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Safety on Tap
by Andrew Barrett | Coach | Organisational Learning Enabler
The Safety on Tap podcast is for leaders (yes, that's you!) wanting to grow themselves and drastically improve health and safety along the way. We bring you free-flowing ideas, perspectives and stories from interviews with only the most interesting people - to help you take positive, effective and rewarding action. Nice!
Episodes
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Ep222: Are we doing enough? H&S governance gets new high-quality guidance, with Chris Jones & Craig Marriott
Are we doing enough? Is the fundamental question of H&S governance. And the answer, it seems at least in New Zealand, is largely not one given with confidence. And beyond NZ, the answer sometimes seems vague, unclear, or uncertain. Governance arguably is the lynchpin around which all health and...
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Ep221: Get outside your lane, with Gareth Lock
Full show notes: www.safetyontap.com/ep221 This is a conversation about a really important mission to improve health and safety. It's also about extreme difficulty, persistence, and how being professional might actually mean straying far outside your one specific professional domain. Hey, it's...
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Ep220: What you are missing from new beginnings, with Andrew Barrett
Full show notes: www.safetyontap.com/ep220 The piece you might be missing as you try to build new things and all your efforts for making change, might actually be deliberately blowing things up. Hey, it's Andrew, and this is Safety on Tap. Since you're listening in, you must be a leader wanting…
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Ep219: Aligned goals, broader approach - Organisational psychology, with Diya Dey
Full show notes: www.safetyontap.com/ep219 Have you ever had an idea, or heard an idea, thinking it was brilliant, only to realise that the idea is not that new, and didn't come from where you thought it did? Welcome to the discipline of organisational psychology. Hey, it's Andrew, and this is...
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Ep218: An answer for everything with Andrew Barrett
Full show notes: www.safetyontap.com/ep218 You seem to have answers for everything, he said to me. He was 100% right and 100% wrong at the same time. This is a podcast about how that can be, and how you can engage with better answers. Hey, it's Andrew, and this is Safety on Tap. Since you're...
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Ep217: Some nuances to safety professional practice with Tim Lie
Full show notes: www.safetyontap.com/ep217 What does it sound like, to have permission to not focus on certain things in health and safety? What one concept are we missing from risk management that makes a massive difference? Hey, it's Andrew, and this is Safety on Tap. Since you're listening in,...
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Ep216 Resonance and understanding, with Andrew Barrett
Full show notes: www.safetyontap.com/ep216 Radio, television, and the content we consume have changed enormously since I was a kid. This is a podcast about the physics, and the metaphor of this change and how we can change too, but only if we want to remain resonant. Hey, it's Andrew, and this is...
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Ep215: The intersection of systems innovation, creative design & systems thinking, with Satyan Chari
Full show notes: www.safetyontap.com/ep215 Are the ideas of science at odds with a humanist approach? Can we solve all the big problems with big data and analytics? Can you really succeed with tools and practices and not understand the philosophy behind them? Hey, it's Andrew, and this is Safety…
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Ep214: Making 2024 Your Best Year Yet
Full show notes: www.safetyontap.com/ep214 Two quick questions for you: first, did you get what you got in 2023 by design, or did your year kind of happen to you by accident? Second question, what's going to change for you in 2024? I have gifts for you inside, keep listening! Hey, it's Andrew…
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Ep213: Human Factors, Error, Blame & Systems Thinking, with A/Prof Gemma Read
We are now realising that just focussing on preventing bad stuff is a pretty limited view of health and safety, and that many of our approaches are limited in the application and the quality of their outputs. So how would we broaden out focus to study and improve normal work? It turns out there…
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Ep212: Three ways of getting things done, with Andrew Barrett
Full show notes: www.safetyontap.com/ep212 Hey, it's Andrew, and this is Safety on Tap. If we want to improve our performance in ANY area of our life, work or otherwise, there are ONLY three ways to do it, three kinds of how before we decide what to do. For most of us, the decisions we make every...
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Ep211: Disagree better, with Andrew Barrett
Full show notes: www.safetyontap.com/ep211 I don't agree. And here's why. We should hear this a lot more in health and safety practice. The need to say these words, and the way it sounds when we say it, is more important to our effectiveness than you can imagine. Hey, it's Andrew, and this is...
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Ep210: Health and safety probably is a wicked problem, with Craig Ashhurst
Full show notes: www.safetyontap.com/ep209 I have some questions for you. As you hear these, just nod your head or shake it if you agree or disagree. Does it ever feel like you can't give a good clear definition of what health and safety is? That the work is never ending? That it's tricky to...
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Ep209: Meet them where they are at with Andrew Barrett
Full show notes: www.safetyontap.com/ep209 We are in the business of change. But we aren't always great at it. This is a podcast about babies and blindness, carrots and elephants, and the necessary tension between where we want to go, and where we are right now. I don't think we will ever be able...
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EP208: Is your professional practice unethical? with Simon Cassin
Ep208: Is your professional practice unethical? Full show notes: safetyontap.com/ep208 Is your professional practice unethical? Hey, it's Andrew, and this is Safety on Tap. Since you're listening in, you must be a leader wanting to grow yourself and drastically improve health and safety along the...
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Ep207: On the Hook & The Cost of Free with Andrew Barrett
Ep207: On the Hook & the Cost of Free, with Andrew Barrett Full show notes: www.safetyontap.com/ep207 Today, you can access the entire collection of information used to create university-level health and safety programs, for free. Today, you could sign-up for an MBA, and in a year from now have…
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Ep206: Change and Change Managers, with Gilbert Kruidenier
Ep206: Change and Change Managers, with Gilbert Kruidenier Full Show Notes: https://safetyontap.com/ep206 Change! It's the only thing that stays the same in health and safety. Today's guest is a professional change manager, though the label doesn't entirely capture what he does and how he does…
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Ep205: Platinum, Covid, and how ideas spread, with Andrew Barrett
Ep205: Platinum, Covid, and how ideas spread, with Andrew Barrett Full Show Notes: https://safetyontap.com/ep205 I noticed when they started saying 'Welcome back Mr Barrett' when I boarded the plane. But I really took notice, when they stopped saying it. This is a podcast about ideas, and…
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Ep204: 99% = 0%, with Andrew Barrett
Sometimes, 99% is as good as 0%. And it's really quite useful to know when that's the case. Hey, it's Andrew, and this is Safety on Tap. Since you're listening in, you must be a leader wanting to grow yourself and drastically improve health and safety along the way. Welcome to you, you're in the...
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Ep203: Stop talking about health and safety, with Rob Kirkwood
> Why on earth would you remove the words health and safety, in order to improve health and safety? Hey, it's Andrew, and this is Safety on Tap. Since you're listening in, you must be a leader wanting to grow yourself and drastically improve health and safety along the way. Welcome to you, you're...
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Ep202 When You're Gone, with Andrew Barrett
> I've taken a bit of a break from creating new podcast episodes, and as I come back to you with this episode, I started reflecting on what happens when you're gone. Hey, it's Andrew, and this is Safety on Tap. Since you're listening in, you must be a leader wanting to grow yourself and…
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Ep201 Ron Gantt
"Being in search of a beautiful question can lead to a new sense of purpose and direction. A beautiful question is one that challenges assumptions, considers new possibilities, and serves as a catalyst for action and change. Crafting and engaging with such beautiful questions is like an art. Like...
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Ep200: Live Listener Event
Hey it's Andrew, and this is Safety on Tap! On the 13th of May 2022 I had the extraordinary experience of spending a few hours in a virtual event with Safety on Tap listeners from around the world to celebrate 200 episodes of the Safety on Tap podcast. This is a podcast, but its more than that,...
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Ep199-5: Half an episode and my gift to you for our 200th
his is a cheeky episode, halfway between episode 199 and episode 200, with two really short messages for you - an invitation and a request. First, I want you to be a part of episode 200! In exactly the same way that phones are only as good as having people to talk to, a team is only a team…
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Ep199 All Your Finance Needs (not), with Andrew Barrett
I know her personally, we were part of a business group a few years ago. Having gotten far more focussed and proactive with my overall financial goals and position in recent years, I asked this Financial Planner to come over and help us plan our finances. We prepared a lot, laid it all out -...
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Ep198: Thinking and rethinking work, people, and mental health, with Antony Malmo
My guest today is Antony Malmo. Antony is a self described Wellbeing Smuggler, Jargon Cutter, Systems Wrangler, and C-suite Whisperer. He's a director at Allos Australia, an organisation that approaches workplace mental health systemically; from EAP support and Psych Health and Safety, to...
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Ep197 Mental Models
So what's the beliefs, assumptions, and images we have that make sense of our thoughts and behaviour here? Is it that war is bad? That military aggression is unacceptable? Maybe, but it doesn't explain our blindness to so many other things equally as objectionable and far more prolonged. No, we...
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Ep196: EBM or Solutioneering? With Prof Rob Briner
What if you could better guide your organisation on what's most important, and be more confident about the results you can deliver? That's what today's guest is asking of all of us, assuming that's the kind of professional we want to be. My guest today is Professor Rob Briner, and he has had a…
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Ep195 Tune-in to feedback, with Andrew Barrett
What words do you know people use to describe you, or your team? Not words you'd like them to say, but words they have actually said and you've heard directly or second hand?
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Ep194 You must be in defence of.....with Andrew Barrett
Gandhi did it with walking and without food. Michael Pollan did it with food and a book. Al Gore did it with a film. Dave Grohl did it with Youtube in 2020, and Dave Provan did it with words in 2018. Each of them, in defence of something important. And so must you. The word defence usually…
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Ep193 Large-scale Safety II in practice @ American Airlines, with Bog Glavan & Nick Peterson
There is an enormous amount of talk about new safety approaches, in theory, compared to implementation in practice. But implementation does exist, it does show promise, and it can be done at scale. My guests today are First Officer Bogomir Glavan and First Officer Nicholas Peterson from American...
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Ep192 The purpose of strategy
All forward-thinking leaders are interested in strategy. But what, exactly, is the purpose of strategy? This is the first podcast out for 2022 so for new-release listeners, happy new year! This year I'm getting far more focussed and intentional to bring you insights from the coaching work I do…
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Ep191 Being salesy, with Andrew Barrett
Let's talk about Linkedin, humanity, and being salesy. I am connected with tens of thousands of people, in some direct way. Whether that's someone who was seen me speak, been in a workshop, listened to my podcast, or connected on social media. All of those are one-degree of separation, there is a...
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Ep190: How to reshape your safety metrics & ditch the broken ones, with Dr Tristan Casey
Jerry Muller wrote a phenomenal book called the Tyranny of Metrics, which he opens by saying "the title is not meant to convey the message that metrics are intrinsically tyrannical, but rather that they are frequently used in ways that are dysfunctional and oppressive". And that, by friends, is a...
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Ep189 How to improve engagement, with Andrew Barrett
"Help me get people engaged". "No one is engaged with health and safety". "Engagement around here is pretty low". Requests like this and their variations are some of the most common things people come to me for help with. Health and safety have an engagement problem, but it's not limited to that....
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Ep188: An org-wide case study moving to Safety II, with Kym Bancroft.
Kym Bancroft is an organisational psychologist turned health and safety executive, who was the head of Health and Safety at Urban Utilities. Urban Utilities is a water and sewage utility supplying 1.4 million people with clean water and flushing toilets in South-East Queensland in Australia. With...
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Ep187: Go Disrupt Yourself (live from Safeguard 2019), with Andrew Barrett
This is my live keynote speech delivered at the Safeguard 2019 Conference. The theme of the conference was Dare to Disrupt. That was an idea which I respectfully disagreed with and explained why in the opening keynote when I encouraged the audience, and you, to go disrupt yourself.
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Ep186: If kids can, So can you: Innovation and Entrepreneurialism in Practice, with Liz Jackson, Global Capabilities Lead, Sydney Catholic Schools.
I don't think this interview needs much introduction, except to say one thing: if you are inclined to turn off because the words innovation or entrepreneurialism seem too fluffy or not relevant to you, stick with this: you'll be surprised like I was. Here's today's guest, Liz Jackson:
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Ep185 Props for the performance, with Andrew Barrett
I, like you, have been spending a lot of time in the same workplace for a while now, my home office. And yet despite the amount of time I spend here, it was only recently that something struck me when I saw things that had been there the whole time but hadn't recognised for what they are. My…
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Ep184: Behavioural economics, nudge, sludge, and more, with Rory Gallagher, Managing Director, The Behavioural Insights Team
Rory Gallagher is the Asia Pacific Director of the Behavioural Insights Team, and a founding member of it's parent organisation within the British Government. This work as always fascinated me, ever since I read the book Nudge, based on Nobel Prize winning work by Cass Sunstein and Richard…
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Ep183: Made Visible, with Andrew Barrett
It's hard to focus on things that we can't see, that aren't visible to us. It doesn't mean they aren't there, it's just that they aren't visible to us. Having empathy for others, and appreciating that they have a perspective and experience which is 100% valid for them, can be a difficult thing to...
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Ep182: ISO standards and new views of safety: slaying different kinds of sacred cows, with Jeremy Scrivens
What's the risk when we use an ISO standard approach to health and safety? That we miss the point entirely. Decades of experience have revealed what happens when standards compliance and its activities become the goal, instead of the goals of actual health and actual safety the ISO standard was...
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Ep181 Tried it before, didn't work. With Andrew Barrett
"Tried it before, and it didn't work" These are the words that we have all said to dismiss something out of hand, to reject a very broad or general idea or approach or suggestion . We can choose our words better, which means everyone learns more and is more informed about our experience.
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Ep180: Listener Reflections: Brenton Harrison on unhelpful extremes
Brenton Harrison shared some thoughts publicly about the extremes of new views and traditional views of safety. Here's Brenton sharing his thoughts with you.
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Ep179 What I learned after rejecting philosophy, with Andrew Barrett
Does philosophy really have a place in work health and safety? Here's what I discovered. My earlier rejection of philosophy taught me how important philosophy actually is a conscious way of living and a competent approach to professional practice. I might be wrong, but one thing philosophy does...
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Ep178: An integral perspective on leadership, with Jo Doyle
My guest today is the ever-humble Jo Doyle. Jo comes highly recommended to me, she has been on my potential guest list for years now. With many years experience in strategic organisational change and executive coaching, Covid created the impetus for Jo to gravitate back to her sweet spot and...
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Ep177 Cook or chef? with Andrew Barrett
Am I a cook or a chef? It turns out that has nothing to do with what I wear, or whether I have a certificate, it comes down to one simple thing. And no, it's not a bad temper.
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Ep176: The human performance perspective of improvement, with Diane Chadwick-Jones
Human performance is not just focussed on humans. It is about how we try to improve ourselves at work. It's not just about health and safety. My guest today Diane Chadwick-Jones is the former Director, Human Performance for BP. She had an extensive career in BP, working in Belgium, Brazil and…
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Ep175 Perfect is the enemy of done, with Andrew Barrett
Three times this week, I have come across this challenge in health and safety leaders. Competent, intelligent, motivated health and safety leaders who want to make change. Who hold back, are held back, from taking the next step, making the next intention a reality, for the same reason. The words...
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Ep174: The best form of risk assessment is your voice, with Steve Harvey
Listen in to hear how one of the thickest Scottish accents you'll ever hear is also one of the most effective communicators. Steve Harvey is a an operations-focused Health & Safety professional who is a proud pragmatist. He is a master of work insights and operational learning, obsessed about...
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The Safety on Tap podcast is for leaders (yes, that's you!) wanting to grow themselves and drastically improve health and safety along the way. We bring you free-flowing ideas, perspectives and stories from interviews with only the most interesting people - to help you take positive, effective and rewarding action. Nice!
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Andrew Barrett | Coach | Organisational Learning Enabler
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