Safe, Efficient, Profitable: A Worker Safety Podcast
Joe and Jen Allen of Allen Safety LLC take their combined 40+ years of worker safety, OSHA, EPA, production, sanitation, and engineering experience in Manufacturing Plants including Harvest Plants/Packers, Case Readies and Further Processing Plants, Food Production Plants, Feed Mills, Grain Elevators, Bakeries, Farms, Feed Lots, and Petro-Chemical and bring you their top methods for identifying risk, preventing injuries, conquering the workload, auditing, managing emergencies and catastrophic events, and working through OSHA citations. They're breaking down real safety opportunities, safety citations, and emergency situations from real locations, and discussing realistic solutions that can actually be implement based on their personal experiences spending 40+ weeks in the field every year since 2001. Joe and Jen are using all of that experience to provide a fresh outlook on worker safety by providing honest, (no sponsors here!) and straight forward, easy to understand safety coaching with actionable guidance to move your safety program forward in a way that provides tangible results.
Safe, Efficient, Profitable: A Worker Safety Podcast
The Cost of Personal Agendas May Be Safety: BONUS Episode
This video is intended for educational purposes. Solutions offered are not designed to take the place of an attorney, career advisor, or medical professional, and should not be taken as legal, career, or medical advice. It is recommended that viewers consult a safety consultant, career advisor, medical provider or an occupational safety legal team as applicable to help navigate their specific circumstances.
Let's talk personal agendas as it relates to safety. So if this is the first time we're meeting, my name is Jen Allen and I am one of the owners of Allen Safety LLC and over the last almost 20 some odd years we have had the opportunity to meet people of all kinds in all walks of life, in the different training sessions and auditing and safety evaluations, all the things that we do. A lot of safety is actually evaluating and kind of trying to understand psychology of people, and one of the things that we kind of use to tease out some of that information is trying to understand if we're dealing with a personal agenda and so what that kind of looks like and what would be a trigger for me to be like huh, maybe I need to delve a little bit deeper here is if I see someone holding really steadfast to a specific idea and this specific idea is not something that this person is an end user for so they are not the end user and they have a very strong opinion about it and that opinion isn't resulting in a safer, more efficient, more effective, more productive outcome for my end user, I have questions. So when we're in charge of safety, our goal should always be increased safety, reduce risk, drive that down. We want to increase our efficiencies, get the most out of whatever we're doing. However, we're spending our money on a project, on whatever that looks like, and if we're not meeting those things and we're not holding onto this idea because it somehow benefits those areas or the end user in some way, I have questions, I have concerns.
Speaker 1:This is going to be a red flag for me to be looking a little bit deeper. Is this something that's systemic? Is there something else going on here? What is the agenda of why this is the sticking point for this individual? I need to spend a little bit more time either with this specific person to figure out what's happening here, spend some time trying to understand and allow them that opportunity to articulate why this is so important to them. Of course, it's always a positive thing to respectfully raise concerns, but if the thing that we're focusing on again, like I say, is not better for the end user and their strong opinions, this person isn't an end user. If any of those boxes are ticked, I've got questions, I've got concerns. It's a red flag and I need to look deeper.
Speaker 1:So, when you're considering changing the role of someone, or even during interviews, if you get a vibe or you ask questions and someone answers a certain way, or maybe this is just during performance reviews. I know some folks are doing performance reviews right now. Those would be things that I would look at and try and decide. Is there something kind of weird here that maybe we need to focus on? And if we find something, is it crossing into other areas where they're allowing personal emotions and personal agendas to get it in the way of what's actually best for the end user? And then we can kind of go from there as a management team.
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