NEBOSH Social Purpose Podcast
The NEBOSH Social Purpose Podcast looks at the projects, partnerships and people working to improve occupational health, safety and wellbeing worldwide. Each episode features conversations with researchers, practitioners and project partners about the challenges they face and the lessons they learn. It highlights the impact being made through NEBOSH's Social Purpose programme and the wider effort to raise health and safety standards globally.
Episodes
Rethinking PPE for Women in the Workplace
In the fifth episode of the NEBOSH Social Purpose Podcast, Mariyah Mandhu and Joe Simpson are joined by Funmi Adegbola and Yvonne Adebola from SOWSHE-A to discuss PPE, women's safety and the workplace. Together they explore the experiences that first highlighted problems around PPE fit, comfort and usability for women, what their research revealed, and why these issues can have a significant i
Accessible Safety Training for Deaf Workers
In this fourth episode of the NEBOSH Social Purpose Podcast, Mariyah Mandhu and Joe Simpson are joined by Ken Kogei and Jedidah Wafula from Vital Signs Safety Foundation to discuss improving access to occupational safety and health training for Deaf and hard of hearing people in Kenya. Together they explore the barriers Deaf people can face when accessing safety information, how the project challe
Menopause, Mental Health and the Workplace
In the third episode of the NEBOSH Social Purpose Podcast, Mariyah Mandhu and Joe Simpson are joined by Victoria Brookbank from Minds That Work and Haley White from Menospace to discuss menopause, mental health and the workplace. Together they explore why the mental health impacts of perimenopause and menopause are often overlooked, the experiences and challenges shared by women through the MenoMi
From Research to Action: Improving Safety in Artisanal Mining
In the second episode of the NEBOSH Social Purpose Podcast, Mariyah Mandhu and Joe Simpson are joined by Nick Pahl from the Society of Occupational Medicine (SOM), Richard Heron from the International Occupational Medicine Society Collaborative (IOMSC), and Gavin Hilson from the University of Surrey to explore the realities of artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM). Together they discuss the occup
Introducing Social Purpose at NEBOSH
In the first episode of the NEBOSH Social Purpose Podcast, Mariyah Mandhu and Joe Simpson are joined by Laura Wise and Social Purpose Champions Eloise Byrne and Hannah Wilcox to discuss how Social Purpose became part of NEBOSH, how the programme has developed, and what has been learned along the way.Together they reflect on what makes Social Purpose different, projects and experiences that have st
