

Health and Safety Conversations
Tom Bourne
Conversations centered on safety with interesting guests from a wide variety of industries. Taking safety topics and applying them to real workplaces with real people. Includes safety in all areas including community safety.
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Jan 22, 2024 • 42min
Ryan Alexiou
In the first episode of Season 4 we chat to the wonderful Ryan Alexiou.
Ryan brings extensive management experience gained over his fifteen year career in the construction industry. He is an experienced risk manager with strong commercial acumen and broad experience in a diversified range of industries, including private sector, and state and federal governments.
Ryan is the CEO of neXtrack, an integrated health software platform and was previously part of the Regional Executive team at Multiplex Constructions, a global construction firm with turnover in excess of $1b in Qld alone. Ryan is also a Director at ACRS, a global steel certificationauthority and is also a Director of football club Gold Coast United.
Thanks for listening. We have some great guests coming up in future pods so get ready to learn. Until next time, enjoy the rest of your week, and stay safe. https://plus.acast.com/s/health-and-safety-conversations.
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Jan 18, 2024 • 4min
AIHS Perth Safety Symposium Special Recordings - Adam Parsons
My friend in safety and all other things Adam Parsons shares a few minutes with us. Thanks for listening. We have some great guests coming up in future pods so get ready to learn. Until next time, enjoy the rest of your week, and stay safe. https://plus.acast.com/s/health-and-safety-conversations.
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Jan 17, 2024 • 7min
AIHS Perth Safety Symposium Special Recordings - David Woolage
Perths own Safety Differently Book Club founder and all round nice guy David Woolage kindly gives me a few minutes of his time for you. Thanks for listening. We have some great guests coming up in future pods so get ready to learn. Until next time, enjoy the rest of your week, and stay safe. https://plus.acast.com/s/health-and-safety-conversations.
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Jan 16, 2024 • 4min
AIHS Perth Safety Symposium Special Recordings - Ashleigh Hourigan
One of the nicest people you will ever meet and someone I am lucky to think of as a friend gives up a little of her time for you. Thanks for listening. We have some great guests coming up in future pods so get ready to learn. Until next time, enjoy the rest of your week, and stay safe. https://plus.acast.com/s/health-and-safety-conversations.
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Jan 15, 2024 • 4min
AIHS Perth Safety Symposium Special Recordings - Celia Antonovski
The honour of speaking with Celia Antonovsky for a few moments. Thanks for listening. We have some great guests coming up in future pods so get ready to learn. Until next time, enjoy the rest of your week, and stay safe. https://plus.acast.com/s/health-and-safety-conversations.
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Jan 14, 2024 • 5min
AIHS Perth Safety Symposium Special Recordings - Cam Stevens
A few minutes with the irrespresible Cam Stevens. Thanks for listening. We have some great guests coming up in future pods so get ready to learn. Until next time, enjoy the rest of your week, and stay safe. https://plus.acast.com/s/health-and-safety-conversations.
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Nov 27, 2023 • 16min
Season 3 Wrap Up & Review
A quick review of Season 3 from Karia & I and a little news about Season 4.
Thanks to everyone who made Season 3 such a success.
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year.
We look forward to you joining us next year for Season 4.
Thanks for listening. We have some great guests coming up in future pods so get ready to learn. Until next time, enjoy the rest of your week, and stay safe. https://plus.acast.com/s/health-and-safety-conversations.
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Nov 20, 2023 • 53min
Silicosis
In this episode we speak not to one guest but four.
Renee Carey from Curtin University
Peter Tighe from Asbestos Safety and Eradication Agency
Joanna McNeill who suffers from silicosis
Ross Sottile from Maurice Blackburn
I hope that this helps someone and perhaps makes others think about their workplace, their exposure and perhaps see a doctor if they have concerns.
Thanks for listening. We have some great guests coming up in future pods so get ready to learn. Until next time, enjoy the rest of your week, and stay safe. https://plus.acast.com/s/health-and-safety-conversations.
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Nov 15, 2023 • 47sec
Question of the Week Season 3 #21
What is the most effective way in staying up to date with safety information?
No poll this week but please leave a comment.
This concludes the last of regular programming for Season 3.
We hope you will join us next year for Season 4.
Thanks for listening. We have some great guests coming up in future pods so get ready to learn. Until next time, enjoy the rest of your week, and stay safe. https://plus.acast.com/s/health-and-safety-conversations.
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Nov 13, 2023 • 40min
James Wood & Michael Weston
On the last regular episdode for Season 3 we are blessed with James Wood and Michael Weston joining the conversation.
Both popular and professional safety real life experience speakers both have a message you will want to hear (and your people to hear).
Not one to be missed and a good way to end the season and the year.
Michael will live the rest of his life with an acquired brain injury (ABI) as a result of pushing his body to the point that it couldn’t go on.
A career of 20 years in heavy industry saw Michael rewarded with a leadership role, he not only had to ensure production, but he was responsible for other people. A normal 10 to 12 hour workday often dragged out to 14 and 16 hours, days off were spent answering phone calls from the site or ‘Catching up’ on work that just “Had” to be done.
Work/Life balance became Work/Work balance with a bit of life thrown in when it didn’t interfere with the job.
Something had to give, and it was Michael’s body. He walked out his front door not feeling quite right but knowing he had to get to work and he collapsed on his driveway and was found by his neighbor unconscious and not breathing. His head had fallen onto his chest and blocked the supply of oxygen to his brain.
Michael is now affected by; short term memory loss, impaired cognitive function, limited attention span, hypersensitivity to noise and bright light among other health and well-being impacts. Michael was diagnosed with an ABI, Anxiety, Depression and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
James Wood offers workplaces something different. He shares the story of his workplace accident! James made some wrong Choices and ended up in a wheelchair for the rest of his life!
James’ Safety Presentation has a long lasting and significant impact on the Choices you make.
James will share his message of ‘choice’, which he hopes will help other people to avoid the same mistakes he has made. James Wood made the wrong safety decision once and now he has to live with it for the rest of his life. As James puts it, ‘It was supposed to be a normal day, I got up, I went to work and went home 9 months later’.
Links from todays show.
Website: https://cnbsafe.com.au/
LinkedIn James Wood: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jameswoodsafetyspeaker/
Michael Weston: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelweston1/
Email: E - info@cnbsafe.com.au
Instagram Business - https://www.instagram.com/cnbsafe/
Thanks for listening. We have some great guests coming up in future pods so get ready to learn. Until next time, enjoy the rest of your week, and stay safe. https://plus.acast.com/s/health-and-safety-conversations.
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