EP. 125 Elevating Safety at Work/Prabha Nandagopal

EP. 125 Elevating Safety at Work/Prabha Nandagopal

From Business In Colour by Div Pillay & Sadhana Smiles

May 8, 2025 · 41 min · Season 5 · Episode 125

About this episode

The episode features an interview with Prabha Nandagopal discussing workplace safety and her advocacy for human rights.

In this episode, we connect with Prabha Nandagopal who is an award-winning human rights, discrimination lawyer and advocate, having worked for over 18 years in a variety of areas from business and human rights to asylum seeker and refugee policy. She is the founder of Elevate Consulting Partners and SafeSpace@elevate, which she established to support and strengthen the work of organisations committed to positive social change. In this episode, Sadhana and I talk to Prabha about her growing up years, her early influences in a gender equal home and being the only person of colour at school. We talk about key topics like psychosocial safety, positive duty, respect at work legislation, how immigration and the treatment of asylum seekers and refugees is used politically. We centre the conversation on Prabha’s work in the last 18 months to influence leaders in the board room and at executive tables to think proactively to prevent sexual harassment. We talk about the change in mindset, courageous actions, and committed investment that leaders need to protect workers today, to future proof safety. Please listen to and connect with the fierce and fabulous Prabha Nandagopal. See…

People in this episode

Hosts: Div Pillay, Sadhana Smiles

Guest: Prabha Nandagopal

Topics covered

  • workplace safety
  • human rights
  • sexual harassment prevention
  • leadership
  • social change

Keywords

  • psychosocial safety
  • gender equality
  • asylum seekers
  • refugee policy
  • respect at work legislation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Elevate Consulting Partners, SafeSpace@elevate

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