The Safety Consultant Podcast

📄 Description / Show Notes
As safety professionals, we’re wired to look out for everyone else’s well-being — but when was the last time you checked in on your own mental health?
In this introspective episode, Sheldon opens up about the importance of taking care of your emotional and psychological safety, especially in a high-stress, high-responsibility field like EHS.
🎧 He challenges you to ask:
What are you doing for your mental health right now?
How are you managing burnout, isolation, or overwork?
Do you treat mental health as a compliance issue — or a culture issue?
From self-awareness to intentional self-care, this episode is a needed pause — a mental PPE check for those who often carry the weight for others.

It’s recordkeeping season—and that means opportunity. Sheldon breaks down exactly how EHS consultants can turn OSHA logs into paid engagements before the March 2 electronic submission deadline, including who must file, who’s exempt, and how to target high-hazard NAICS industries. You’ll get the outreach scripts, a free-audit offer structure (300/301/300A), and a pricing tactic anchored to real citation dollars—plus how to build a short course from OSHA’s recordkeeping directive (CPL 02-00-172) and 29 CFR 1904 so you can upsell audits and ongoing compliance support. If you want a fast, ethical way to help clients and grow revenue this month, start here

Psychological Safety in a Politically Divided Workplace
What if the biggest risk in your organization isn’t a missing procedure or a broken control—but the things people are afraid to say?
In this episode of The Safety Consultant Podcast, Sheldon Primus explores how political and ideological discord can quietly introduce psychological risk into the workplace. Drawing on recent research and real-world observations, Sheldon explains how distrust, self-censorship, and siloed communication create latent safety hazards that traditional safety systems often miss.
This conversation isn’t about debating politics—it’s about understanding how disagreement, when left unmanaged, leads to silence, broken information flow, and increased operational risk. You’ll learn how political tension can undermine psychological safety, weaken hazard reporting, and fracture safety culture from the inside out.
Sheldon also introduces a Learning Team–style approach to addressing sensitive workplace friction, offering practical ways organizations and consultants can surface hidden risks, rebuild trust, and keep critical safety conversations moving—without turning the workplace into a battleground.
Key takeaways include:
How political discord creates psychological hazards
Why silence is not harmony—it’s deferred risk
The connection between trust, psychological safety, and safety performance
How Learning Team principles can restore communication and visibility
If you care about safety culture, leadership, and real risk reduction, this is a conversation you don’t want to ignore.

Feeling capped in your EHS role? In this episode, Sheldon Primus breaks down Safety Consulting 101—a practical roadmap designed to help safety professionals transition into consulting without overwhelm or guesswork.
You’ll learn how to identify your best income lanes, build credibility that clients trust, choose a profitable niche, and package your expertise into clear, paid offers. This episode walks through the exact framework Sheldon teaches in his live workshop—focused on clarity, boundaries, and action.
If you’ve ever thought, “I know my stuff, but I don’t know how to turn this into a business,” this episode is your starting line.

Most proposals fight on price instead of value. In this episode, we flip the script: anchor your price to the real cost of non-compliance (penalties, repeat findings, injury costs), prove ROI on a single screen, and give buyers a simple plan they can approve fast. We cover the one-screen justification, how to pick the right leading metric, and common traps like vanity metrics and tool sprawl. Walk away with a week-one checklist, a reusable template, and a mini-course to make “no-brainer” proposals your default.