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 Bellina, HazTek’s logistics manager and Matt Clark, HazTek’s Operations Manager/Safety Professional, 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.
Leading Safely™ | A HazTek Podcast
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 two sets of numbers that companies use when tracking safety metrics — OSHA recordable incidents and a safety metric system from the client’s vantage point.
Lance goes on to clarify that the OSHA recordable incident data can be skewed since it exclusively includes data from the individual company without considering other companies working on the project. Due to this, the data may show that no safety incidents have happened on these construction sites when that is most likely not the case. By using a safety metric system from the client’s vantage point — which includes data from every subcontractor and employee working on the site — the client receives an accurate report of their overall site safety. For anyone interested in implementing this safety metric system, Lance provides advice for getting started.
Lance also discusses how being transparent about safety is so important. When companies are completely forthcoming about their safety issues, their employees feel comfortable to come forward with any safety concerns. This is a very educational episode that our listeners won’t want to miss.