{"id":4597,"date":"2019-08-12T06:39:21","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T06:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ohsleaders.com\/?p=4597"},"modified":"2019-12-04T06:19:06","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T06:19:06","slug":"interview-paul-gooch-cgb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusnetwork.co\/ohsleaders.com\/interview-paul-gooch-cgb\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Paul Gooch from Consolidated Grain &amp; Barge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/paul-gooch-mba-csp-2a34551b\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4645 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/focusnetwork.co\/ohsleaders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2019\/08\/Paul-Gooch-Headshot.jpg.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"330\" \/>Paul Gooch<\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">has 22 years\u2019 experience in safety and also has experience working in public transportation, trucking, construction, and the grain industry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Paul is currently the Safety Director for Consolidated Grain &amp; Barge and has been with the company for 9 nine years.\u00a0 He has two direct reports and six indirect reports.\u00a0 The company has about 110 locations, mainly in the central US.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Interviewer: &#8220;What do you feel are the biggest challenges safety leaders are currently faced with within their business?&#8221;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Paul: &#8220;Speaking for the competitive construction industry, the top three (3) would be; first, resources, followed by resources, with resources being a close third.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Interviewer: &#8220;As a safety leader, what do you feel businesses continue to get wrong when it comes to their Health and Safety strategy?&#8221;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Paul: Unknowingly and unintentionally reinforcing the wrong behaviors. For example, recently we had a manager visit a project and was pleasantly surprised to find all the work was proceeding ahead of schedule. The manager treated the employees to a lunch off site praising them for their efforts and told them resoundingly and in no uncertain terms, \u201cWhatever you are doing, keep it up!\u201d.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Unfortunately, the crew was limiting their breaktimes to keep ahead of the schedule. As the weather changed from warm to hot, the crew, reinforced by the managers praise, continue to maintain the pace.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>On one of the warmest days of the year, one of the employees became dehydrated and began to show signs of heat stress. Fortunately, the other crew members were able to quickly provide cooling and first aid and prevent a serious health issue.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Interviewer: &#8220;What are the latest trends and behaviours you predict will be surfacing on the market over the coming 12 months?&#8221;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Paul: &#8220;Rethinking of the traditional observation and feedback processes to include less structure and more conversation to uncover organizational, process and system weaknesses, a\u00a0resurgence in focus group based cultural assessments over the current \u201csurveys\u201d to allow for probing questioning, and more technology based tools for millennials.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Interviewer: &#8220;What is the best piece of advice you have received within your job over the years?&#8221;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Paul: \u201cDon\u2019t do this as a job, do it because you care!\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Interviewer: &#8220;What is one key takeaway you hope audience from the<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/focusnetwork.co\/ohsleaders.com\/\">EHS Leaders Summit USA<\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">leaves with after hearing your presentation on site?&#8221;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Paul: &#8220;Safety is about people.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cgb.com\/\">Consolidated Grain &amp; Barge<\/a><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">CGB has been an innovative and progressive leader in the grain and transportation industries since 1970, when it began modestly in a small office in St. Louis, Missouri with\u00a0three employees. Today, CGB operates a global enterprise with over 2,500 employees overseeing a diverse family of businesses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The company provides an array of services for grain farmers, from buying, storing, selling and shipping of the crop, to financing and risk management. 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