The Uptime team participated in Active Training Team's (ATT) Thrive USA program launch, showcasing their revolutionary approach to safety training. Allen and Joel discuss ATT with Dermot Kerrigan, the company's director. Their immersive actor-led scenarios are transforming safety culture through emotional engagement, de-escalation tools, and a focus on safety leadership. Their innovative UK-based training model is being adapted for the U.S. market through Thrive USA, bringing their effective approach to the expanding wind industry in the States.



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Allen Hall: Welcome back to the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. I'm your host, Allen Hall. We all know the risks involved in our work, and all of us have participated in safety training. Recent serious accidents in the U. S. and abroad have placed a heavy toll on our industry, and I, like many others, have been concerned about a fall off in the effectiveness of safety training.



Thank you And the overall safety culture. This podcast is fundamentally about safety training, but not your average run of the mill safety training. Joel Saxon and I were invited by active training team, a UK based company to participate in their thrive USA training event. Our host was Dermot Kerrigan director at active training team.



The thrive USA event was held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was well attended by health and safety representatives from large wind OEMs, developers. and owners, and it was a full house. The training I experienced was markedly more impactful, relevant, and memorable than any safety program I've encountered in my career.



After the event, Joel and I sat down with the aforementioned Dermot Kerrigan of Active Training Team alongside Sara DaSilva, Deputy Project HSC Manager at Ørsted and Graeme Cooper, Global VP of Energy Transition with Jacobs to discuss how Active Training Team will change U. S. training methods, hopefully permanently.



Enjoy the show. We're in Boston, Massachusetts. Actually we're in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a lovely area. And we're here for one reason to participate in the Thrive USA training event, which is conducted by Active Training Team. And we have. Dermot Kerrigan, the director of Active Training Team, who has come all the way to America to train us Americans on how to do it right.



I wouldn't say that. Dermot you're making our podcast even more famous because you're the first guest we have on the you're the first guest that has an IMDB. Okay. Yes. Yes. Now you're going back a while. Because that's part of ATT. That there is an immersive experience that involves actors in the actual training scenarios.



It's live. It's immersive. It's wraparound. And that is the brilliance you have brought to safety training. And maybe the thing to do here is just to start off by describing what this training experience is.



Dermot Kerrigan: What is it? Any behavioral psychologist will tell you that if you want to reach someone's intellect, the best way to do that is via their emotions.



So put simply, if I can move you, I can make you think. So if you're trying to get someone to think about safety, their role in safety how their behavior influences other people, and actually it's individual behaviors that produces a culture. And a very good way to do that is by telling a story. And if you're trying to tell a really impactful story theater, film, or a combination of the two,