Implementing Safety: Effecting Change at Your Organization

Episode 131

Implementing Safety: Effecting Change at Your Organization

Change is scary, it invites in the unknown leading to uncertainty, anxiety and stress. Despite how it makes you feel, however, change is bound to happen.

  • By Sydny Shepard
  • Mar 14, 2022

A challenging responsibility safety professionals have is implementing a smooth transition between an existing program or routine and a new one. Creating and effecting change can be the most difficult thing to do if you are working with a team that doesn’t understand why the transition is necessary.


In this podcast episode, Editor Sydny Shepard discusses some of the risks that change brings to the workplace, what to do before you ever even make the change, and at the end we will talk through some tips for a smooth transition.

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About the Author

Sydny Shepard is the former editor of Occupational Health & Safety.

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