Understanding How we do Things Around Here

Welcome to the Interesting Health & Safety Podcast! In todays episode, Colin discusses the how you manage risk in your business? Colin suggests the businesses that are truly successful, are the businesses that understand and control the risks within their businesses and if you can get a great understanding of these two things, you will also be successful! Colin also states that you should leverage the experiences, skills and inside knowledge of your employees when looking at Health and Safety within you business. Colins Challenge; "How well do you understand how things are done 'well' in your business? Do you really get what goes on in your business; how people manage their day-to-day activities?" Colin wants you to have a think about this, spend more time focussing on it and speaking to those who are doing the tasks at hand (looking for the good, learning from it and implementing it) HOST BIO  ‘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).