Risk And Risk Perception - with Peter Jenkins

The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast

This week, Colin is joined by Peter Jenkins, a safety specialist, and the Group Health And Safety Manager for Dalziel, to discuss his incredible journey in business, and the topic of risk and risk perception - how it affects us as individuals, and how it has evolved across time.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Impostor syndrome can be an issue amongst health and safety professionals, but it can be overcome by focussing upon what can specifically be done to give ourselves the confidence to deliver policies.
• We all have different perceptions of what risk is, and have all been affected in numerous ways by the events that have taken place across the last two years. The safety landscape is ever-evolving, and no one's perspectives should be discounted.
• Especially in high-pressure situations, the biggest strength of any health and safety professional is to be able to adapt to the unknown.

BEST MOMENTS

'You're never going to get one-size-fits-all'

'What do I need to give me the confidence in myself to deliver these policies?'

'The ability to adapt to the unknown is our biggest strength'

VALUABLE RESOURCES

The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449

Project Mollitiam - https://www.projectmollitiam.com

Peter Jenkins LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ptmjenkins/?originalSubdomain=uk

ABOUT THE HOST

Colin Nottage

‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’

This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.

He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.

Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.

Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.

He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).