The ATT Safety Leadership Podcast

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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