Making Safety Personal: Bridget Todd on Building a People-First Safety Culture

What does it mean to truly make safety personal? In this episode of The Safety Heroes Podcast, Bridget Todd, Global Head of Enterprise Health & Safety at Baker Hughes, shares how safety isn’t just about compliance—it’s about people, families, and the real-life impact of every workplace decision.

Bridget discusses the ‘Make Safety Personal’ initiative, a campaign designed to reinforce that safety is about who you go home to at the end of the day. She highlights how emotional connections, storytelling, and leadership commitment can drive engagement in ways that traditional training often fails to achieve.

The conversation explores leadership’s role in fostering psychological safety, how to build a strong Stop Work culture, and why great safety leaders embrace ‘chronic unease’—constantly questioning what risks might be going unnoticed. Bridget also discusses the evolving role of technology in safety and how organizations can balance innovation with frontline adoption.

She shares a deeply personal moment that changed her perspective on safety forever—a reminder that behind every job is a life that must be protected.

• 0:00 - Making Safety Personal: Bridget Todd on Building a People-First Safety Culture

• 1:34 - Meet Bridget Todd: A journey in HSE leadership

• 4:14 - The Importance of Safety culture and chronic unease

• 6:11 - The impact of family on safety perspectives - "Make Safety Personal" campaign

• 13:59 - Empowering employees and the 'Safe to Start' initiative

• 20:40 - Mental health, wellbeing, and learning from incidents

• 32:26 - Closing thoughts on embracing change

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