Safety And Risk Success

Bring the benefits of proactive safety and risk management to life, through insights, experiences and stories.Every week, host Christian Harris - the UK's leading slips, trips and falls specialist - presents a new episode, typically with expert guests, to discuss:- Safety- Health- Wellbeing- Insurance- Risk management- Claims defensibility

Safety And Risk Success is a business podcast hosted by Christian Harris, with 284 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Christian Harris hosts Safety And Risk Success, a business show with 284 episodes published.

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  Episode #284

  State of Safety 2026: Why the Biggest Risks Get the Least Attention

  Aug 14, 202648 min

  Christian Harris shares the results of the third annual State of Safety survey in this Safety Roundtable session. The data reveals a clear priority gap. Manual handling, slips and trips consistently cause the most harm, yet they rank far lower when it comes to management attention and resource. This episode covers the confidence gap between how safe organisations believe they are and how much they trust their own safety data, why testing for slip risk remains low despite 90% of respondents agreeing more could be done, the jump in safety technology adoption over the past year and why trust in AI still lags behind, and honest feedback from safety professionals on leadership, culture and change resistance. Get the full State of Safety Report: https://www.linkedin.com/smart-links/AQEqi546ov8yWg Ready to find out where your own risk really sits? Take the Slip Risk Scorecard .

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  Amar Shahzad: Rethinking Safety Metrics, Human Factors and the Future of the Profession

  Aug 7, 202647 min

  In this episode, Christian Harris speaks with Amar Shahzad, founder of the Occupational Health and Safety Institute Sweden and host of the Safety by Amar Shahzad podcast. Amar opens up about the workplace accident that first drew him into safety. He unpacks the difference between compliance and genuine understanding, and reflects on the mindset shifts that came from interviewing respected voices in the field, including Todd Conklin and Sidney Dekker. The episode explores why a good process can still end in a bad outcome, why lagging indicators alone do not capture the full picture, and what real engagement with frontline workers actually looks like. The pair close with a look at where safety is headed over the next decade, and the role AI is likely to play. Listen in for a grounded, practical discussion on human-centred safety, drawn from real experience across Pakistan, Qatar and Sweden. Find Amar Shahzad on LinkedIn and on YouTube at Safety by Amar Shahzad. This episode is brought to you by Slip Safety Services. Find out more, and get your copy of Slipology by Christian Harris.

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  Safety Roundtable: Building Culture Across a Contracted Workforce, with Wyatt

  Jul 31, 202650 min

  Christian Harris is joined by Wyatt, Avetta's 2026 Safety Professional of the Year, for a Safety Roundtable on building genuine safety culture across an interconnected workforce of direct staff, contractors and gig labour. They discuss why the newest or least familiar person on site often carries the most risk, why certain contracted staff can end up caught between two organisations without full support from either, and why so many safety metrics track activity rather than actual impact. Wyatt also shares practical examples, from a major transit project's contractual culture assessments to simple language changes that can either build or break a sense of shared team. Connect with Wyatt on LinkedIn: [ LinkedIn link ]

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  The Hidden Cost of Heat, with Anna Albright

  Jul 24, 202645 min

  In this episode, Christian Harris speaks with Anna Albright, founder of Klima, about the true cost of heat on worker safety and productivity. Anna shares the story of a delayed flight that revealed ground crews, not aircraft systems, were being grounded by extreme heat, and how that realisation led her to leave a career at J.P. Morgan and BCG to build a wearable cooling device for industrial workers. They discuss why global heat related productivity losses are estimated in the trillions, why current cooling solutions on the market fall short, and why Anna believes heat safety needs to be framed around return on investment rather than treated as a cost centre. Try the heat cost calculator: [ calculator link ] Connect with Anna Albright on LinkedIn: [ LinkedIn link ]

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  Safety Roundtable: The Safety Confidence Gap

  Jul 17, 202641 min

  In this Safety Roundtable session, Christian Harris explores what he calls the safety confidence gap. Early data from our State of Safety Survey shows 94% of respondents rate their safety performance as average or better, but only half are confident their risks are measured rather than assumed. Christian shares a case where a 91 year old fractured his hip in a Tesco store, resulting in a fine of nearly three quarters of a million pounds for systemic failings, alongside the BP Texas City disaster, a ketchup factory with a red floor, and NASA's approach to weak signals. Attendees Shona, Steve and Richard join the conversation with their own views on culture, process ownership and management training. Take the State of Safety Survey here: [survey link] Results will be discussed at the next Safety Roundtable in two weeks.

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