Using Insurers To Help Challenge Big Industry Issues - with Andrew Barrett

The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast

Colin is joined by speaker, coach and podcaster, Andrew Barrett, about the fascinating subject of the ways in which health and safety is managed within high profile industries, and how insurance companies are helping his quest to challenge the issues being found.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Leveraging investment is all about finding the similarities between industries and employing proven solutions, allowing for less capital investment - always an attractive proposition.
• One of the greatest opportunities for relieving the burden of illness and disease is in agriculture, and yet the sector contains very few safety professionals.
• Critical controls work well in technical systems. There is, however, no evidence to suggest that critical controls work any better than other risk management approaches.
• Individual business should be looking at their businesses and examining the areas in which there are risks, and then talking to insurers about how these problems can be solved.

BEST MOMENTS

‘I say that I’m a reformed health and safety professional’

‘What we realised is that we actually have to ask better questions’

‘Don’t take my word for it that it’s good - treat it as a hypothesis’

‘I’m a connector of the different parts of the system and experts in order to try and answer those questions'

VALUABLE RESOURCES

The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449

Safety On Tap - https://www.safetyontap.com

Andrew Barrett LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-barrett-58a1071b/?originalSubdomain=au

ABOUT THE HOST

Colin Nottage

‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’

This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.

He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.

Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.

Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.

He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).