{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Facility Rockstars","title":"People Are the Safety Strategy with Six EHS Leaders","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1692,"description":"To close out our six-week series dedicated to environmental health and safety leadership, this special compilation episode brings together highlights from Jay Culbert's conversations with six standout EHS professionals: Colleen Walker, Vanessa Brady, Lori Santoli, Jessica Goodhue, Don Bezek, and Don Watson. Rather than a single interview, this episode weaves together their most memorable stories, from redesigning lockout/tagout procedures to make them intuitive on the plant floor, to navigating management-of-change processes for new equipment and chemicals, to rethinking how facilities are designed with universal accessibility in mind.\nAcross every story, one thread holds the whole series together: EHS is fundamentally a people profession. Guests reflect on building cross-functional trust, using automation to eliminate hazards without eliminating jobs, balancing safety requirements against food-safety regulations, and the lasting lessons learned from leading teams through COVID-19. Whether you've followed the whole series or are just tuning in, this finale distills six weeks of hard-won wisdom into one conversation about why the technical side of safety only works when the human side comes first. Takeaways:Make safety procedures visual, not just verbal. Complex lockout/tagout steps became far more reliable once translated into color-coded, numbered visual indicators that workers could follow in the moment — not just recall from training.Build a cross-functional review process for management of change. Before bringing in new equipment, chemicals, or technology, loop in a team to review risks, permits, and training needs upfront — it's cheaper than discovering the gap after the fact.Automate to eliminate hazards, not to eliminate people. Look for opportunities to remove human error from dangerous manual tasks while redirecting — not replacing — the people who did them.Understand your industry's unique constraints. Safety solutions that work in one sector (like food...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/wIL-dAttDK3kGPGCx8T-IEpb3_8niKNWbKmYivkvwao/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS83NTkz/MjEzMTc5OTY4MmRi/MzYxYmU4NjI4MTE4/ZTQ1ZC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}