The Culturally Intelligent Safety Professional
The Culturally Intelligent Safety Professional
Podcast Description
In today’s multi-cultural organisations, cultural intelligence capabilities will be critical to enable health and safety practitioners and professionals to build interpersonal trust with members of the workforce. This podcast provides a platform whereby Safety Professionals can develop a pathway to enhance their cultural intelligence capability, helping them to function effectively when working in a multi-cultural situation.
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The podcast explores themes such as cultural intelligence, effective communication, and adaptive leadership with episodes dedicated to specific cultural perspectives like Māori and Pacifica communities. For instance, Episode 4 dives into the significance of Māori values in safety practices, while Episode 8 discusses storytelling as a vital tool for engaging with Pacific communities, and Episode 12 covers Mission Orientated Research in farming environments.
In today’s multi-cultural organisations, cultural intelligence capabilities will be critical to enable health and safety practitioners and professionals to build interpersonal trust with members of the workforce.
This podcast provides a platform whereby Safety Professionals can develop a pathway to enhance their cultural intelligence capability, helping them to function effectively when working in a multi-cultural situation.
This episode is a recorded version of my presentation at the 2026 HASANZ Conference held in Wellington New Zealand on 18th September at Tākina Wellington Convention Centre.
The presentation discusses Cultural Intelligence and the emerging PRISM Framework.
Three key points discussed in this session are;
How effectively we communicate, influence, lead and engage with the people we work alongside.
The PRISM framework introduces five dimensions that help us recognise patterns in how people approach authority, uncertainty, collaboration, decision-making and communication.
Encouragement to be curious, challenge our assumptions and deliberately adapt our approach rather than expecting everyone else to adapt to us.
So here's my challenge, the next safety problem you solve may not need another procedure, audit or KPI. It might simply require a better understanding of the people involved.
Thanks for listening to The Culturally Intelligent Safety Professional.
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