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Safety Labs by Slice

The importance of people skills in safety management

Apr 4, 2022
22:22

In this episode, Mary Conquest speaks with Jerry Smith, an HSE expert with over 20 years of experience in workplace safety across a wide range of industries.


Jerry outlines why strong people skills are essential for modern HSE professionals, and shares his wisdom on inevitable challenges, such as overcoming leadership apathy towards safety and having difficult safety conversations with employees.


His starting point is always people, and Jerry’s human-centered approach to safety management focuses on qualities such as honesty, compassion, trust, empathy and continuous self-improvement. He genuinely cares - and eats, sleeps and breathes safety.


Jerry is currently HSE, Compliance & Risk Manager at Vanderlande in Australia.


Jerry A. Smith on LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jerry-a-smith-77002852


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If you have any questions, please email us at safetylabs@sliceproducts.com 

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