Human-Centered Approach to Workplace Safety with Desai Link - 121
What if the biggest opportunity for learning in your organization is hiding inside your worst day? In this episode of the Leading Visionaries, host Anjel B. Hartwell sits down with Desai Link, safety leader, former lawyer, and author of Beyond the Incident. As the General Manager of Health and Safety for a commercial construction company in New Zealand and co-host of the Circus of Safety Podcast, Desai is reshaping how organizations approach workplace investigations.
Whether you lead a team or manage operations, this episode will challenge you to rethink how your organization learns from failure.
What You Will Learn
Why settling on “human error” is one of the most unsatisfying and incomplete conclusions in an investigation.
How legal principles of evidence can dramatically improve workplace incident investigations.
What it means to truly understand and test evidence rather than just collect documents.
Why every incident is a learning opportunity rather than simply a compliance exercise.
How interrogation, in its healthiest form, simply means asking better questions.
The difference between finding fault and uncovering causation.
How empathy and rigor can coexist in leadership.
Why understanding storytelling and narrative is essential to meaningful investigations.
How Desai’s transition from law to safety illustrates the power of cross-pollinating skills across industries.
What leaders must recognize about the moral imperative to make work safer for people.
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Resources
Be Heard by Millions and Live Your Destiny: A Creative Age Leader’s Guide to Speak, Sell, Serve & Succeed by Anjel B. Hartwell