In Conversation with The Safety Collaborators
Update: August 2025 by Karin
In Conversation with The Safety Collaborators is hosted by Karin Ovari, Leadership Coach, Facilitator, and Founder of Karin Ovari Limited.
Through candid conversations with leaders, practitioners, and thinkers, we explore leadership, communication, and safety culture in high-hazard industries. These discussions share practical insights, lessons learned, and strategies that help build trust, improve communication, and create safer, more effective teams.
Originally produced under Safety Collaborations Limited, the podcast now continues as part of Karin Ovari Limited. While we are not currently releasing new episodes, the entire library remains active — and the topics covered are just as relevant today as when they were recorded.
Whether you are tuning in for the first time or returning for another listen, you will find ideas you can apply immediately in your own leadership and safety culture journey. Learn more at https://karinovari.com.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 30 minutes
- Episodes
- 80
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2024
E019_Discover the Safety W.A.L.K. and Revolutionise your Workplace Safety
In this week’s episode, we introduce you to the Safety W.A.L.K. tool, a valuable resource for leaders to improve safety in their workplace.
The acronym stands for Watch, Ask, Listen and …
E018_Unlocking Your Potential: Mastering the 5 Principles of Human Performance - Part 3
Welcome to our latest podcast episode, where we delve into principles 4 and 5 of the Five Principles of Human Performance.
In principle 4, we explore how context influences behaviour and…
E017_Unlocking Your Potential: Mastering the 5 Principles of Human Performance - Part 2
In today’s episode, we start with two questions:
- Did he climb over the fence to drink, smoke, eat or have sex?
- Have you ever felt named, blamed or shamed and then retrained?
To understand …
E016_Unlocking Your Potential: Mastering the 5 Principles of Human Performance - Part 1
This is the first episode of a 3-part series where we explore The 5 Principles of Human Performance by Todd Conklin, which are:
- Error is normal - even the best people make mistakes
- Blame …
E015_New Year 2023, Safety Collaborators: Elevating Workplace Safety Through our Collaboration
In this podcast episode, Karin and Nuala discuss their plans for 2023, including their focus on promoting a more humanistic and caring approach to safety culture, introducing guest spea…
E014_What are Random Acts of Safety? Join the Mission
Have you ever helped someone or made a situation safe for the future of others?
For example, you might see trip hazards while on holiday and remove them, or pick up glass from the paveme…
E013_What is the connection between your safety culture and unwritten rules?
Unwritten Rules!
Have you ever wondered why things are done a certain way or how everyone else seems to know what is expected, even when there is no written rule or procedure?
They all …
E012_Looking at Behavioural Safety – how do the small actions matter?
What is the first impression someone is going to have when walking into your environment, wherever that is?
- What are they seeing?
- What are they feeling?
- What are they smelling?
When you…
E011_How team agreements can stop the busy-ness and improve your life
Today, we chat about the busyness that has taken over the world of work and just life in general, and ask the question:
How do people get anything done?
Meetings are being booked back-to-…
E010_Want to have healthy safety conversations? here are 10 tips
In today's episode, we chat about what makes healthy safety conversations. We share 10 tips to help you think about conversations as healthy or unhealthy (rather than positive or negati…
E009_Is there a negative side to your Site Safety Notice Board?
Today's topic/question is a provocative one.
What is the 'Site Safety Notice Board's negative impact? Does it encourage psychological safety?
We believe that, in principle, the intention…
E008_What is common sense anyway, and how do you spot it?
Today, we discuss what common sense is.
One gentler descriptor during our research was 'Common sense is a sound, practical judgment usually developed through life experience rather than…
E007_What is conversational waste and what can you do about it?
What is Conversational waste?
It is one of the most significant hidden costs to organisations and high performance. Conversational waste occurs when our conversations fail to generate t…
E006_Sharing a bit more - the 4 Stages of Psychological Safety
Today's episode is a solo episode as Nuala is busy as the lead coach on our project in Turkey, with rubbish internet connectivity. However, they [the project] recently reached a miles…
E005_How to be Considerate of Others and Help People feel Included
How do we make others feel included?
Today, we explore some tactical aspects of safety coaching and how we help people feel included in multinational environments. In other words, how do…
E004_A Day in the Life of an Offshore Safety Coach
Today, we thought we would talk about the day in the life of an offshore safety coach.
We strongly believe in the concepts of the remote and digital/virtual realm and their potential u…
E003_How to improve your safety culture through intercultural intelligence-part 3
We are living and working in an interculturally complex world. Often, challenges arise when we make assumptions that we all work, make decisions, communicate, share information, and com…
E002_How to improve your safety culture through intercultural intelligence-part 2
Welcome to this episode, the second in a three-part series on improving your safety culture through intercultural intelligence.
We are living and working in an interculturally complex wo…
E001_How to improve your safety culture through intercultural intelligence-part 1
Welcome to this episode, the first in a three-part series on improving your safety culture through intercultural intelligence.
We are living and working in an interculturally complex wor…
E000_Welcome to our Podcast - Hooray!
Welcome to our Podcast. It has been a long time coming, and we are so excited that it is finally here.
Our purpose in sharing this podcast is to have a chinwag (conversation) to help pe…