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Teaching Real-World Safety with Dr. Ashley Gill

This week on Safety Labs by Safety Products Global: Dr. Ashley Gill. Ashley teaches and the next generation of EHS professionals and experienced practitioners, so has firsthand knowledge of the skills people are missing and where safety education can be improved. She shares stories of students' attitude toward safety, assesses how education has evolved and explores its future. Ashley also looks beyond training to give current EHS professionals practical guidance to raise real world workplace safety standards.

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In this episode, Mary Conquest speaks with Dr. Ashley Gill, an experienced safety consultant whose passion for developing the next generation of EHS professionals led her to teaching.

Through her work educating the next generation of EHS professionals, experienced practitioners and engineers, Ashley has firsthand knowledge of the habits, assumptions and gaps that shape how students understand safety. She shares stories from the classroom and explores the importance of teaching safety principles to professionals in adjacent roles.

Ashley explores how OHS education has evolved over recent years and how it can improve even further. She recognizes that certain elements including non-physical psychosocial risks, soft skills and wider culture enhancement should be key areas of focus going forward.

Dr. Gill’s unique perspective offers EHS professionals practical guidance to raise safety standards in the real world - and not just in theory.

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Dr. Ashley Gill

Dr. Ashley Gill, CSP, is a Principal Consultant at ERM with over 18 years of occupational safety and health experience. She serves as an Adjunct Professor at Tarleton State University and East Texas A&M, where she teaches courses in industrial safety, construction safety management, hazardous waste management and safety management systems. Ashley is passionate about developing the next generation of safety professionals and actively supports the greater safety community through her leadership roles in ASSP and Women in Safety Excellence (WISE).

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