The Occupational Safety Leadership Podcast

Episode 267 - Matt Herron of the Southwest Research Institute

On today's episode Dr. Ayers speaks to Matt Herron of the Southwest Research Institute.  We discuss ergonomics and awkward postures along with garnering management support for correcting hazards.  Matt was also featured on Episode 91 where we discussed the basics of ergonomics and cabinet lasers.  Matt is a wealth of knowledge and a legend in the Occupational Safety field.

Episode 266 - Patience in Occupational Safety

In today's episode, Dr. Ayers talks about having patience when implementing safety programs, policies, metrics.  Change will not happen overnight.

Episode 265 - Be the Safety Leader that you want to follow

In today's episode, Dr. Ayers talks about important life lessons he learned from former bosses.  Are you the Safety Leader that you want to follow?

Episode 264 - Listen more than you speak

In today's episode, Dr. Ayers discusses a strategy that has worked very well for him when asking employees to identify hazards.  Do everything you can to listen more than you speak.  Employees have great insights to the hazards and how to correct them.

Episode 263 - Task Competency and Occupational Safety

In today's episode, Dr. Ayers discusses task competency and occupational safety.  When do you let a new hire operate on their own?  Is passing a test only considered competency or do they need to perform a hands-on demonstration?  Please like, listen and subscribe to the Occupational Safety Leadership Podcast.

Episode 262 - Ken Reed - Root Cause Analysis (RCA)

In today's episode, Dr. Ayers talks with Ken Reed, VP at TapRoot about Root Cause Analysis (RCA).  It's bad enough when an accident/incident occurs but companies should learn from it and make sure it never happens again. The point of RCA is to peel back the onion and figure out the root causes of the accident/incident.  Never blame the employee.  We discussed the power of root cause analysis along with an incident investigation to get you started.  This was a great interview with a lot of knowledge sharing to get safety professionals started on incident investigations.

Episode 261 - Story Telling and Occupational Safety

In today's episode, Dr. Ayers discusses the power of storytelling when presenting training in occupational safety.  Storytelling helps make the safety training personal and helps keep employees engaged in learning.

Episode 260 - Occupational Safety - Over Commitment

In today's episode, Dr. Ayers discusses the pitfalls of over commitment in occupational safety.  A strategy is to use a method to risk rank the hazard or risk.  Time, money, effort, etc. is a finite resource.  All hazards cannot be tackled at the same time.

Episode 259 - Expect Hardship in Occupational Safety

In today's episode, Dr. Ayers discusses that as Safety Professionals, we should expect hardship and stop thinking everything is so easy.  Get input and buy-in from employees, then implement policies, training, etc.  Then the employees have skin in the game.

Episode 258 - Tracy Krieger - Shelter in Place and 5150 in California

In today's episode, Dr. Ayers talks to Tracy Krieger of OC Safety about an incident she had at a company where an employee was experiencing a mental health crisis.  Tracy goes into the response and the lessons learned from the incident.  This was a great interview and outlines an area where Safety Professionals should have a plan ready in case such an incident happens in their workplace.