The Interesting Health and Safety Podcast
Environmental Health: Empower Others To Empower Yourself – with Phil Clarke
A few weeks ago Colin Nottage from the Interesting Health and Safety Podcast interviewed me. we covered my background as an Environmental Health Officer, and then moved on to how I help my organisation meet our ambitious aims in H&S over 350 operational sites and 16,000 employees.
Simple I said – have an awesome team and colleague to help you!
The podcast, Episode 102 in the series, is now available.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Health and safety is too often categorised as simple risk assessment, when the reality is much broader and all-encompassing, stretching from ground-level concerns, all the way through to the core drivers and motivations of a workforce.
By surrounding yourself with the best team you can find, you increase the potential of your effectiveness. Empowering others grows your capabilities.
Quarantine has demonstrated the effectiveness of remote meetings, and allowed businesses to see that much time can be saved by employing technologies in order to increase communication capabilities.
Development of our people, and health and wellbeing in general, should be planned well ahead, with firm goals set in attainable increments But we must also attempt to visualise the long-term future of what we hope to achieve.
BEST MOMENTS
‘If you empower people, they’ll be able to make your decisions locally’
‘We need to get key people involved in understanding health and safety’
‘You need to have short term strategy, but you need the long game goals, too’
‘It’s not a them-and-us situation. We’re all in this together’
You can find the episode via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcast, or whatever your favourite podcasting app is. A direct link: