The Road Safety Podcast

The Road Safety Podcast

Welcome to The Road Safety Podcast, the podcast that keeps driving for work and how to manage risks, in the minds of people and businesses across Scotland. With your host, Dr Karen McDonnell - Occupational Safety and Health Policy Adviser at RoSPA. Our conversations will help you understand where driving for work sits within the Safe System approach. How can your business help reduce the number of people being killed or seriously injured on Scotland’s roads by 50% by 2030? Keep listening to find out. Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast so you don’t miss an episode - and we’d love it if you could leave a review. Produced by Fresh Air Production.

Episodes

March 31, 2024 11 mins

Hear more about the value that healthy and safe drivers add to an organisation in today’s episode of The Road Safety Podcast.

Our host, Dr Karen McDonnell - Occupational Safety and Health Policy Adviser at RoSPA, is joined by Fiona O’Donnell, who leads on driving related risk for Jacobs.

This ‘how to’ podcast is part of the work of the Scottish Occupational Road Safety Alliance project, funded by Transport Scotland and delivered by...

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Hear how important it is to reduce the risk of distraction in today’s episode of The Road Safety Podcast.

Our host, Dr Karen McDonnell - Occupational Safety and Health Policy Adviser at RoSPA, is joined by Fiona O’Donnell, who leads on driving related risk for Jacobs.

This ‘how to’ podcast is part of the work of the Scottish Occupational Road Safety Alliance project, funded by Transport Scotland and delivered by RoSPA, that contrib...

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March 17, 2024 10 mins

Find out more about why it’s so important to manage drink and drug driving within an overall strategy for managing driving risk, in today’s episode of The Road Safety Podcast.

Our host, Dr Karen McDonnell - Occupational Safety and Health Policy Adviser at RoSPA, is joined by Fiona O’Donnell, who leads on driving related risk for Jacobs.

This ‘how to’ podcast is part of the work of the Scottish Occupational Road Safety Alliance proj...

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March 10, 2024 10 mins

Find out more about why it’s so important to manage fatigue, in today’s episode of The Road Safety Podcast.

Our host, Dr Karen McDonnell - Occupational Safety and Health Policy Adviser at RoSPA, is joined by Fiona O’Donnell, who leads on driving related risk for Jacobs.

This ‘how to’ podcast is part of the work of the Scottish Occupational Road Safety Alliance project, funded by Transport Scotland and delivered by RoSPA, that contr...

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March 3, 2024 9 mins

Find out more about why seatbelts are so important in today’s episode of The Road Safety Podcast.

Our host, Dr Karen McDonnell - Occupational Safety and Health Policy Adviser at RoSPA, is joined by Fiona O’Donnell, who leads on driving related risk for Jacobs.

This ‘how to’ podcast is part of the work of the Scottish Occupational Road Safety Alliance project, funded by Transport Scotland and delivered by RoSPA, that contributes to ...

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February 25, 2024 11 mins

Hear how to manage speed and where it fits within an overall strategy for managing driving risk, in today’s episode of The Road Safety Podcast.

 

Our host, Dr Karen McDonnell - Occupational Safety and Health Policy Adviser at RoSPA, is joined by Fiona O’Donnell, who leads on driving related risk for Jacobs.

This ‘how to’ podcast is part of the work of the Scottish Occupational Road Safety Alliance project, funded by Transport Scotl...

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February 17, 2024 51 secs

Welcome to the third series of The Road Safety podcast, the podcast that keeps driving and riding for work and managing the risk in the minds of people and businesses across Scotland. 

Our host, Dr Karen McDonnell - Occupational Safety and Health Policy Adviser at RoSPA - is joined by Fiona O’Donnell, who leads on driving related risk for Jacobs.

This ‘how to’ podcast is part of the work of the Scottish Occupational Road Safety All...

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May 21, 2023 24 mins

Welcome to The Road Safety podcast, the podcast that keeps driving for work and how to manage risks, in the minds of people and businesses across Scotland.  

With your host, Dr Karen McDonnell - Occupational Safety and Health Policy Adviser at RoSPA.  

In this episode, we're discussing Electric Vehicles, and not only cars but also e-bikes and e-motorbikes, with Neil Swanson, Director at the Electric Vehicle Association Scotland ...

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May 14, 2023 19 mins

Welcome to The Road Safety podcast, the podcast that keeps driving for work and how to manage risks, in the minds of people and businesses across Scotland.  

With your host, Dr Karen McDonnell - Occupational Safety and Health Policy Adviser at RoSPA.  

In this episode, we're discussing the top five biggest driver behaviour issues, with Greg Burns, from Road Policing at Police Scotland. 

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May 7, 2023 22 mins

Welcome to The Road Safety podcast, the podcast that keeps driving for work and how to manage risks, in the minds of people and businesses across Scotland.  

With your host, Dr Karen McDonnell - Occupational Safety and Health Policy Adviser at RoSPA.  

In this episode, we're discussing how being part of the ScORSA network has helped one organisation think differently and manage the risk, with John Johnston, Senior HSE Adviser at Te...

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April 30, 2023 25 mins

Welcome to The Road Safety podcast, the podcast that keeps driving for work and how to manage risks, in the minds of people and businesses across Scotland.  

With your host, Dr Karen McDonnell - Occupational Safety and Health Policy Adviser at RoSPA.  

In this episode, we're discussing sleep, fatigue and those who drive and ride for work with Lisa Artis, Deputy CEO at The Sleep Charity. 

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April 23, 2023 16 mins

Welcome to The Road Safety podcast, the podcast that keeps driving for work and how to manage risks, in the minds of people and businesses across Scotland.  

With your host, Dr Karen McDonnell - Occupational Safety and Health Policy Adviser at RoSPA.  

In this episode, we're discussing older drivers with Rob Heard, Road Safety and Older Drivers Consultant at the Older Driver’s Forum. 

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April 16, 2023 13 mins

Welcome to The Road Safety podcast, the podcast that keeps driving for work and how to manage risks, in the minds of people and businesses across Scotland.  

With your host, Dr Karen McDonnell - Occupational Safety and Health Policy Adviser at RoSPA.  

In this episode, we're discussing 'Driver and Rider Training' with Allan Mauchline. 

Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast so you don’t miss an episode - and we’d love it if you c...

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April 9, 2023 19 mins

Welcome to The Road Safety podcast, the podcast that keeps driving for work and how to manage risks, in the minds of people and businesses across Scotland.  

With your host, Dr Karen McDonnell - Occupational Safety and Health Policy Adviser at RoSPA.  

In this episode, we're discussing the Gig Economy and those who drive and ride for work with Becky Guy, Road Safety Manager at the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents.

Don’...

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Welcome to the second series of The Road Safety podcast, the podcast that keeps driving and riding for work and managing the risk in the minds of people and businesses across Scotland. 

With your host, Dr Karen McDonnell - Occupational Safety and Health Policy Adviser at RoSPA.  

We’re back with a new series, because we all have a part to play in keeping ourselves and each other safe on the roads.

Our conversations will help you un...

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May 18, 2022 16 mins

Welcome to The Road Safety podcast, the podcast that keeps driving for work and how to manage risks, in the minds of people and businesses across Scotland.  

With your host, Dr Karen McDonnell - Occupational Safety and Health Policy Adviser at RoSPA.  

In this episode, we’re going to be discussing the ‘fatal four’.

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May 11, 2022 18 mins

Welcome to The Road Safety podcast, the podcast that keeps driving for work and how to manage risks, in the minds of people and businesses across Scotland.  

With your host, Dr Karen McDonnell - Occupational Safety and Health Policy Adviser at RoSPA.  

In this episode, we are exploring what actions organisations need to take, to close the loop and ensure the risks are being managed.

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May 4, 2022 14 mins

Welcome to The Road Safety podcast, the podcast that keeps driving for work and how to manage risks, in the minds of people and businesses across Scotland.  

With your host, Dr Karen McDonnell - Occupational Safety and Health Policy Adviser at RoSPA.  

In this episode, we are exploring what organisations need to ‘check’ to ensure the risks are being managed.

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April 27, 2022 10 mins

Welcome to The Road Safety podcast, the podcast that keeps driving for work and how to manage risks, in the minds of people and businesses across Scotland.  

With your host, Dr Karen McDonnell - Occupational Safety and Health Policy Adviser at RoSPA.  

In this episode, we are exploring what organisations need to ‘do’ to manage the risk.

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April 20, 2022 15 mins

Welcome to The Road Safety podcast, the podcast that keeps driving for work and how to manage risks, in the minds of people and businesses across Scotland.  

With your host, Dr Karen McDonnell - Occupational Safety and Health Policy Adviser at RoSPA.  

In this episode, we're discussing  the importance of managing occupational road risk, with Roger Bibbings MBE, who was RoSPA’s occupational safety...

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