Safety Labs by Safety Products Global is a podcast where we explore the human side of safety to support safety professionals. We move past regulations and reportables to talk about the core skills of safety leadership: empathy, influence, trust, rapport. In other words, the soft skills that help you do the hard stuff.
Safety Labs by Slice
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Safety Labs by Safety Products Global is a podcast where we explore the human side of safety to support safety professionals. We move past regulations and reportables to talk about the core skills of safety leadership: empathy, influence, trust, rapport. In other words, the soft skills that help you do the hard stuff.
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August 10, 2026
Underutilized Levers For Safety with Adam Johns
<p>In this episode, Mary Conquest speaks with Adam Johns, a risk consultant with Marsh (the global insurance broker), who brings extensive experience from aviation and rail, where he strengthened systems and cultures in safety-critical environments.</p><p><br></p><p>Are safety practitioners learning enough from other industries, or are they generally operating within their own sector’s traditional boundaries?</p><p><br></p><p>Adam explores how the profession could improve by looking beyond their own industries, including using the underutilized lever of insurance.</p><p><br></p><p>He shares many practical approaches to enhancing workplace safety, including: prioritizing the safety of work over safety work, creating just cultures, using language that encourages curiosity rather than judgement, and rethinking the measurement of safety.</p><p><br></p><p>This generous and valuable conversation even finishes with Adam sharing an underutilized gift EHS professionals could potentially access to significantly increase their ability to keep workers safe.</p><p><br></p><p>Online resources recommended by Adam:</p><p><a href="https://www.energyinst.org/whats-on/academy/topics/safety-and-risk-management">Safety and Risk Management | Energy Institute</a></p><p><br><a href="https://flightsafety.org/">Aviation Safety Experts - Flight Safety Foundation</a> </p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://www.rssb.co.uk/">RSSB</a></p><p>Books that Adam recommends:</p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Team-Teams-Rules-Engagement-Complex/dp/0241250838">Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World: Amazon.com: McChrystal, General Stanley, Silverman, David, Collins, Tantum, Fussell, Chris</a></p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Friendly-Fire-Accidental-Shootdown-Northern/dp/0691095183">Friendly Fire – The Accidental Shootdown of U.S. Black Hawks over Northern Iraq: Amazon.com: Snook, Scott A.</a></p><p>Adam Johns on LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamcjohns/">Adam Johns | LinkedIn</a></p><p><br></p><p>Safety Labs is created by Safety Products Global, the world's leading manufacturer of safety knives. Through our trusted brands, Klever, Slice and PHC, we empower companies to prevent injuries by providing safer cutting tools for every material and application. Find us at <a href="http://www.safetyproducts.global">www.safetyproducts.global</a></p><p><br></p><p>If you have any questions, please email us at <a href="mailto:safetylabs@safetyproducts.global">safetylabs@safetyproducts.global</a></p>
August 3, 2026
The Unwritten Ground Rules of Safety with Steve Simpson
<p>In this episode, Mary Conquest speaks with Steve Simpson, an international workplace culture consultant, speaker and author, who has been helping organizations understand and transform their cultures for over three decades.</p><p>Why does the profession have so much difficulty measuring and understanding safety culture? Are safety practitioners missing something??</p><p><br>Steve introduces his concept of Unwritten Ground Rules (UGRs), the things nobody talks about that actually constitute the real culture of a workplace.</p><p>He explains how they shape “the way things are done” in organizations and why these hidden beliefs and expectations can have a powerful impact on behaviors, decisions and attitudes to risk.</p><p><br>EHS professionals will learn how to uncover these powerful UGRs by using a simple technique that will also identify the key contributing attributes impacting safety culture.</p><p>This practical conversation gives listeners a new perspective on cultural learning and change that will help organizations close the gap between stated safety values and actual workplace practices.</p><p>Learn more about Steve’s work: <a href="https://steve-simpson.com/">Steve Simpson – Workplace Culture & UGRs®<br></a><br></p><p>Steve’s books:<br><a href="https://steve-simpson.com/books/">Cracking the Corporate Culture Code<br>A Culture Turned<br></a><br></p><p>And Steve also recommends:<br><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Corporate-Cultures-Rules-Rituals-Life/dp/0201102773">Corporate Cultures: The Rites And Rituals Of Corporate Life : Deal, Terrence E, Kennedy, Allan A<br></a><br></p><p>Steve Simpson on LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/workplaceculture/">Steve Simpson | LinkedIn</a></p><p><br></p><p>Safety Labs is created by Safety Products Global, the world's leading manufacturer of safety knives. Through our trusted brands, Klever, Slice and PHC, we empower companies to prevent injuries by providing safer cutting tools for every material and application. Find us at <a href="http://www.safetyproducts.global">www.safetyproducts.global</a></p><p><br></p><p>If you have any questions, please email us at <a href="mailto:safetylabs@safetyproducts.global">safetylabs@safetyproducts.global</a></p>
July 27, 2026
Proactive Safety Management with Gretchen Haskins
<p>In this episode, Mary Conquest speaks with Gretchen Haskins, an internationally recognized human factors expert and safety leader with extensive experience improving performance in aviation and other safety-critical industries.</p><p><br></p><p>Is the profession spending too much time looking backwards, managing safety reactively, and overly focusing on compliance, incidents, and corrective actions?</p><p><br></p><p>Gretchen wants safety professionals to shape strategy rather than fix issues. Drawing on her background in human factors, she explores how understanding the critical everyday tasks undertaken by workers will help identify opportunities to design the risk out of safety systems.</p><p><br></p><p>Creating a powerful context, finding a common safety purpose and building action plans are just some of the initiatives that Gretchen has used to enhance safety in her successful career.</p><p><br></p><p>This uplifting conversation gives EHS professionals practical guidance to expand their outlook, knowledge, collaboration, and influence to proactively make their organizations safer.</p><p><br></p><p>Learn more about Gretchen and her organisation’s work: <a href="https://www.helioffshore.org/">HeliOffshore</a> </p><p><br></p><p>Resources Gretchen recommends:</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Being-Human-Safety-Critical-Organisations-Gregory-ebook/dp/B075KVMKN2">Being Human in Safety-Critical Organisations eBook : Gregory, Dik, Shanahan, Paul</a></p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://www.iogp.org/bookstore/product/learning-from-normal-work/">Learning from normal work | IOGP Publications library</a> </p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://skybrary.aero/">SKYbrary Aviation Safety</a></p><p><br></p><p>Gretchen Haskins on LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/gretchen-haskins-b831086/">Gretchen Haskins | LinkedIn</a></p><p><br></p><p>Safety Labs is created by Safety Products Global, the world's leading manufacturer of safety knives. Through our trusted brands, Klever, Slice and PHC, we empower companies to prevent injuries by providing safer cutting tools for every material and application. Find us at <a href="http://www.safetyproducts.global">www.safetyproducts.global</a></p><p><br></p><p>If you have any questions, please email us at <a href="mailto:safetylabs@safetyproducts.global">safetylabs@safetyproducts.global</a></p>
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