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In this sixth short and final installment of this series, the Business Case for Safety with ASSP’s Scott Fowler, Senior Content Specialist and host of The Case for Safety Podcast, and James talk about providing more than one reason (compliance) as the value of safety. Leadership needs to know more about the impact (positive) of safety to improve that proposition value. Listen in to learn how planting the seeds and consistent watering can grow your safety value.

In the fifth installment of this series, the Business Case for Safety, James and ASSP’s Scott Fowler, Senior Content Specialist and host of The Case for Safety Podcast, discuss alignment and how that matters to the organization’s leaders to embrace safety efforts and see the value. Using a real case in agriculture, James explains how safety efforts can align by taking something that would address a compliance issue and changing that into a business case issue. Listen in to learn how to align your safety efforts to your business.

In the fourth installment of this series, the Business Case for Safety, James and ASSP’s Scott Fowler, Senior Content Specialist and host of The Case for Safety Podcast, discuss how safety efforts can enhance production and result in a profitable return. Using a real case in construction, James explains the details of how a fall protection investment changed how companies built homes. Listen in to learn how investing in safety keeps people safe, and turns a profit for businesses.

The third installment of this series, the Business Case for Safety, James and ASSP’s Scott Fowler, Senior Content Specialist and host of The Case for Safety Podcast focuses on integrating safety. Safety professionals can’t expect business processes to change to safety’s demand; rather, safety needs to consider how to integrate within the successful business process to make the business safer. It’s a matter of finding the opportunities to integrate safety processes and activities that make for a lasting safety change. Listen in as we further discuss how safety can be integrated within business processes and share some examples.

The second installment of the series with James and ASSP’s Scott Fowler, Senior Content Specialist and host of The Case for Safety Podcast, on the Business Case for Safety, focuses on Demonstrating Safety’s Business Value. In this episode, we discuss that while we all want to believe that safety is an inherent part of decision making, it really isn’t. In this episode of Client Side Chats we discuss how safety really does provide efficiency and productivity value to the business, it’s really how it’s framed and aligned with how the business measures performance and success. Listen in as we further discuss how safety is of vital business value.

Last year, James sat down with ASSP’s Scott Fowler, Senior Content Specialist and host of The Case for Safety Podcast, to discuss the Business Case for Safety. Client Side Chats will be presenting a series of the discussion that covers a vast swath of this subject matter including several examples of how the safety professional can integrate safety within business for alignment, positive uptake, and equal billing. Our first episode is less than 5 minutes and is entitled “All Businesses Want Safety … Right?”: listen in as this is the start of discussing how safety is of vital business value.

In our fifth and final part of our series with Matt Heron, MS, PE, CSP, CPE, Lead Safety Engineer at the Southwest Research Institute, we discuss Matt’s involvement with the ASSP, and some exciting opportunities for the next generation of safety professionals. Tune in to learn more, as it’s sure to interest you.

Part four of our five-part series with Matt Heron, MS, PE, CSP, CPE, Lead Safety Engineer at the Southwest Research Institute, continues our discussion on an interesting ergonomics success in an industrial setting. Matt and James discuss the business impact, which in this case, is astounding and has led to further safety initiatives with an eye towards similar or greater success: this is sure to interest you. Tune in next time for our fifth and final part in this series with Matt.

Part three of our five-part series with Matt Heron, MS, PE, CSP, CPE, Lead Safety Engineer at the Southwest Research Institute, focuses on an interesting ergonomics success in an industrial setting. Matt and James discuss the design of the replacement tool and how that assisted the employees and improved the process. The business impact will be discussed in Part four. An excellent 10 minutes to watch and listen.

In part two of our five-part series with Matt Heron, MS, PE, CSP, CPE, Lead Safety Engineer at the Southwest Research Institute, we discuss the use of the JSA as an interactive tool for keeping safety in the forefront. The key in getting uptake on using the JSA is making it easily accessible and easy to use. Integrating the JSA into the work process makes it part of the job and ensures it does not remain static.