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.
Role of Safety: Integration || Client Side Chats Special Episode Part 3
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.