Safety’s Hidden Front Door: Jacqueline Handy on the Career Nobody Knows Exists
Jacqueline Handy explains how she fell into safety from a marketing role, sharing lessons from New York City transit and construction on training new hires, earning trust in the field, mentorship, and why more people should know safety is a career.
Safety Is a Value, Not a Priority: Bill Hart on Why That Distinction Matters
Bill Hart explains why safety should be treated as a value, not a priority, sharing lessons from decades in mining on safety leadership, workplace culture, risk, and protecting workers.
Blame Is a Dead End: Michael Bassey on Where Accountability Actually Sits
Michael’s argument is that accountability and blame are not the same thing, and that treating them as interchangeable is what keeps organizations stuck. People make mistakes. The question is whether the system was built to absorb them, and whether leaders held to the standards they set for everyone else. He walks through the connection directly, from a meeting that starts fifteen minutes late without an apology, to the PPE that stops going on properly downstairs, to the investigation that writes it all up as a frontline failure.
