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Ever been told “Here’s the safety stuff—let us know if you see anything” and handed a role with no roadmap? We’ve been there. We break down a practical 90-day plan that turns uncertainty into clarity and pressure into trust, so you can lead safety that actually works on the floor and not just on paper.

We start by reframing the first month as your listening phase. Instead of racing to correct hazards, you walk the floor, shadow operators, and learn how the company really makes money. You’ll hear the questions that open doors—what usually goes wrong here, what happens when schedules slip, what a bad operational day looks like—and how to use intentional silence to uncover the unwritten rules that truly govern behavior. When your guidance respects production reality, people stop working around you and start working with you.

From days 31 to 60, we connect people, paperwork, and practice. Policies, procedures, training records, logs, and investigations matter only when they match the job as performed. We highlight friction over failure—ill-fitting PPE, slow procedures, misaligned training—and show how small, visible fixes build credibility faster than sweeping policy overhauls. Then in days 61 to 90, we focus your leadership on one meaningful priority: a serious risk or recurring problem that actually changes outcomes. You’ll hear how to co-create solutions with workers and supervisors, set clear non-negotiables without becoming the cop, and replace threats with predictable leadership that earns pull rather than pushback.

We also call out the silent killers of trust: trying to be liked, using OSHA as a weapon, correcting too fast, ignoring production pressure, and mistaking silence for agreement. By the end, you’ll have a simple, repeatable framework—listen, learn, lead—that helps people go home safe, day after day. If this guide helps you or someone on your team, subscribe, share it with a colleague, and leave a review to tell us the one priority you’re choosing for your next 90 days.

Hosted by: Joe Garcia, Safety Leader & Culture Advocate
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Safety on Purpose

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What if the reason you care so deeply about safety didn’t start on a job site, but at home? Joe opens up about growing up in the shadow of addiction, becoming the family protector before he had the words for it, and how that early vigilance turned into a calling. The journey moves from sales floors to factory floors to the safety director’s seat, revealing how skills like persuasion, trust-building, and systems thinking quietly prepared him to lead with empathy and clarity.

We dive into the difference between compliance theater and human-centered safety, and why culture beats policy when pressure hits. Joe shares how a layoff at forty cracked open the path to safety leadership, how walking 20 facilities taught him to see risk the way workers do, and why training became the craft that changed everything. Instead of telling people what to do, he learned to connect safety to the work they already take pride in—making it real, relevant, and repeatable. Along the way, we talk about burnout, boundaries, and the invisible weight protectors carry, and how faith stitched meaning through seasons that felt scattered.

This story challenges tired assumptions: safety isn’t checklists; it’s care. It’s about recognizing vulnerability, designing for how people actually work, and building programs that stick because they’re rooted in lived experience. If you’ve ever felt called to protect others, or if your past feels like a liability, you’ll hear a different truth: nothing was wasted. Pain, when understood, becomes purpose. Subscribe, share this with a fellow protector, and leave a review with your biggest takeaway—what shaped your why?

Hosted by: Joe Garcia, Safety Leader & Culture Advocate
New Episodes Every Other Tuesday
Safety on Purpose

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🔸 LinkedIn: Joe Garcia
🔸 Spotify | Apple | Podcasts: Search "Safety on Purpose"

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We look back at a year where safety became more human and useful, then map the practical shifts leaders and workers need in 2026. Clear priorities, simpler systems, and real trust move safety from a report to a relationship.

• Human-centered safety gains across fields
• Useful tech that reduces friction
• OSHA focus on heat, air quality, chemicals, noise, contractors
• Cultural lessons: over-communication, moments, standards, storytelling
• Worker priorities: clarity, support, realistic workloads, trust
• Leader moves for 2026: curiosity, simplify systems, daily presence, training, fatigue as operational risk
• 2026 trends: human performance, modernization, real-time data, ops integration, mental health core
• Podcast updates: field guests, full mentor moments, tactical scripts, community Q&A, Jan 20 relaunch, bi-weekly, new branding and potential video

We’re going to take a little time off for the holidays and then relaunch in 2026 on January 20th

Hosted by: Joe Garcia, Safety Leader & Culture Advocate
New Episodes Every Other Tuesday
Safety on Purpose

Follow & Connect:
🔸 Instagram: Instagram
🔸 LinkedIn: Joe Garcia
🔸 Spotify | Apple | Podcasts: Search "Safety on Purpose"