In this episode of Safety On The Edge Talks, host Corrie Pitzer, CEO of SafeMap and co-founder of Safety on the EDGE, sits down with Shannon Frattaroli. Shannon is a Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and leads the Center for Injury Research and Policy.
Together, they dive into the critical intersection of academic research and practical industry application. Shannon shares her expertise on taking a public health approach to injury prevention, aiming to systematically reduce the burden of injuries across populations. The conversation challenges traditional compliance-based industry metrics, exploring how organizations can move beyond lagging indicators to embrace prospective risk analysis and stop injuries before they happen.
Key Topics Discussed:
- The Public Health Lens: How viewing workplace safety through a broader public health perspective offers new frameworks, data sources, and approaches to problem-solving.
- Bridging the Gap: The powerful potential of partnering academia with industry to continuously evolve safety models and adapt to new workplace threats.
- Frontline Engagement: Why successful safety protocols must involve and explain changes to the frontline workers who are arguably the most invested in safety.
- Prospective Risk Measurement: Shifting the ultimate metric of success from simply counting injured workers to proactively identifying and mitigating high-risk situations.
- The Power of Champions: The crucial role that individual leaders and internal spokespersons play in advocating for risk attention and driving cultural change.
- The Future of Safety: How emerging tools like Artificial Intelligence will create tremendous efficiencies in cleaning and analyzing data to speed up safety research and interventions.
Join Us Live: Hear more from Shannon Frattaroli and other industry pioneers at the upcoming Safety on the Edge conference in Baltimore, May 4 to 7. Shannon will be a keynote speaker on Day 1, which will also be broadcast virtually to audiences across Latin America.