The Canary Report: Safety & Risk Management PODCAST
Hear real stories from trusted leaders in EHS & risk management. Your playbook for the future of safety starts here.
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The Canary Report
This is The Canary Report — the podcast for safety and risk leaders solving high-stakes problems in high-pressure environments.
We bring you sharp, actionable insights through expert interviews, real-world case studies, and bold conversations that blend safety tradition with tech-forward innovation. Listen in to ensure you are always the first to know, and the first to act, in a rapidly changing world.
Discover how Jim Ruggiero’s human-centered approach to construction safety uses trust, culture, and mental health awareness to move beyond compliance and protect workers.
How to scale your safety program through mentorship and professional development.
Mike Place shares how Dakota Supply Group scaled safety culture across 60+ locations by moving beyond compliance and focusing on the families waiting at home.
Learn how safety leaders can move beyond compliance and build a lasting safety culture rooted in employee ownership, risk awareness, and human behavior.
Learn how Scotts Miracle-Gro’s EHS leader transformed safety from reactive compliance into a proactive, human-centered strategy that reduced risk and protected 8,000 employees.
A conversation on fleet risk, distracted driving, and why strong safety culture matters more than policy alone when lives are on the line.
Tips on how to improve safety programs from Matt Shaffer of Vision Technologies.
Why the skills developed navigating disability may be the same ones that build great companies.
Prevention beats investigation: Why making life-saving vehicle tech standard saves lives and reduces risk.
Steve Davis discusses how to make safety programs truly stick.
Safety doesn’t work when it feels like enforcement. Learn how trust, hiring for personality, and human-centered leadership drive better safety outcomes.
Zero risk is a myth. Discover why smarter, human-centered safety systems are the real key to saving lives in high-risk industries.
Josh leads safety today, by walking the work, listening first, and earning trust before giving direction.
In the latest episode of The Canary Report: Safety & Risk Management, I sit down with David Payton, VP of EHS at TSC Construction, to unpack why that disconnect exists and why the issue isn’t a lack of safety effort. It’s the way safety is framed, positioned, and separated from operations.
This conversation is about what actually separates safety programs that look good from safety cultures that hold up when real-world pressure hits.
It's time to talk about why safety systems exist.
Tom Garske discusses how safety management is relationship management.
Sustainable Safety, Human Leadership, and the Power of Culture with Stew Murphy
Building Safety Cultures That Scale: How Pennoni’s Kate Redmond Turns Smart People into Safety Champions
This is a conversation about how you build a culture that people actually want to be part of and want to protect.
Matt Barnes discusses how he handle safety at MD&A
David shared how intentional leadership, disciplined practice, and human judgment are redefining what safety excellence actually looks like in the field, not on paper.
How clear communication saves lives.
In clean tech startups, safety isn’t just compliance; it’s a growth accelerator.
The safety mindset with Colby Davis
Redefining safety as the easy choice
Importance of psychological safety with Ecudemio Gutierrez
For safety leaders, Jeanne’s framework is a call to action: if your people don’t feel safe in their minds, they’ll never be fully safe in their work.
Safety isn’t only about preventing falls and injuries — it’s also about facing the mental health crisis on our job sites.
What does it take to turn safety from a checklist into a culture? For Blake Baldwin, the answer is in the design
