Jacqueline Handy took a marketing job at a construction safety firm in New York City and had no idea what site safety was. Then she sat through her first board meeting, watched a room of tradesmen in Timbs and jeans start talking about projects and plans and mechanisms in words she'd never heard, and decided that was where she wanted to be.That was the front door. Almost nobody walks through the one you'd expect.She's now Manager of Environment, Health & Safety at Haugland Group, with an MBA, a master's in occupational safety and health, a stack of credentials, and a PhD in progress. In this conversation she walks through the path — the MTA subway system, the years of night classes, the certification that actually moved her career — and gets specific about the craft. Why her training room walls are covered in photographs of her own company's job sites. Why she'd rather let a tradesperson teach her their job than pull rank. What happened when she walked down to a flagger the crew had given up on and just let him talk.And the part she keeps coming back to: she speaks at career days where people tell her they had no idea safety was a career at all.Links: LinkedIn: / jacquelinehandymba Haugland Group: https://hauglandgroup.us/ASSP Hudson River Valley Chapter: https://hudsonrivervalley.assp.org/NAWIC: https://www.nawic.orgNontraditional Employment for Women: https://www.new-nyc.org/All episodes: https://bissafety.ca/safety-spotlight...Want to be a guest? Apply through the link above.
