
Safety And Risk Success
Christian Harris
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
Categories: Business
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Most safety goals fail – but not because they’re too ambitious. The real problem? They’re often unclear, unrealistic, and lack a solid plan of action. If safety targets feel like just another compliance box to tick, it’s time to rethink the approach.
This episode dives into why traditional goal-setting methods fall short and what safety professionals can do differently to drive real, measurable change in 2025.
Highlights:
- Why traditional safety goals fail: Lack of clarity, unrealistic expectations, and no structured action plan.
- The hidden flaw in metric-driven targets: Focusing too much on numbers can create a disconnect from real-world safety improvements.
- The three pillars of effective safety goal setting: Vision (why it matters), Reality (where you are now), and Action (how to get there).
- Speaking the language of business: Aligning safety with organisational goals to drive engagement and impact.
- Beyond compliance: Why safety should be seen as a strategic enabler, not just a regulatory requirement.
- A better way to track progress: Shifting from rigid targets to meaningful, adaptable milestones.
- Real-world insights from safety professionals: Common challenges, practical solutions, and success stories from the field.
Actions:
- Sign up for a future Safety Roundtable: https://safetyroundtable.co.uk/
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Previous episodes
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205 - The Fatal Flaw in Safety Goal Setting – and How to Fix It for 2025 Fri, 07 Feb 2025 - 0h
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204 - Simple Skills That Save Lives: Elevating First Aid Awareness, With Helen Underwood Fri, 31 Jan 2025 - 0h
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203 - Risk as a Catalyst for Success, With Julien Haye Fri, 24 Jan 2025 - 0h
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202 - From NASA to Safety GPT: Revolutionizing Risk Management, With Joshua Jackson Fri, 17 Jan 2025 - 0h
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201 - Predicting and Shaping the Year Ahead in Safety Fri, 10 Jan 2025 - 0h
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200 - Achieving Impact Through Safety Leadership, With Megan Tranter Fri, 03 Jan 2025 - 0h
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199 - 2024 in Review: Leadership, Innovation, and Safety Breakthroughs Fri, 27 Dec 2024 - 0h
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198 - Transforming Musculoskeletal Risk Management, With Gareth Milner Fri, 20 Dec 2024 - 0h
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197 - How can the safety profession improve? Fri, 13 Dec 2024 - 0h
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196 - Modern Fire Safety Challenges and Solutions with Steve Wilcock Fri, 06 Dec 2024 - 0h
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195 - How to get your next safety role in 2025, with Laura Aucott Fri, 29 Nov 2024 - 0h
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194 - The Personality of Safety, With Mark Wilkinson Fri, 22 Nov 2024 - 0h
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193 - An Insurance Company’s View on Safety with Robert Beesley of AXA XL Fri, 15 Nov 2024 - 0h
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192 - Inside Aviation Safety, with Jim Holland Fri, 08 Nov 2024 - 0h
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191 - Disrupting Wellbeing, with Petra Velzeboer Fri, 01 Nov 2024 - 0h
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190 - Manufacturing Safety: Insights and Innovations with Chris Newson Fri, 25 Oct 2024 - 0h
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189 - Mind The Gap: Rethinking Our Approach To Risk Perception, with Carla Crocombe Fri, 18 Oct 2024 - 0h
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188 - From Tragedy to Triumph, with Jason Anker and Abbi Taylor Fri, 11 Oct 2024 - 0h
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187 - The worst thing you can say to a safety professional, With Carsten Busch Fri, 04 Oct 2024 - 0h
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186 - Values-Based Safety, With Terry McSween Fri, 27 Sep 2024 - 0h
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185 - Book Launch: Prevent Slip Accidents With Slipology Fri, 20 Sep 2024
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184 - Book Preview: Prevent Slip Accidents with Slipology Fri, 13 Sep 2024 - 0h
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183 - Slip Accidents: A Global Crisis Fri, 06 Sep 2024 - 0h
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182 - Can You Get a Financial ROI from Safety? Fri, 30 Aug 2024 - 0h
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181 - Preventing HAVS the Scientific Way, with Andrei Feraru Fri, 23 Aug 2024 - 0h
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180 - 5 Lessons from Managing Safety in Heritage, Conservation, and Wild Settings, with Adele Masztalerz Fri, 16 Aug 2024 - 0h
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179 - Mentorship, Technology, and Perspective: 3 Tools for a Safety Professional's Success in 2024 with Hugh Maxwell Fri, 09 Aug 2024 - 0h
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178 - Are you good or just lucky? Rethinking Serious Injury & Fatality Prevention, with Daryl Wake of Dekra Fri, 02 Aug 2024 - 0h
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177 - Safer by Design: ensuring cybersecurity in a challenging landscape, with René-Sylvain Bédard Fri, 26 Jul 2024 - 0h
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176 - Fighting the war on compliance Fri, 19 Jul 2024
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175 - Safety as a Value-Add: How to Influence and Engage with Your Business, with Adam Clarke Fri, 12 Jul 2024 - 0h
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174 - Rail Safety Week: Slips, Trips & Falls Prevention Fri, 05 Jul 2024
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173 - Striving for Safety Excellence, with John Barnacle-Bowd Fri, 28 Jun 2024 - 0h
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172 - The Insurer Carrot - how to get your insurer to fund safety Fri, 21 Jun 2024 - 0h
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171 - Embracing Curiosity and Continuous Learning to Overcome ‘The Sticky Middle’ with Anna Keen Fri, 14 Jun 2024 - 0h
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170 - From safety professional to safety leader: why and how? Fri, 07 Jun 2024 - 0h
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169 - Balancing technology and human expertise in safety, with Ronan Finnegan Fri, 31 May 2024 - 0h
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168 - Is safety an illusion? Fri, 24 May 2024 - 0h
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167 - How and why external factors drive safety performance, with Tanya Jenke Fri, 17 May 2024 - 0h
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166 - The Art of Strategic Safety, with Alastair Davey Fri, 10 May 2024 - 0h
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165 - Results of the Big Health & Safety Engagement Survey, with Karen Hewitt Fri, 03 May 2024 - 0h
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164 - Proving Safety, with Greg Smith Fri, 26 Apr 2024 - 0h
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163 - Safety vs politics, and being “optimistically discontent”, with Shonagh Methven Fri, 19 Apr 2024 - 0h
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162 - Exploring and Challenging the Hierarchy Of Controls Fri, 12 Apr 2024 - 0h
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161 - Diverse Minds, Safer Workplaces, with Nathan Whitbread Fri, 05 Apr 2024 - 0h
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160 - Safety Culture - Unpacked Fri, 29 Mar 2024 - 0h
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159 - Rebranding Safety - A Framework For Operational Risk Success, with James MacPherson Fri, 22 Mar 2024
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158 - The AI-volution of Safety Fri, 15 Mar 2024 - 0h
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157 - Exploring the intersection of safety and high performance, with Stuart Hughes Fri, 08 Mar 2024 - 0h
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156 - Simplify, digitise, automate, with Peter Jenkins Fri, 01 Mar 2024 - 0h