Safety on Tap
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Ep222: Are we doing enough? H&S governance gets new high-quality guidance, with Chris Jones & Craig Marriott
31 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are we doing enough? Is the fundamental question of H&S governance. And the answer, it seems at least in New Zealand, is largely not one given with c...
Ep221: Get outside your lane, with Gareth Lock
30 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Full show notes: www.safetyontap.com/ep221 This is a conversation about a really important mission to improve health and safety. It's also about extr...
Ep220: What you are missing from new beginnings, with Andrew Barrett
20 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Full show notes: www.safetyontap.com/ep220 The piece you might be missing as you try to build new things and all your efforts for making change, might...
Ep219: Aligned goals, broader approach - Organisational psychology, with Diya Dey
16 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Full show notes: www.safetyontap.com/ep219 Have you ever had an idea, or heard an idea, thinking it was brilliant, only to realise that the idea is no...
Ep218: An answer for everything with Andrew Barrett
18 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Full show notes: www.safetyontap.com/ep218 You seem to have answers for everything, he said to me. He was 100% right and 100% wrong at the same time...
Ep217: Some nuances to safety professional practice with Tim Lie
14 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 c...
Ep216 Resonance and understanding, with Andrew Barrett
04 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Full show notes: www.safetyontap.com/ep216 Radio, television, and the content we consume have changed enormously since I was a kid. This is a podcast ...
Ep215: The intersection of systems innovation, creative design & systems thinking, with Satyan Chari
08 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Full show notes: www.safetyontap.com/ep215 Are the ideas of science at odds with a humanist approach? Can we solve all the big problems with big da...
Ep214: Making 2024 Your Best Year Yet
15 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Full show notes: www.safetyontap.com/ep214 Two quick questions for you: first, did you get what you got in 2023 by design, or did your year kind of ha...
Ep213: Human Factors, Error, Blame & Systems Thinking, with A/Prof Gemma Read
08 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We are now realising that just focussing on preventing bad stuff is a pretty limited view of health and safety, and that many of our approaches are li...
Ep212: Three ways of getting things done, with Andrew Barrett
27 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Full show notes: www.safetyontap.com/ep212 Hey, it's Andrew, and this is Safety on Tap. If we want to improve our performance in ANY area of our li...
Ep211: Disagree better, with Andrew Barrett
16 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Full show notes: www.safetyontap.com/ep211 I don't agree. And here's why. We should hear this a lot more in health and safety practice. The need...
Ep210: Health and safety probably is a wicked problem, with Craig Ashhurst
04 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Full show notes: www.safetyontap.com/ep209 I have some questions for you. As you hear these, just nod your head or shake it if you agree or disagree...
Ep209: Meet them where they are at with Andrew Barrett
22 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Full show notes: www.safetyontap.com/ep209 We are in the business of change. But we aren't always great at it. This is a podcast about babies and ...
EP208: Is your professional practice unethical? with Simon Cassin
18 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ep208: Is your professional practice unethical? Full show notes: safetyontap.com/ep208 Is your professional practice unethical? Hey, it's Andrew...
Ep207: On the Hook & The Cost of Free with Andrew Barrett
07 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ep207: On the Hook & the Cost of Free, with Andrew Barrett Full show notes: www.safetyontap.com/ep207 Today, you can access the entire collection o...
Ep206: Change and Change Managers, with Gilbert Kruidenier
31 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ep206: Change and Change Managers, with Gilbert Kruidenier Full Show Notes: https://safetyontap.com/ep206 Change! It's the only thing that stays t...
Ep205: Platinum, Covid, and how ideas spread, with Andrew Barrett
24 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ep205: Platinum, Covid, and how ideas spread, with Andrew Barrett Full Show Notes: https://safetyontap.com/ep205 I noticed when they started saying...
Ep204: 99% = 0%, with Andrew Barrett
01 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes, 99% is as good as 0%. And it's really quite useful to know when that's the case. Hey, it's Andrew, and this is Safety on Tap. Si...
Ep203: Stop talking about health and safety, with Rob Kirkwood
30 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why on earth would you remove the words health and safety, in order to improve health and safety? Hey, it's Andrew, and this is Safety on Tap. ...
Ep202 When You're Gone, with Andrew Barrett
10 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I've taken a bit of a break from creating new podcast episodes, and as I come back to you with this episode, I started reflecting on what happens whe...
Ep201 Ron Gantt
16 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"Being in search of a beautiful question can lead to a new sense of purpose and direction. A beautiful question is one that challenges assumption...
Ep200: Live Listener Event
08 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hey it's Andrew, and this is Safety on Tap! On the 13th of May 2022 I had the extraordinary experience of spending a few hours in a virtual event with...
Ep199-5: Half an episode and my gift to you for our 200th
06 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
his is a cheeky episode, halfway between episode 199 and episode 200, with two really short messages for you - an invitation and a request. First...
Ep199 All Your Finance Needs (not), with Andrew Barrett
20 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
I know her personally, we were part of a business group a few years ago. Having gotten far more focussed and proactive with my overall financial goals...
Ep198: Thinking and rethinking work, people, and mental health, with Antony Malmo
12 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Antony Malmo. Antony is a self described Wellbeing Smuggler, Jargon Cutter, Systems Wrangler, and C-suite Whisperer. He's a dir...
Ep197 Mental Models
31 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
So what's the beliefs, assumptions, and images we have that make sense of our thoughts and behaviour here? Is it that war is bad? That military aggres...
Ep196: EBM or Solutioneering? With Prof Rob Briner
23 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What if you could better guide your organisation on what's most important, and be more confident about the results you can deliver? That's what today'...
Ep195 Tune-in to feedback, with Andrew Barrett
25 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What words do you know people use to describe you, or your team? Not words you'd like them to say, but words they have actually said and you've heard ...
Ep194 You must be in defence of.....with Andrew Barrett
17 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Gandhi did it with walking and without food. Michael Pollan did it with food and a book. Al Gore did it with a film. Dave Grohl did it with Yout...
Ep193 Large-scale Safety II in practice @ American Airlines, with Bog Glavan & Nick Peterson
14 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There is an enormous amount of talk about new safety approaches, in theory, compared to implementation in practice. But implementation does exist, i...
Ep192 The purpose of strategy
27 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
All forward-thinking leaders are interested in strategy. But what, exactly, is the purpose of strategy? This is the first podcast out for 2022 so fo...
Ep191 Being salesy, with Andrew Barrett
15 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Let's talk about Linkedin, humanity, and being salesy. I am connected with tens of thousands of people, in some direct way. Whether that's someone...
Ep190: How to reshape your safety metrics & ditch the broken ones, with Dr Tristan Casey
12 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jerry Muller wrote a phenomenal book called the Tyranny of Metrics, which he opens by saying "the title is not meant to convey the message that metric...
Ep189 How to improve engagement, with Andrew Barrett
02 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Help me get people engaged". "No one is engaged with health and safety". "Engagement around here is pretty low". Requests like this and their v...
Ep188: An org-wide case study moving to Safety II, with Kym Bancroft.
07 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Kym Bancroft is an organisational psychologist turned health and safety executive, who was the head of Health and Safety at Urban Utilities. Urban U...
Ep187: Go Disrupt Yourself (live from Safeguard 2019), with Andrew Barrett
30 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is my live keynote speech delivered at the Safeguard 2019 Conference. The theme of the conference was Dare to Disrupt. That was an idea which...
Ep186: If kids can, So can you: Innovation and Entrepreneurialism in Practice, with Liz Jackson, Global Capabilities Lead, Sydney Catholic Schools.
22 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
I don't think this interview needs much introduction, except to say one thing: if you are inclined to turn off because the words innovation or entrepr...
Ep185 Props for the performance, with Andrew Barrett
10 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
I, like you, have been spending a lot of time in the same workplace for a while now, my home office. And yet despite the amount of time I spend here...
Ep184: Behavioural economics, nudge, sludge, and more, with Rory Gallagher, Managing Director, The Behavioural Insights Team
06 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Rory Gallagher is the Asia Pacific Director of the Behavioural Insights Team, and a founding member of it's parent organisation within the British Gov...
Ep183: Made Visible, with Andrew Barrett
25 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It's hard to focus on things that we can't see, that aren't visible to us. It doesn't mean they aren't there, it's just that they aren't visible to ...
Ep182: ISO standards and new views of safety: slaying different kinds of sacred cows, with Jeremy Scrivens
18 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What's the risk when we use an ISO standard approach to health and safety? That we miss the point entirely. Decades of experience have revealed what...
Ep181 Tried it before, didn't work. With Andrew Barrett
04 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Tried it before, and it didn't work" These are the words that we have all said to dismiss something out of hand, to reject a very broad or general ...
Ep180: Listener Reflections: Brenton Harrison on unhelpful extremes
08 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Brenton Harrison shared some thoughts publicly about the extremes of new views and traditional views of safety. Here's Brenton sharing his thoughts wi...
Ep179 What I learned after rejecting philosophy, with Andrew Barrett
29 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Does philosophy really have a place in work health and safety? Here's what I discovered. My earlier rejection of philosophy taught me how important...
Ep178: An integral perspective on leadership, with Jo Doyle
09 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is the ever-humble Jo Doyle. Jo comes highly recommended to me, she has been on my potential guest list for years now. With many ye...
Ep177 Cook or chef? with Andrew Barrett
20 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Am I a cook or a chef? It turns out that has nothing to do with what I wear, or whether I have a certificate, it comes down to one simple thing. And...
Ep176: The human performance perspective of improvement, with Diane Chadwick-Jones
31 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Human performance is not just focussed on humans. It is about how we try to improve ourselves at work. It's not just about health and safety. My guest...
Ep175 Perfect is the enemy of done, with Andrew Barrett
22 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Three times this week, I have come across this challenge in health and safety leaders. Competent, intelligent, motivated health and safety leader...
Ep174: The best form of risk assessment is your voice, with Steve Harvey
19 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Listen in to hear how one of the thickest Scottish accents you'll ever hear is also one of the most effective communicators. Steve Harvey is a an ...
Ep173: The wizard or the wand? with Andrew Barrett
12 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What does a iPad, a 2B pencil, WISYWIG, and a microphone have in common? And how is that helpful for you as a leader? This episode is made possible by...
Ep172: Psych health and safety in the spotlight, with Jason van Schie
09 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today I'm chatting with Jason van Schie, organisation psychologist, founder of FlourishDX and co-host of the Psych Health and Safety podcast. I'm no...
Ep 171: What learning looks & sounds like everyday, with Tim Fitch
04 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is an awesome conversation. Real stories and experiences from a frontline HSE professional who is still learning with more than a decade's wort...
Ep 170 Grenade Throwers, with Andrew Barrett
26 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Grenade throwers. You know them. (Real people, with metaphorical grenades) The people in your organisation who have a tendency, even a reputa...
Ep169 The single purpose of anything new, with Andrew Barrett
26 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The purpose of introducing anything new is NOT to have it perfect first time. In fact, the results you get might not even be great, just average, no...
Ep168 Mental Health Strategy, with David Burroughs
19 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mental health is important enough to need a strategic approach, not just tactics. In this wide ranging conversation, David Burroughs and I explore h...
Ep167: What could we learn from 1000? with Andrew Barrett
09 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
I am setting a goal to enable people like you to plan and implement 1000 learning teams in organisations just like yours, and this is your invitation ...
Ep166 Will 2021 be any different? With Andrew Barrett
19 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode was difficult to create. What can we take from a year like 2020? What hope do we have for 2021? It turns out that the question becomes ...
Ep165: True but Useless, with Andrew Barrett
17 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean if something is True But Useless at the same time? It happens more often than you think. This one started because I thought, would...
Ep164: Fail, with Andrew Barrett
14 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Here at Safety on Tap we're starting a new learning teams implementation case study group soon, and I'm looking for five people to join. If you hav...
Ep163: The fine print, with Andrew Barrett
03 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In my first ever internal safety role, I was shocked to discover in my performance review that my results were tied to the injury statistics of the bu...
Ep162: Language is central to your change efforts, with Adam Johns
26 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
There are conversations I bring you on the podcast which have a specific focus, topic or slant. There are others, which are simply conversations tha...
Ep161: Maslow's Hammer & Too Many Nails, with Andrew Barrett
18 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
I've shared with you before some of the most impactful lessons I've learned in my life, which have come from my parents. That's from episode 119, call...
Ep160: Ctrl+C, Ctrl+Alt+V+E, with Andrew Barrett
04 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Fellow nerds (or maybe just fellow spreadsheet aficionados), did you recognise what each of the keyboard shortcuts are in the title of this episode? C...
Ep159 : There is an elephant in my office, with Andrew Barrett
30 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
There is an elephant in my office. Its been there for ages, thought its only in the past few years that I've actually seen it. You have one, maybe...
Ep158: Coaching Call - Safety convos beyond the frontline, with Peter
02 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Regular listeners will know me for passionately spruiking and putting into practice a few key concepts. Today you'll hear my conversation with Peter...
Ep157: How Appreciative Inquiry might fit into your professional toolkit, with Amanda Clements
14 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
AmThere is lots of talk about AI. As in, artificial intelligence. Tech is all the rage, and we are interfacing more and more directly with artificial ...
Ep156 Construct the unknowable, with Andrew Barrett
04 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This is a short episode on a big P - a principle to help you improve. It's a journey, a tension, between trying to know the world, and constructing ...
Ep155: Mental health & mental illness, related but different, with Traci Carse
31 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is the inimitable and supremely articulate Traci Carse. Traci is the Occupational Psychologist at Fire and Rescue NSW, one of the wor...
Ep154: Five next steps, with Andrew Barrett
19 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
One of the worst things to do whilst you are crossing the street in downtown Ho Chi Minh City, amongst the cars and mostly motorbikes and tuk-tuks scr...
Ep153: Insights from the research about resilience, with Kathryn McEwan
14 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is Kathryn McEwan an organisational psychologist, executive coach and mediator with more than 30 years consulting experience across all ...
Ep152 Anchors up, anchors away! With Andrew Barrett
07 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This anchor concept is really important to understand and utilise when improving learning is your goal. Change isn't just about engines, it's about wh...
Ep151: Turning health & safety into a service function, with Kersty Christensen
31 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest recently shared a photo of her lying in the middle of one of the busiest commercial airport runways in Australia. Whilst no planes were...
Ep150: Rethinking redundancy, with Andrew Barrett
24 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Redundancy is a word quite familiar to health and safety people, we use it in good times, and we fear it in bad times. And I think we always have th...
Ep149: Knowing, seeing and leading through paradoxes, with Dr Tristan Casey
15 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today I'm chatting with Dr. Tristan Casey. He has an interest in teamwork, leadership, and organizational culture. Tristan teaches into the Graduate C...
Ep148: Here is your ribbon, with Andrew Barrett
06 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
I was asked to be a judge of these awards. I declined. Later on was asked to help present the Young Safety Professional of the Year award, by way ...
Ep147: I don't know, with Andrew Barrett
21 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As professionals, as subject matter experts, we think we are in the business of knowing. This is one of the greatest traps we can fall into, and it ...
Ep146: Two learning adventures amidst a crisis, with Ron Gantt
09 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
I talk a lot about learning because it's the key to performance improvement for all of us. Today, the previous guest Ron Gantt and I compare and con...
Ep145 Sawubona (I see you), with Andrew Barrett
20 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The past few months have been hard, for everyone. Like it or not, we leaders who are working on improving health and safety, are inevitably closer to ...
Ep144: A public health perspective to boost our effectiveness, with Steffan Cavil-Fowler
30 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Many of us would have heard a saying like "health and safety professionals have a little hand a big S". If this is true for you as it is for me, then ...
Ep144: A public health perspective to boost our effectiveness, with Steffan Cavil-Fowler
30 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Many of us would have heard a saying like "health and safety professionals have a little hand a big S". If this is true for you as it is for me, then ...
Ep143: Leveraging human potential, and making work awesome, with Ian Borges, Co-Founder, Semco Style Institute
17 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What if we spent more time improving work, would health and safety also improve as a result? What if we did that using many of the principles built in...
Ep142: Developing adaptive capacity and building resilience, with Dr David Provan
03 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
I went out three weeks into the real craziness of the coronavirus. I have collected hundreds and hundreds of data points from people like you giving m...
Ep T1 - The Togetherness Series
27 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
I am planning to still bring you regular podcasts. But we can't ignore what's going on in these coronavirus times. To distinguish these podcasts f...
Ep140: The safety concierge, with Cameron Stevens
24 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest brings so much learning to you today. A safety concierge, a career with laser-focused intent, not fitting into a box, and understanding ...
Ep141: Togetherness, with Andrew Barrett
17 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
I usually try to make episodes that are as timeless as possible, in as much as you might listen the day it comes out, or a year or two later. Today's ...
Ep139 I don't want your business card, with Andrew Barrett
04 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Five times in the past week, I have had business card ceremonies. You know those moments, not very long, a second or two, the cultural practice r...
Ep138: Lessons on Safety II in practice, from Erik Hollnagel
21 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Many of you will know Professor Erik Hollnagel. Erik said he doesn't like long introductions, so I'll do it in the intro here before the actual interv...
Ep137: Big trends, opportunities & tips to be more effective, with Kobi Simmat, CEO at Best Practice
14 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we're continuing our recent theme of looking at the future. Previous guest and friend of the show Kobi Simmat, CEO at Best Practice,...
Ep136 Listener Q: Self-awareness, confidence, & clarity
10 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It's great to bring you another listener question. These kinds of podcasts are designed to help you bridge the gap between hearing and knowing somethi...
Ep135: Skills for the future, and wrestling with tension, with Sheri Greenwell
06 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Being future-ready and future-relevant means that we need different skills than what got us here. Not only that, today's guest today sees tensions bus...
Ep134: Persistence, or sunk-cost? With Andrew Barrett
27 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A sunk cost is the bias in many animals, humans and pigeons included, to continue with a course of action or commitment on the basis of costs already ...
Ep133: Learning about operational learning, with Andy White
22 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Can we learn better about our operations? What if we learned, to learn better? My guest today is Andy White, a superbly intelligent, caring, and insig...
Ep132: Action hero? With Andrew Barrett
16 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Every episode of this podcast finishes with these same words: Until next time, what's the one thing you'll do to take positive, effective or rewarding...
Ep131: Microlearning & Diversity of Thought, with Kirstine Hulse
13 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This one is a melting pot of ideas and perspectives. Learning about microlearning, learning from gifted kids, and all of this from a chemical engineer...
Ep130: Reflect, with Andrew Barrett
18 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In that sense, I am not the flower flourishing but the gardener, carefully helping prepare soil, to sow new seeds of ideas and challenge, to water and...
Ep129 : The First Date, with Andrew Barrett
12 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
For how long did you and your partner date? How long before you and your partner made some significant decisions, like meeting each other's family, go...
Ep128: A career in reflection, with Russel Skilleter
06 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Here at Safety on Tap, we spend a lot of time looking forward to new ideas, innovation, and a future-focus. But, as you know, reflecting on our ex...
Episode 127: Decluttering Health and Safety with Andrew Barrett
22 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Here is our first taste, bringing the Safety Color Concept to an entire conference room, most of whom who have never heard it before, live from the So...
Ep126: A chat with the world's #1 safety leader, Andrew Sharman, IOSH President
28 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Professor Andrew Sharman, President of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health. Many of you listening will be IOSH membe...