This week on the Conversation we are joined by the mecuirial Rob Kirkwood. A refreshingly honest conversation with some interesting insights from across the ditch. Available at Spotify, ITunes, Stitcher, Iheart Radio, Google Podcasts, Google Chrome and many more. If you want a quick link try these: https://buff.ly/3Arrmq9 or watch at https://buff.ly/3AeAEG

Rob is the Organisational Performance Manager for Energyworks in Taranaki and has spent the last 30 years working in a number of high-risk industries including oil and gas, electricity, adventure tourism, transportation and waste.

Rob has also held a number of health, safety and environmental roles, however over the last 10 years, Rob has watched the ‘safety industry’ go from non-existent in some sectors to a bureaucratic burden in others with layers of administration that add little value. Despondent with corporate zero harm fallacies, tracking metrics and low trust leadership models, Rob sought out a new way of ‘doing’ safety and the results speak for themselves but in doing so has realised that this has very little to do with safety. Energyworks also won the inaugural Safety II category at the National Health and Safety awards last year and as a result have been instrumental in taking the lead in removing health and safety from the vocabulary.

Rob believes that every person can undertake growth personally and professionally in the right environment. Rob’s approach revolves around the principle that workers are not the problem but the solution so we need to ensure our people are at the core of decision making.

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