The ATT Safety Leadership Podcast

The ATT Safety Leadership Podcast

Innovators in safety leadership exploring the big issues in workplace health, safety and wellbeing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episodes

Episode 16: Attracting young people into a career in rail

July 10, 2025 • 22 mins

In the second of our rail industry-focused episodes to celebrate 200 years of the modern railway, Active Training Team’s Director Adam Christopher explores the challenges and opportunities facing the UK rail industry as it looks to attract its future workforce. Speaking with young apprentices, site managers, and industry leaders at the Transpennine Route Upgrade project, the episode reveals how few young people are aware of careers...

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Episode 15: Railway 200 with Mike and Andrew Lamport

February 12, 2025 • 19 mins

In the first of our rail industry-focused episodes, Adam Christopher talks with Mike Lamport and his son Andrew, who work in the railway industry like generations of their family dating back to 1846. They discuss why they’re celebrating Railway 200 and being part of the rail family.


Brands/People References:

Railway 200 Campaign

National Skills Academy for Rail

Great British Railways / Transition Team

South Eastern Rail

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Episode 14: ATT in Scotland. Part 2, Faskally Safety Leadership Centre.

May 1, 2024 • 18 mins
‘Get Home Safe’ – behind the scenes at a new ATT immersive training centre. Director of Active Training Team (ATT) Adam Christopher takes a behind the scenes peek at Scottish and Southern Energy’s (SSE) new immersive Faskally Safety Leadership Centre in Perth. It’s a few weeks till the opening and staff from SSE and ATT are busy with final preparations.

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Episode 14: ATT in Scotland. Part 1, Pitlochry

May 1, 2024 • 19 mins
Ahead of the opening of a new ATT immersive training centre for SSE (Scottish + Southern Energy), Director at ATT Adam Christopher travels to the Pitlochry Dam and Visitor Centre where he meets Gillian O’Reilly, the Head of Heritage and Community Programmes for SSE. Gillian tells Adam about the history of hydropower in the area and why training centres have a long connection to SSE’s work in Perthshire.

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Episode 13: Leadership, communication and grace: on the EDI journey with Dr Ollie Folayan

September 21, 2023 • 19 mins
Dr Ollie Folayan is a chemical process engineer with Aberdeen-based consultancy Optimus and a visiting Professor at the University of Dundee. In 2007, he and his sister founded the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE-UK) to attract and retain BME talent into the industry. Ollie talks to ATT Director Adam Christopher about leadership, changing hearts and minds and his experience at Thrive.

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Episode 12: How are you feeling? How emotions can make safety lessons more memorable

July 20, 2023 • 17 mins
Adam visits UK Construction Week at the Excel Centre in London to talk to people in the industry about what safety means to them and how our emotions impact on our behaviour in the workplace and how we absorb and act on important safety lessons. Paul, a paver ground worker, believes there should be more care and consideration on site; Sarah Meek, Managing Director of the mental health charity Mates in Mind, thinks that when people ...

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Episode 11: How can story-telling help to keep us safe? The science behind active learning

April 20, 2023 • 14 mins
In this episode, we investigate why active learning might be a key resource for people in hazardous industries to retain vital information and stay safe. Adam speaks with Dr Natasha Sigala, Senior Lecturer in Neuroscience at the University of Sussex, about neurocognitive patterns and memory structures or, put more simply, how story-telling makes us remember better. https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p256526-natasha-sigala

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Episode 10, Part 2: Mental Health in construction – where’s the ‘joined-up’ thinking?

December 19, 2022 • 22 mins
ATT are back with part two of the discussion on construction's mental health crisis, this time focusing on tangible solutions offered by groundworker, mental health advocate and campaigner, Steve Kerslake, who shares his own experience of mental health issues, and Kerry McLeod from leading mental health charity, Mind.HSE's ‘Core Standards’ framework is suitable for employers of all sizes: https://www.hse.gov.uk/stress/mental-health...

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Episode 10, Part 1: Listen up! How culture in construction is costing workers’ lives

October 26, 2022 • 23 mins
Three-quarters of deaths by suicide in the UK are men; in the construction industry men are three times more likely to take their own lives than those working in other sectors*, in fact there is a higher rate of suicide in construction than any other UK industry. In the first of two episodes, ATT asks why poor mental health persists in the construction industry, who is responsible and what are employers doing to safeguard the wellb...

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Episode 9: Seen and heard - how workers are shaping hi-vis design

June 20, 2022 • 21 mins
What is hi-vis clothing for? Who needs to wear it? Why don’t people wear it? Self-confessed hi-vis geek Adam Christopher explores the social and psychological complexities of one of the simplest, but most effective health and safety measures to keep safe in high-risk work environments. Adam’s guests include Health, Safety and Wellbeing Director at Align, Neil Hancox, Civil Engineering Apprentice, Leena Begum and Constantine Martino...

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Episode 8, Part 2: Creating equal opportunities in construction for young and diverse people

September 28, 2021 • 25 mins
Young people account for nearly two-thirds of job losses* since the start of the pandemic, while a report published by the National Youth Agency and Youth Employment UK* demonstrated that “without a fundamental change in how young people are supported, far too many will be left behind”. We investigate the benefits of supporting disadvantaged young people into the construction and infrastructure industries and the potential impact o...

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Episode 8, Part 1: Young people in construction + renewables – what are the risks + benefits?

July 20, 2021 • 25 mins
With more young people and apprentices being encouraged to join the construction and infrastructure sectors, including via the Government Kickstart scheme, what are the safety implications? Research has shown that young workers (within the age group of 15 to 24 years) are 50% more likely to be involved in an accident at work, compared with the rest of the workforce. Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) found that a range of factors...

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Episode 7, Parts 1 & 2: Building the New Normal

May 5, 2020 • 26 mins
Active Training Team kick off Season 2 of their podcast with a special 2-part mini-pod feature that asks the question ‘what now?’ Recorded and produced remotely during coronavirus lockdown in late April 2020, ATT wonder what will be different for the world post pandemic. COVID-19 has exerted a tight grip on the world. We have been thrown into a surreal environment that we could never previously have imagined in our or even our chil...

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Episode 6: Tired to Death – why we need to talk about sleep and fatigue

August 29, 2019 • 27 mins
You’ve worked a 12-hour shift, been up all night with a new baby, and driven back to work to start it all again, grabbing an energy drink before you go on shift. That’s normal, that’s ok, everyone does it, life carries on…You’ve worked a 12-hour shift, slept fine for 8 hours, driven to work, stopped off for a pint before going back on shift. That’s not ok, that’s the way to endanger others and lose your job, with life-changing con...

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Episode 5: Women In Construction - Who benefits? What’s the point?

March 6, 2019 • 27 mins
The number of women in professional engineering roles has doubled in the past 5 years and they now constitute around 12% of the workforce*. But that figure drops off dramatically for skilled labour in the construction sector, and women are still very much in the minority on site. In this podcast, Adam Christopher hears about the significant challenges that three women in the construction industry have experienced – from lack of on-...

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Episode 4: ‘Sliding Door' moments – former miners reflect on life and death decisions

January 11, 2019 • 20 mins
ATT’s EPIC safety induction day for Tideway elicited an emotional reaction from a group of Yorkshire miners, now working as tunnellers on London’s £5 billion ‘Super Sewer’ project. Facilitator, Laura Forrest-Hay, was prompted to suggest they share their compelling stories with Adam Christopher. This episode is a powerful endorsement of Active Training Team’s commitment to creating realistic scenarios that reflect the real-life situ...

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Episode 3: An Interview with Kate Cairns - road safety campaigner and founder of See Me Save Me

October 19, 2018 • 42 mins
Thirty year-old Eilidh Cairns was killed in 2009 when she was struck from behind and crushed by a tipper lorry whilst cycling to work. The violent and shocking incident compelled her sister, Kate, to become a leading voice calling for construction logistic risk management and greater safety on our roads. Chartered Civil Engineer, Kate, familiar with on-site control of construction traffic, had to fight for a proper investigation –...

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Episode 2: Exposure to Danger - 'what makes us vulnerable on our roads?'

October 19, 2018 • 29 mins
Adam Christopher tackles the debate around vulnerable road users, and explores what is being done to help reduce the terrible statistics on fatalities when HGVs come into contact with cyclists and pedestrians. What responsibilities do drivers, cyclists, pedestrians, private motorists and professional drivers – and their employers – have? Someone with direct experience of the devastation caused by a fatal accident with an HGV is K...

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Episode 1: Wind Power Down Under

July 27, 2018 • 21 mins
Active Training Team Podcast - Episode 1: Wind Power Down Under

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