Safety On The Frontlines - with Crystal Danbury

The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast

This week, Colin talks to Crystal Danbury, the director of safety and insurance for Sainsburys PLC, and who formerly led safety at companies such as Openreach, Geodis and Camelot.

Crystal talks to Colin about the ways in which safety has evolved since the beginning of her own journey, the importance of being on the front lines of business in order to better assess requirements, and how to refine processes.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Management are embracing the concept of talking to the people on the frontlines in order to get a better understanding of what is needed, and how things work more effectively.
• Meetings are crucial in establishing communication, but we also need to find time to step away and learn something new each day.
• Judging potential impact is about examining whether or not the processes we put into place truly help others, and keeps them protected.
• Our people are constantly coming up with ideas about how we can make things better. We can refine the process by constantly asking where we can not just add, but subtract unnecessary and extraneous procedure.

BEST MOMENTS

'I'm making sure people and harm is right in the centre of safety strategy'

'None of us were talking about the reason why tasks were on the list in the first place...'

'You can't do safety without being on the frontlines'

'We're a slave to inboxes'

VALUABLE RESOURCES

The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449

Project Mollitiam - https://www.projectmollitiam.com

Crystal Danbury - https://crystaldanbury.co.uk/?page_id=32

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).