The Occupational Safety Leadership Podcast
Dr. Ayers/Applied Safety and Environmental Management
Interviews along with a Q&A format answering questions about safety. Together we‘ll help answer not just safety compliance but the strategy and tactics to implement injury elimination/severity.
Episodes
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Aug 11, 2024 • 5min
Episode 172 - Occupational Safety - Develop the Supervisors
In today's episode, Dr. Ayers discusses developing supervisors on their role in keeping employees safe.
Aug 11, 2024 • 3min
Episode 171 - Occupational Safety - Don't lose emotional control
In today's episode, Dr. Ayers discusses why not to lose emotional control. Yelling and threats do not build a safety culture and will stop employees from bringing proactive hazard reduction/elimination solutions forward.
Aug 10, 2024 • 7min
Episode 170 - Narcotic Effects of Chemical Exposure
In today's episode, Dr. Ayers discusses narcotic effects of chemical exposure. Always eliminate, substitute or engineers out the hazard, then as a last resort use PPE.
Aug 7, 2024 • 5min
Episode 169 - Occupational Asthma
In today's episode, Dr. Ayers discusses Occupational Asthma. This is when employees have asthma-like symptoms and then they go away on weekends and holidays.
Aug 6, 2024 • 3min
Episode 168 - Eyewashes - Weekly or Monthly
In today's episode, Dr. Ayers talks about the importance of flushing eyewashes to ensure they are ready to go if an employee needs it.
Aug 3, 2024 • 30min
Episode 167 - Ken Barat - Introduction to Laser Safety
In today's episode, Dr. Ayers talks with Ken Barat about laser Safety. Ken explains the 4 classes of lasers along with engineering controls for safe use.
Aug 1, 2024 • 7min
Episode 166 - Housekeeping and Safety
In today's episode, Dr. Ayers discusses the correlation between housekeeping and safety. A clean workplace is a happy workplace.
Jul 28, 2024 • 4min
Episode 165 - Professional Development - Never Stop Learning
In today's episode, Dr. Ayers discusses personal development and the need to take charge of your own future. Never stop learning!
Jul 27, 2024 • 3min
Episode 164 - Do the Research Upfront to Understand the Hazards of Equipment
In today's episode, Dr. Ayers discusses and emphasizes the importance of understanding the equipment and engineer out any hazards.
Jul 23, 2024 • 4min
Episode 163 - Reduce Hazards by Severity and Consequences
In today's episode, Dr. Ayers discusses the importance of correcting hazards by level of severity and likelihood and not by who yells the loudest.
