The Real Reasons Your Safety Message Isn’t Sticking with Large and Complex Teams: Kate McGee’s Insights

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"If you're genuine about adhering to your code of ethics and applying that, you just try and find people of good character and good integrity." Kate McGee, Director of Health and Safety at Pennoni OK, everyone, this one’s for the leaders trying to scale safety across big, complex teams without adding layers of noise or bureaucracy. In this episode of The Canary Report: Safety & Risk Management , I sit down with Kate McGee , Director and Corporate Health and Safety Officer at Pennoni . We dig into what it really takes to keep a 1,400-person organisation aligned, aware, and engaged. Kate breaks down why cultural ownership will always outperform compliance checkboxes, how lean safety teams thrive when expectations are clear, and why smart engineers become your best problem-solvers when you give them the right context. If you’re growing fast, struggling with message dilution, or hiring for the next phase of your safety program, this conversation gives you the playbook.

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