In this episode, Mary Conquest speaks with Gretchen Haskins, an internationally recognized human factors expert and safety leader with extensive experience improving performance in aviation and other safety-critical industries.

Is the profession spending too much time looking backwards, managing safety reactively, and overly focusing on compliance, incidents, and corrective actions?

Gretchen wants safety professionals to shape strategy rather than fix issues. Drawing on her background in human factors, she explores how understanding the critical everyday tasks undertaken by workers will help identify opportunities to design the risk out of safety systems.

Creating a powerful context, finding a common safety purpose and building action plans are just some of the initiatives that Gretchen has used to enhance safety in her successful career.

This uplifting conversation gives EHS professionals practical guidance to expand their outlook, knowledge, collaboration, and influence to proactively make their organizations safer.

Learn more about Gretchen and her organisation’s work: HeliOffshore

Resources Gretchen recommends:

Being Human in Safety-Critical Organisations eBook : Gregory, Dik, Shanahan, Paul

Learning from normal work | IOGP Publications library

SKYbrary Aviation Safety

Gretchen Haskins on LinkedIn: Gretchen Haskins | LinkedIn

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