Leading Safely™ | A HazTek Podcast
Leading Safely™ | A HazTek Podcast is dedicated to engaging with our listeners through a diverse range of environmental, health, and safety topics. Podcast hosts Chris and Matt, team up to tackle hot safety topics, interview experts in the safety industry, answer listener questions, and highlight opportunities for those in the safety field. The podcast is designed for all types of safety professionals, as well as for anyone interested in learning about safety in a new and interesting way.
What makes Leading Safely™ | A HazTek Podcast unique is that our co-host Matt is a safety professional with years of in-the-field experience, while Chris, who is safety adjacent, does not have a safety background — together they both have compelling safety questions that we all want answered. It makes for a great dynamic and an interesting listen for people in the safety industry, people looking to get into the safety industry, and people who just want to learn more about safety in general.
HazTek is a professional safety services organization that employs 300+ safety professionals across North America and throughout the world. New episodes of Leading Safely™ | A HazTek Podcast come out twice a month and listeners can send in their questions to podcast@haztekinc.com. Listeners can also visit our website to learn more at https://www.haztekinc.com.
Episodes
23 episodes
Ray Stupienski | Safety Q & A
HazTek Employee Programs Advisor Ray Stupienski joins Chris Bellina for a special Q and A episode of our podcast.Since the launch of this podcast in June 2023, our listeners have been emailing safety questions to our email (
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Episode 23
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40:51
James Beasley | Effective Pre-Task Planning on Construction Sites
James Beasley, HazTek Senior Safety Manager, discusses a topic he calls “embracing the premortem” on construction sites. James coined this term because having effective pre-task planning and job hazard analyses prevents accidents and injuries —...
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Season 1
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Episode 22
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33:04
Herb Strong | Preventing Slips, Trips, and Falls
Herb Strong, HazTek’s Client Services Manager (and former OSHA compliance officer), joins Chris and Matt again for a very important discussion on preventing slips, trips, and falls on construction sites. Herb informs our audience of the alarmin...
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Season 1
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Episode 21
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33:31
Kelly Feldkamp | Taking Care of Your Body as a Construction Worker
Kelly Feldkamp, owner of ProVention Plus LLC and certified massage therapist, discusses with Chris Bellina and Matt Clark how construction workers, and those working on sites, can take care of their bodies. She explains how she uses touch thera...
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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44:46
Lee Worley | Training for Ironworkers and Crafts Professionals
Ironworker and Executive Director of Apprenticeship and Training for Ironworkers International Lee Worley discusses with Chris and Matt the ironworker training process. Lee explains what his position entails and how IMPACT— Ironworker Managemen...
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Episode 19
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50:20
Bart Peetermans | Innovative Confined Space Rescue Technology
Code Red Safety’s Vice President of Product Development, Bart Peetermans, discusses an innovative confined space rescue technology that he invented and patented in 2000. This type of technology is now replicated as the norm for the refinery, ch...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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31:25
Kris Corbett | Managing Your Mental Health as a Construction Worker
During the episode, Kris Corbett, Director at Atlas Injury Prevention, discusses how to manage mental health as a construction worker — a vital issue as the suicide rates in this industry are extremely high. She informs our listeners that 16% o...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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45:08
Lance Simons | How to Measure Safety Effectively
Lance Simons, Vice President of Safety & Quality for the Haskell Company, joins Chris Bellina and Matt Clark on Episode 16. During the discussion, Lance educates our listeners on effective safety metric systems. He explains that there are t...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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28:47
Herb Strong | Preparing for OSHA Inspections
During this very informative episode, Herb Strong, HazTek’s Client Services Manager (and former OSHA compliance officer), discusses the steps that safety professionals should take when preparing for an OSHA inspection. He goes over the various ...
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Episode 15
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34:56
Steven Rank | Safety Standards vs. Safety Compliance Directives
Steven Rank, Executive Director of Safety & Health for the Ironworkers International, joins Chris Bellina and Matt Clark on Episode 14. Steven has years of experience as an ironworker and is a member of Iron Workers Local #10 in Kansas City...
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Episode 14
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38:25
Patti Rubnitz | Current HazTek Career Opportunities
Patti Rubnitz, HazTek’s Senior Corporate Recruiter, joins Chris Bellina on Episode 13. During the episode, Patti discusses current HazTek career opportunities in the northeast region, the greater Virginia area, and the Charlotte, North Carolina...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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26:31
David Myrick | Solving the Worker Shortage for the Construction Industry
David Myrick, Senior Director of Field Strategy & EHS for Cooper Electrical Construction Company joins Chris Bellina and Matt Clark on the latest episode of our podcast. David has worked for Cooper Electrical for 10 years and started at the...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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50:33
Kris Corbett | Injury Prevention on Construction Sites
During the episode, Kris and our team talk about the correlation between workplace injuries and emotional well-being. If workers are not feeling their best, they will not work at their best — leaving them at risk for getting hurt. Additionally,...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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38:23
Matt Joens | Wearable Technology for the Construction Industry
Matt Joens is a client executive for MākuSafe, a safety technology company formed by a powerful team of software, hardware, and data engineers. During the episode, Matt and our HazTek hosts discuss how digital technology has significantly advan...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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32:21
Chris Bellina | Back to School Safety
Chris Bellina is solo today for a special mini episode of our podcast. In honor of Back to School month, Chris goes over school safety tips for children and parents. He provides transportation advice, general tips, and cautionary tales fo...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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13:37
Laynnea Myles | Felt Leadership in the Safety Industry
Laynnea Myles, Assistant Vice President of Environmental, Health, and Safety at L’Oréal, joins Chris Bellina and Matt Clark on this episode. Laynnea is an EHS professional who motivates, energizes, and empowers people to shift their mindset fro...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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50:26
Jim Ellis | ESG (Environmental Social Governance) in the Safety Industry
Jim Ellis, a Senior Global Executive with over 40 years of global leadership experience, joins Chris Bellina and Matt Clark on the podcast. Jim is an industry expert for engineering and data centers who started his company, J Ellis Consulting E...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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47:36
Fred Miller | Electrical System Technology for Mission Critical Facilities
Fred Miller is the Vice Present of Business Development for Cyber Sciences, a company that provides precision time synchronization and event recording instrumentation for electrical systems. Fred brings insight about this exciting technology an...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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35:27
Ray Stupienski | Keeping Kids' Sports Safe — Both Physically and Emotionally
HazTek’s Ray Stupienski joins Chris Bellina and Matt Clark to discuss safety in youth sports — both physically and emotionally. They talk about who should be coaching youth sports and tips for parents with children playing sports. Ray brings hi...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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54:58
Andy Pero | Helping Military Members Transition into Civilian Careers
Andy Pero, Account Executive for Orion Talent, joins Matt and Chris on this podcast episode to discuss military members transitioning into civilian careers. Andy brings insight into the process that veterans go through to start a new career out...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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36:28
Robert Smith | The Human Connection in Safety
Robert Smith, Director of Environmental, Health, and Safety at Prime Data Centers joins Matt and Chris on this podcast episode to discuss the importance of making a human connection in the safety and construction industry. Robert talks about hi...
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Episode 3
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41:50
Alex Willis | Diversity & Inclusion in the Safety Industry
Alex Willis, CEO of Leadership Surge, joins Matt and Chris to discuss Diversity & Inclusion in the construction industry — as well as in other working environments. Alex brings a new perspective that challenges how people currently view div...
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Episode 2
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41:07
Matt Clark and Chris Bellina | Introducing our Hosts
In the pilot episode of Leading Safely™ | A HazTek Podcast, co-hosts Matt Clark and Chris Bellina introduce themselves, HazTek, and Leading Safely™ — while detailing what listeners can expect from future episodes. In addition, Matt and Chris di...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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18:17