This week, Colin is in conversation with Garry Crosby, ex-Royal Air Force operative and business growth specialist, about the ways in which organisations can engender honesty, openness and trust among their workforce, and how this can benefit productivity and safety in the long run.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
BEST MOMENTS
'Everyone has a different definition of what success is'
'The better you get, the harder you have to work'
'It's narrow-sighted to look at the individual and make them the scapegoat'
'I like to see business owners reflect when things haven't gone wrong'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449
Garry Crosby LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/garrycrosby/?originalSubdomain=uk
Action Coach UK - https://actioncoach.co.uk
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).