Safety Unpacked - Safety Clutter with Amy Morris
About this episode
Alanna Ball and Amy Morris discuss the concept of safety clutter and its impact on safety outcomes in the workplace.
In this episode of the Women in Safety podcast, Alanna Ball is joined by Amy Morris for a practical conversation about safety clutter and why more safety activity does not always mean better safety outcomes. Together, they unpack how excessive procedures, duplicated paperwork, and overcomplicated systems can quietly weaken trust, create confusion, and pull attention away from the work that actually keeps people safe. The discussion explores how safety clutter often builds over time through client requirements, compliance pressure, audits, and the habit of adding rather than reviewing. Amy shares why it is so important to question whether a task, document, or control genuinely supports safety, or whether it simply adds more weight to an already overloaded system. Episode highlights What safety clutter looks like in practice, including rules, documents, roles, and activities that do not improve safety Why safety clutter is often context-specific, especially in industries like construction How external pressures such as regulation, certification, and client demands contribute to overloaded safety systems The risks of over-prescriptive procedures, including worker mistrust and…
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