Leading and Learning Through Safety
Do you want to engage your culture? Safety is the first step to creating the motivation needed for people to perform their best. Each day, we have the chance to lead our teams and learn more about our people through an understanding of our safety climate. Through looking at current issues in HSE, we chat about creating cultural value through safety. Your host is Dr. Mark French, CSP, SPHR aka The Safety Dude.
Episodes
171 episodes
Episode 169 - 2025 Predictions
The episode discusses anticipated trends in 2025 across leadership, HR, safety, and psychology. Key points include:Shift in Hiring Practices: A move from valuing degrees to prioritizing skills, with organizations increasingly...
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Episode 168 - Welcoming the New Year
OSHA’s Top 10 Cited Violations for 2024:Frequent safety issues such as fall protection, hazard communication, ladders, respiratory protection, lockout/tagout, powered industrial trucks, scaffolding, PPE, and machine guarding....
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Episode 167 - Going Beyond
The podcast episode focuses on a catastrophic explosion at a food additive manufacturing site in Louisville, Kentucky. The explosion was attributed to the failure of a ventilation system on a cooker, leading to overheating, overpressurization, ...
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Episode 166 - Back to Basics
The podcast emphasizes the importance of safety leadership in fostering a work culture that prioritizes employee well-being and risk management. Dr. Mark French, the host, shares personal experiences to illustrate the moral imperative behind sa...
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Episode 165: Safety is People First
In the podcast, Dr. Mark French discusses the importance of leadership in creating a strong safety culture within organizations. He emphasizes the need for leaders to prioritize the well-being of their teams, using the management of heat stress...
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Episode 164 - Confined Spaces
The podcast episode from "Leading and Learning Through Safety," hosted by Dr. Mark French, focuses on the topic of confined spaces and their safety implications, particularly in industrial settings like factories with trash compactors. Dr. Fren...
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Episode 163: Perception of Risk
In this episode of the Leading and Learning Through Safety podcast, Dr. Mark French reflects on the nature of risk perception, safety, and willpower in both personal and professional settings. He recounts a personal incident where he i...
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Episode 162: It Can Happen
Dr. Mark French discusses a personal injury incident as a way to illustrate how even experienced safety professionals can momentarily lose focus and get hurt. French describes how, during yard work, he accidentally burned and cut his leg with a...
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Episode 161: Where is Empathy
In this podcast episode, Dr. Mark French discusses the intersection of human resources (HR) and safety, emphasizing the importance of creating a culture that values both. He shares his recent experience at a Society for Human Resource Managemen...
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Episode 160: Standing in the Crossroads
In this episode of the "Leading and Learning Through Safety" podcast, Dr. Mark French reflects on his experience at the Kentucky Safety Conference, focusing on the critical intersection of physical and psychological safety in the workplace. He ...
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Episode 159: Who is the Leader?
The podcast episode discusses a tragic incident at a Kansas municipal airport where a 16-year-old worker was electrocuted while using a boom lift near high-voltage power lines. A 24-year-old worker also sustained severe burns in the inciden...
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Episode 158: Be Present
The podcast episode from Dr. Mark French focuses on the importance of leadership in safety, emphasizing the need for leaders to be directly involved and present where the work happens. French argues that safety is a key indicator of good leader...
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Episode 157: One Size Fits All
Dr. Mark French discusses the contentious topic of OSHA's "one size fits all" approach to lawmaking. He emphasizes that while this standardized approach may sometimes seem rigid and frustrating, it is fundamentally designed to protect workers a...
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Episode 156: Learning for the Future
In this week’s "Leading and Learning Through Safety" podcast, Dr. Mark French emphasizes the importance of capturing and understanding data to support risk reduction procedures, stating that good safety practices are indicative of good leadersh...
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Episode 155: Repeat Issues
In this episode of the "Leading and Learning Through Safety" podcast, hosted by Dr. Mark French, the focus is on systemic and normalizing incidents as part of a safety culture. Dr. French emphasizes the importance of learning from safety incide...
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Episode 154: Silence is not Safety
This week on the "Leading and Learning through Safety" podcast, Dr. Mark French delves into the importance of safety in fostering effective communication within organizations. He emphasizes that a safe environment is crucial for encouraging emp...
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Episode 153: Giving Voice to Safety
This week's episode of the "Leading and Learning through Safety" podcast, hosted by Dr. Mark French, delves into the dynamics of silence and voice in the workplace, particularly their impact on safety and team motivation. Dr. French emphasizes ...
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Episode 152: Choosing Words Wisely
French, delves into the theme of safety in the media, focusing on its portrayal and the importance of accurate reporting. Dr. French shares his background in journalism and expresses his frustration with the media's handling of workplace safety...
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Episode 151 - The Human Impact
This week's episode of the "Leading and Learning Through Safety" podcast, hosted by Dr. Mark French, delves into the significance of safety in workplaces, particularly focusing on forklift and powered industrial vehicle incidents. Dr. French em...
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Episode 150 - TN Safety Conf Recap
This episode of the "Leading and Learning Through Safety" podcast, hosted by Dr. Mark French, recaps the Tennessee Safety Conference in Nashville. Dr. French highlights the importance of both physical and psychological safety in the workplace, ...
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Episode 149: Process Safety Leadership
This episode of the "Leading and Learning Through Safety" podcast, hosted by Dr. Mark French, focuses on chemical safety and the importance of robust safety programs in workplaces dealing with high-heat chemical processes. Dr. French discusses ...
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Episode 148 - The Intent of Ethics
The podcast episode delves into the intersection of core values, ethics, and legislation within organizations, particularly focusing on safety and leadership. It discusses the debate surrounding whether a company can truly embody ethics, arguin...
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Episode 147 - Leading with Ethics
On this episode of the "Leading and Learning through Safety" podcast, Dr. Mark French discusses the significance of ethics in relation to workplace safety and its impact on the workforce. He emphasizes the importance of core values in creating ...
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