Safety Programs Shouldn’t Grow Into Monsters

Joe Gilliland is Head of HSE at Sanofi US, one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies, with 25 years of HSE experience. He’s spent his career figuring out what makes safety programs simple, effective, and human across fields and departments.

In this episode of the Field Intelligence podcast, Joe walks through what most safety leaders get wrong about metrics and explains how AI is uncovering patterns that HSE teams have been missing for decades.

In the conversation:

• What makes a safety work site.
• Why “300 days without an injury” has failed to predict the disasters.
• How frontline workers are caught in system failures.
• The “add one, remove two” rule that balances safety programs.