Collaboration And Long Term Thinking Are The Way Forward - with Teresa Swinton

This week, Colin talks to Teresa Swinton, founder of Paradigm Human Performance, about the importance of long-term thinking, how to better approach the practice of risk profiling, and why collaboration between departments should be normalised in order to better effect safety for all.  KEY TAKEAWAYS It's vital that businesses play the long game, instead of only focussing upon short term gains. Longevity is the key to success. Risk profiling helps us to much better understand and ascertain the needs of our business. We must undertake this with diligence and insight. Business must learn to break out of their silo behaviour. Different departments need to better communicate and cooperate with each other if we wish the business to run as a more effective whole. It is regrettable the that spotlight is only really shone upon safety departments when an accident occurs. Safety should be a perennial, never-ending conversation. BEST MOMENTS 'There should be longer term approaches taken' 'We don't apply the same standards to health and safety management' Fixing the worker is the easy option' 'It's looking for the clues which will help you to see what's going to go wrong next'  VALUABLE RESOURCES The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449         Teresa Swinton LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tswintonphp?originalSubdomain=uk Paradigm - https://www.paradigmhp.com/blog/ 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).