On this episode Ted and Barb welcome Richard Flynt, who has over 20 years of experience in the manufacture industry in environmental health and safety. He is currently EHS Manager at Lonza. In 17 years of working as a controls engineer at many different manufacturing plants across North America, he had to go through safety orientation many times. This experience made him realize that the training is the most powerful tool. According to Richard, working safely is a skill, and can be taught and developed just like any other job skill. People should be taught how and why they should work safely. They should learn how to determine and judge in their own heads the risk that’s involved in a particular activity and the reward that’s involved in it. It is not about a technical rule, it’s more about understanding what risk is, identifying and properly assessing the risk and developing safe habits.

Resources:

https://www.healthandsafetynow.com

Richard on LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-flynt-csp-cit-40836612

Richard’s email address:

rflynt78@gmail.com