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Alanna Ball discusses the future of safety, emphasizing the need for integration into business operations and learning from both successes and failures.

In this episode of the Women in Safety Podcast, Alanna Ball reflects on where the profession is heading and what that means for the people working in it. Rather than calling for more paperwork, more programs, or more layers of safety activity, she makes the case for something much more useful. Safety needs to be woven into how organisations operate, how decisions are made, and how work is designed from the start. Alanna speaks about the shift from technical safety work to business leadership, and why strong safety professionals need more than compliance knowledge alone. She explores the value of learning not only from incidents and failures, but also from the moments where work went well, controls held up, and people adapted successfully. It is a thoughtful reminder that real progress in safety comes from understanding organisations, building confidence through experience, and staying connected to a community that helps you keep growing. ​ Episode Highlights Why the future of safety is tied to understanding how organisations really work The need to integrate safety into business operations, not treat it as a separate program How critical controls support more focused and…

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