Ep217: Some nuances to safety professional practice with Tim Lie

Safety on Tap

Full show notes: www.safetyontap.com/ep217

What does it sound like, to have permission to not focus on certain things in health and safety? What one concept are we missing from risk management that makes a massive difference?

Hey, it’s Andrew, and this is Safety on Tap.

Since you're listening in, you must be a leader wanting to grow yourself and drastically improve health and safety along the way. Welcome to you, you're in the right place. If this is your first time listening in, thanks for joining us and well done for trying something different to improve! And of course welcome back to all of you wonderful regular listeners.

My guest today is Tim Lie. Is he a safety professional? I ask him that, so you'll have to wait and see what he says. What I can tell you is that his roles have included group HSE responsibilities, lifecycle alignment, culture, and capability. You don't often hear those things in people's job titles, do you?

I met Tim a while back when I was invited along to a national health and safety team workshop. It took all of 2 minutes for me to be really curious about Tim. He is broadly read, he has both a practitioner and academic background, he is an engineer who loves solving problems but is hyper tuned into the messy people side of business, and he talks in a way that gives you a deep insight into how his brain works, which is fascinating.

So that's why I wanted to introduce him to you! We had a wide ranging chat, dove deep on a few things but still covered a fair bit of ground. I hope you enjoy, here's my chat with Tim Lie: