Advice for Upcoming Safety Professionals || Series with Ron Gantt

As we continue our conversation with Scott Shackelford, Product Compliance Engineer with Google, we turn our discussion to safety leadership and influencing, especially in the absence of regulation. Scott talks about his experience in his current role where compliance is a given and addressing safety to mitigate anticipated risk so it becomes the norm in the future. Looking at it from a strategic risk perspective, Scott includes prediction of risk and risk tolerance as part of the factors to use in addressing risk to get engagement of the stakeholders.

In this episode of Client Side Chats, Scott Shackelford, Product Compliance Engineer with Google, discusses risk around consumer electronics with James that can be applied to multiple types of safety situations. Scott talks about mitigating factors to address risk should a product be opened or used in a way that’s unplanned. James gets Scott’s thoughts on how the skills of a safety professional, which he is, from using the lens of risk to help engineers in a valuable way and speaking the language of leadership. This conversation will turn towards influencing in part two next week.

Last week we discussed Safety and AI with Ron Gantt. This week on Client Side Chats we provide examples of AI issues from a safety perspective and how we may address them as safety professionals with Ron. We discuss shared experiences where AI has gone wrong, resulting in potential risks, some of them catastrophic. And we discuss where AI has gone right including how it involves the human with plenty of time to adjust to impending risks. Ron is HSE Director – Americas at Yondr Group. PhD Candidate in Cognitive Systems Engineering at The Ohio State University.