How Can You Make a Case for Empowering Safety Culture?

In our first episode, Mary Conquest talks with professor Tim Marsh, a leading expert in behavioral safety and occupational psychology. Tim Marsh discusses mental health, elements of safety culture, making a business case for management, situational awareness, effective communication in safety, and other topics.

Tim Marsh was one of the team leaders of the original UK research into behavioral safety in the early 1990s, and is a Chartered Psychologist and a Chartered Fellow of IOSH. He ran the open courses on Behavioural Safety and Safety Culture for IOSH for many years. He has worked with hundreds of companies around the world, including the BBC, the National Theatre and the European Space Agency, as well as the usual list of blue-chip organizations from manufacturing, utilities, food and drink, oil and gas, and pharmaceutics. He was awarded a President's Commendation by the Institute of Risk and Safety Management in 2008 and was selected as their first ever 'Specialist Fellow' in 2010.

Tim Marsh on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-marsh-a24a01a/

"Talking Health, Safety and Wellbeing: Building an Empowering Culture in a Post-COVID World" by Tim Marsh -- https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09GK16CND/

In the interview, Tim Marsh mentioned "Black Box Thinking" by Matthew Syed.

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