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
Mentioned books
Sep 1, 2024 • 3min
Episode 177 - Occupational Safety - Obsess over Culture
In today's episode, Dr. Ayers talks about obsessing when creating a safety system and ensuring the safety system does not revolve around you.
Aug 18, 2024 • 2min
Episode 175 - Occupational Safety - Don't Avoid the Tough Talks
In today's episode, Dr. Ayers discusses having tough talks with management and employees. Don't put off these tough talks, it never gets easier if you give it a few days.
Aug 18, 2024 • 4min
Episode 174 - Occupational Safety - Clear Communications
In today's episode, Dr. Ayers talks about clear communications with the workforce and management about safety. Stress clear communications with management.
Aug 15, 2024 • 29min
Episode 173 - Dr. Daniel Snyder - Occupational Safety and Ethics
In today's episode, Dr. Ayers discusses the confluence of occupational safety and ethics with Dr. Daniel Snyder. Dr. Snyder has extensively studied ethics and gives the listener a very good introduction into occupational safety and ethics.
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.
