Hatchling Turtles, Monitor Lizards, and the World's Wildest Safety Job With Safety Expert Desai Link

An osprey drops a baby turtle from the sky. It hits a worker in the head. Welcome to Barrow Island.Desai Link — NZ-based health and safety leader and author of "Beyond the Incident" — opens with the wildest stories from a career he never planned: Class A nature reserves in Western Australia, 8-foot monitor lizards that don't fear humans, and the day-to-day reality of an H&S role no one teaches you about.In this 10-minute conversation, Desai shares:• 8.5 years in H&S — and the expansion into risk and privacy• What an H&S manager actually does: compliance, engagement, influence, advisory• Barrow Island Class A nature reserve and the osprey-turtle incident• 2.5-meter monitor lizards strolling between trucks with zero fear• Why "influence" matters more than authority in the safety world• The book that translates 400 years of legal precedent into safety practice—Four Fs Podcast: 10-Minute Wins delivers a daily short clip from in-depth conversations with founders, veterans, executives, and world-class experts you won't hear on every other show — on leadership, entrepreneurship, failure, and personal reinvention.Full episodes available on the Four Fs Podcast feed on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube.