The Safety and Risk Success Podcast

About The Safety and Risk Success Podcast

Bring the benefits of proactive safety and risk management to life, through insights, experiences and stories. Every week, host Christian Harris - the UK's leading slips, trips and falls specialist - presents a new episode, typically with expert guests, to discuss: - Safety - Health - Wellbeing - Insurance - Risk management - Claims defensibility

Publisher

Christian Harris

Category

business · education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

27 Jun 2020

Latest episode

23 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

294 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   23 Oct 2026

   The Fear of Getting It Wrong: Bias, Language and the Human Side of Safety (with Joanne Lockwood)

   Recorded live as a Safety Roundtable, Christian Harris speaks with Joanne Lockwood, an inclusion speaker, podcaster and author, about the human side of safety: the fear of getting it wrong, bias, language and trust. Joanne shares how she moved from the RAF and a career in IT into inclusion work, and what she learned about unconscious exclusion along the way. She explains why fear holds people back in conversations, why belonging is different from inclusion, and what organisations lose when people quietly disengage. The conversation looks at how trust is built so that people speak up, what the airline industry learned about listening, and how bias shapes whose concerns are believed, from accents and confidence to who we socialise with. They also cover why unconscious bias training only works when it leads to action, how communication styles and everyday phrases such as "my door is always open" can create distance, and how emotional and cultural intelligence can be learned and practised. Joanne closes by explaining how an organisation's message gets diluted as it travels down through the business, a challenge safety leaders will recognise. Joanne's book, Don't Be a Dick: 99 Ways, is due out soon. Connect with her on LinkedIn, listen to her podcast, Inclusion Bytes, at inclusionbytes.co.uk, or find the book at 99ways.co.uk. Curious where your own organisation stands on slip risk? Take the free Slip Prevention Scorecard: [link]

2. 

   16 Oct 2026

   Kylie Long on Psychosocial Risk, Proactive Safety and Lessons from Nursing

   Christian Harris speaks with Kylie Long, a registered nurse who works in a major trauma centre in Brisbane and runs the workplace health and safety consultancy Support and Safety Solutions, about what emergency nursing has taught her about proactive safety and the human side of risk. Kylie explains why she moved from reactive, chaotic clinical work into prevention, and how reading people and rooms, listening for what isn't said, and building relationships at every level of an organisation shape her approach. The conversation moves into psychosocial risk: what a solid assessment looks like in practice, why it's a risk management process rather than a daunting list of tasks, and why frontline leaders need to observe and respond to hazards like workload, rostering and fatigue without becoming psychologists. They also cover why some organisations delay action until a claim or investigation forces it, how HR and health and safety should work together, why generic off-the-shelf safety systems tend to fail, and why doing what you say you're going to do matters more than having the most elaborate document. Kylie closes by sharing her work supporting ageing parents, why caregiving is a hidden psychosocial load, and the five lessons from nursing that have stayed with her: communication, advocacy, compassion, systems, and understanding that people want to be heard. Find Kylie Long on LinkedIn, or visit Support and Safety Solutions: [website link] Curious where your own organisation stands on slip risk? Take the free Slip Prevention Scorecard: [link]

3. 

   9 Oct 2026

   Health and Safety Beyond the Workplace: Volunteering and Civic Duty with Adam Gomes

   Health and safety does not stop when you leave work. In this episode of the Safety Roundtable, Christian Harris talks to Adam Gomes about what happens when you take health and safety skills into your community. It was recorded live, with questions and comments from the audience. Adam has worked in health and safety for over 20 years, including at the NHS and the University of Derby. He sits on the executive board of the University Safety Health Association and has been closely involved with IIRSM and IOSH. His LinkedIn profile lists around 25 volunteering roles. Together, they cover: Why Adam says yes to volunteering, and whether "giving back" has become a cliché How to deal with imposter syndrome and where to start What being a special constable taught him about investigation, communication and confidence How to raise a safety concern politely when you have no authority How organisations are responding to Martyn's Law How helping a children's football team led to a health, safety and wellbeing role on the club committee The shared skills across health and safety, environmental management and business continuity How to talk about your volunteering without making it about you This episode is for health and safety professionals at any stage of their career, and for anyone thinking about getting involved in their community. Prefer to watch? The video version is on YouTube: [https://youtu.be/HTjQEp_LHYk] Take the Slip Risk Scorecard: [scorecard.slipsafety.co.uk] Get the book Slipology by Christian Harris: [https://slipsafety.co.uk/book/] Adam invites listeners to connect with him on LinkedIn.

Who has been a guest on The Safety and Risk Success Podcast

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• Helen Taylor Brinson
• Kevin Burns
• Sidney Dekker
• David Picton
• Louise

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 74 / 100

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Quality

96

Social presence

97

YouTube

0

Engagement

81

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