{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Clocking In","title":"Why You Should Treat Safety Like Preventive Maintenance","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1387,"description":"Is your safety program really working, or are you just too close to it to tell?\nIn this episode of Clocking In, host Mike Smith sits down with Ryan Werner, Industrial Safety Consultant at Robert Dietrick Company, who came to the field the hard way. Two 100-pound steel pipes fell on him during an unloading job in his early 20s. After back surgeries and a career reset, he spent years managing health, safety, and environment inside the kinds of facilities he now audits. He knows what it looks like from both sides of the clipboard.\nThis episode makes the case for outside safety consultations, not as a red flag, but as standard operating procedure. You'll come away understanding why safety and productivity are not in competition, what an outside audit actually involves, and why the facilities that do this well treat it the same way they treat preventative maintenance on equipment.\nKey Takeaways:\nSlowing forklifts down to reduce accidents forced one facility to innovate. They ended up faster and safer.\nYour safety team is reactive by design. Injuries, near misses, contractor questions, they all jump the queue. Floor walks get pushed. An outside consultant shows up with no queue.\nFresh eyes catch what familiarity hides. If you've walked past something every day for two years, you've stopped seeing it.\nIf an outside consultation prevents one injury, it is no longer a safety expense. It is a business decision.\n\nHighlights:\n(00:00) Meet Ryan Werner\n(00:33) Why you should consider an outside safety consultation or audit\n(01:42) The misconception that safety and productivity trade off against each other\n(03:13) The knife sharpening machine and the finger that almost wasn't\n(04:10) What race cars have to do with running a safer facility\n(05:09) How slowing down forklifts made one facility faster\n(07:00) The accident that sent Ryan Werner to college and into safety\n(09:20) What keeps HSE managers off the floor even when they want to be there\n(10:14) Whether it feels...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/0ufm_fDUv0nYffWn3MJM4ReqBaWSUhluEW8XR_mPUmU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8wNWY5/ZjU3MDhjM2RkMDBk/ZTU3ZGJiMmMxNWU2/NTM3MC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}