State Of Safety Report 2022

Today's Guest: Today, I'm sharing a webinar recording where I discuss the current state of safety and how it has changed since 2008. Over 300 safety leaders answered our survey explaining their priorities, aspirations, worries, costs and blockers around health and safety.     You'll learn: ✅ What's most important for health and safety professionals. ✅ What prevents health and safety professionals from reaching their goals. ✅ What health and safety professionals' biggest concerns are. ✅ The difference between slips and trips and the dangers of bundling slips, trips and falls together. ✅ How risk relevance has changed since 2008. ✅ How we need to change our approach to slips, trips and falls. Resources: The State Of Safety 2022 Report: https://www.linkedin.com/smart-links/AQElOawhMEFkNw Slip Safety Scorecard: https://scorecard.slipsafety.co.uk/ In this episode, we talk about: [2:58] What our state of safety survey involved. [04:55] Our plan to carry out an annual safety survey report. [05:21] The results from our survey of what is most important for health and safety professionals. [07:02] What prevents health and safety professionals from reaching their goals. [09:33] What health and safety professionals' biggest concerns are. [12:14] Which risks are common across all organisations. [13:19] The difference between slips and trips and the dangers of bundling slips, trips and falls together. [15:26] How risk relevance has changed since 2008. [17:24] Causes of incidents that result in costs. [18:10] How health and safety risks, causes and priorities differ from each other. [21:40] How health and safety leaders want to learn about health and safety topics. [23:24] The risk of slips and how common slip incidents are. [25:00] What stops health and safety professionals reducing the risk of slips. [28:05] What prompts health and safety professionals to do more about slip risk. [29:21] How we need to change our approach to slips, trips and falls. [30:20] The acronym SLIP and why it fails to address slip risk properly. [32:30] The scientific way to reduce slip risk. [37:44] How height affects the severity of slips and trips incidents and the fines related to them. Quotables: 06:42 - "Having certainty that risks are under control is really important. So that's certainly something worth thinking about, in terms of what can you do, what can you systemise, what can you achieve in terms of partnerships with suppliers, what can you work on internally to get you that certainty?" 26:39 - "My question to the industry is if we are seeing this very consistent picture that we've got a problem here and it's our biggest cause of problem, and we're saying ourselves that it's our biggest risk of exposure, why do we think, a full two-thirds of us, that's there's not really much more we can do?" #safety #insurance #riskmanagement #StateOfSafety #podcast