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A Safety Jester’s Guide to Building Resilience

This week on Safety Labs by Safety Products Global: Gerben Bekooy. Gerben explains why every organization needs a safety jester: an independent voice who challenges assumptions and reveals how work is really done. He explores how curiosity, balanced trust, and earlier involvement in work design can take safety beyond compliance and control, giving EHS professionals practical ways to ask better questions and build more organizational resilience.

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In this episode, Mary Conquest speaks with Gerben Bekooy - the Safety Jester - an author, keynote speaker, and consultant who specializes in organizational resilience, safety, and human performance.

How can we move safety beyond a compliance and control-focused function that is always late to the table?

Gerben believes that safety jesters are the answer!

Discover how they provide a light-hearted independent voice that brings a reality check, provokes alternative thinking, bridges power dynamics, and drives deeper learning. A combination of curiosity, humility, trust, candor, and humor will help safety finally shape how work is designed and done.

This entertaining conversation will seriously help EHS professionals enhance their role and influence, while safeguarding the reality and resilience in your organization.

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Gerben Bekooy

Find out more about the power of a Safety Jester: safetyjester.com – Your Safety Jester

Gerben’s consulting business: © emerge.nl – Consulting | Speaking | Publishing 

Access Gerben’s management books on Organisational Resilience: SNAFU Media – Against the current!

Gerben recommends: The Wellbeing Imperative: How Thriving People Drive High Performance - Collins, Ian

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