Who is Ultimately Accountable for Safety?

In this episode, Mary Conquest speaks with Brye Sargent, a professional workplace safety coach and trainer with over 20 years of safety management experience across multiple industries.

Brye believes that EHS professionals are undervalued in the workplace and should receive far more support implementing safety programs from frontline supervisors and managers.

Furthermore, because safety impacts all areas of an organization and has such wide-ranging benefits, she argues that HSE professionals should be seen as a member of the executive management team.

Brye shares great practical tips on making this a reality and achieving safety accountabilty, including how to encourage co-worker involvement, compromise with operations, and collaborate with leadership.

Her coaching business is called The Safety Geek, she hosts a podcast and YouTube channel and offers online safety management resources and courses to up-and-coming EHS professionals.

Brye Sargent on LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/brye-sargent/

The Safety Geek website:

https://thesafetygeek.com/

The Safety Geek podcast:

https://thesafetygeek.com/category/podcast

The Safety Geek Youtube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/c/SafetyGeek

Download her five step infographic on accountability:

https://thesafetygeek.com/slice

The book that Brye refers to in her interview is:

The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results by Gary Keller