System Overviews and Health Checks

In this episode, Colin talks about system overviews and health checks, and how by focusing on both, we can increase the efficiency and safety of our workplace through investigation, and the three crucial ways in which you can make checks more powerful. KEY TAKEAWAYS Health checks are more effective when you get out there into the company and get a real on-the-ground feel for how things are being run. This should be done in small increments, and performed more frequently. A system overview is an investigation into procedures and systems, to see if they really do have a place in your business. You can make your business far more expedient by removing unnecessary systems. We must involve our workers when performing either of these checks. By gaining a fresh perspective, you gain new solutions. BEST MOMENTS ‘You could be implementing a really bad system really well, and that’s no good to anybody’ ‘Often they’re not done very well. Often they’re not done at all…' ‘What is the point in reviewing systems and procedures if you’re not involving the people who are doing the job?’ VALUABLE RESOURCES The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449   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).