The Global Safety Podcast
The Global Safety Podcast
The Global Safety Podcast explores how engineers and scientists are making the world a safer place. We face colossal challenges today; challenges that threaten the lives of millions of people. Each day 6,300 people die every day in workplace accidents and 420,000 people a year die from foodborne diseases. Many of these deaths are avoidable. The Global Safety Podcast investigates the biggest safe…Follow the podcast:
Where Have All The Engineers Gone?
We need a skilled workforce of engineers to meet the challenges we’ll collectively face in the coming decades as we strive towards a net zero economy. But right now, there is a problem: we don’t have enough engineers to futureproof the planet. Recent data suggests that the UK alone is several hundr…
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How To Safeguard Our Online Data
Data is shared 24hrs a day, 7 days a week – by everyone and increasingly by ‘everything’. So, in a world that is driven by data, how do we make sure that we’re safe? Mistakes can occur in even the safest systems. Machines can break down and cyber-attacks are becoming an increasing threat. And how d…
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The Future of Infrastructure
The impact of the climate crisis is evident – heatwaves, wildfires, floods and other weather events are increasing in frequency and severity… But is our infrastructure up to the job of protecting us? In this episode, Professor Danielle George explores what needs to be done to ensure our future infr…
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The Future of Safety at Sea
Professor Danielle George explores the world's most hazardous workplace - the ocean. By 2030 the oceans will provide direct employment for 40 million jobs. But those who work at sea have some of the most dangerous professions on the planet. With the help of a panel of experts, Danielle explores wha…
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The Future of Business
Professor Danielle George explores the rise of social purpose businesses and asks whether profit and social purpose can go hand in hand. She’s joined by a panel of experts who will put forward the business case as well as the moral case for an economy based on positive societal impact putting peop…
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The Future of Risk Post-Covid
Covid-19 has changed the world in many ways - crucially, it’s heightened our awareness of the unpredictability of life on this planet and the risks we face. But how much do we – the public – understand about risk? Are risks explained to us by Governments and scientists in a way that we all understa…
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The Global Safety Podcast Series 3 Trailer
We live in a world full of risks. From extreme weather events, pandemics and conflict, to workplace accidents on land and at sea, car crashes and food-borne illness, it feels like threats to our safety are everywhere. But how much do we really know about how safe we are, and how safe do we actually…
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Artificial Intelligence and Safety
Artificial Intelligence is all around us: it’s in our phones, our cars and our computers. Police departments, governments and hospitals use it, as do marketing companies, recruitment agencies, news sites and social media. The development and adoption of artificial intelligence is accelerating signi…
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Sustainable Future: Climate Change, Coastal Communities and COP 26
The impact of climate change is already being felt, causing more extreme and more frequent weather events all over the world, and particularly vulnerable are those communities living in coastal towns, cities and villages. With sea level rise inevitable and in fact already happening at an alarming r…
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Mental Wellbeing in the Workplace
We’re still in the dark about the full impact the last 18 months has had on our mental health, but the chances are that juggling home schooling with work, blurred boundaries between home and work life, isolation and loneliness and increased workload for our key workers will at some point take its t…
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