving employee well-being is more challenging. She highlights the importance of psychological safety and understanding worker adaptation in her organization’s journey from standardization to systemic learning. It’s a great case study, and the interview concludes with many practical tools to help EHS professionals enhance their worker’s safety.

Fixing the Foundations of Safety

This week on Safety Labs by Safety Products Global: Clive Lloyd. Clive’s research has left him in doubt about the biggest predictor of safety performance: trust. Applying cutting-edge psychological evidence to safety leadership, he shows how mistrust creates fear and silence that block organizational learning. Instead, psychosocial and psychological safety with authentic leadership can overcome these barriers to create caring and just cultures for workers. EHS professionals will gain practical insights to build trust, encourage openness, and create the foundation for successful safety management.

Securing Senior Support for Safety

This week on Safety Labs by Safety Products Global: François Barton. François believes there's a significant opportunity to make workplaces safer by framing safety initiatives to leadership in the context of business priorities. He explains why being less passionate, understanding your organization’s situation and objectives, navigating complexity, and communicating effectively will help EHS professionals influence decision-makers and ultimately improve safety performance.

Investigating Workplace Harassment

This week on Safety Labs by Safety Products Global: Dave Rebbitt. Workplace harassment is now taken far more seriously - but are EHS managers equipped to deal with this issue? Dave has written a best-selling book to help the safety profession manage this psychosocial hazard. He explores the complexities of workplace harassment investigations, common challenges, the importance of qualified investigators, and how balancing fairness and transparency will improve outcomes for individuals and organizations.

Why Aren’t We Learning from Safety Incidents?

This week on Safety Labs by Safety Products Global: Gill Kernick. Gill reflects on the Grenfell Tower fire tragedy and explores why systemic failures and missed lessons persist across organizations. This is a heartfelt message to the safety profession for deeper organizational learning beyond piecemeal fixes, emphasizing the value of context, complexity, equity and diverse perspectives. Gill gives EHS professionals life-altering guidance on how to learn better from incidents and prevent future accidents.

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