Building Safety Into Systems, Not Onto Schedules with John Kanyan

The Canary Report: Safety & Risk Management · Sep 10, 2026 · 28m

"Never be afraid of what the three most terrifying words in our business are: 'I don't know’. Because if you don't know, you can find out." - John Kanyan, Director EHS PepsiCo

Safety leadership is not about adding more rules to the schedule. It is about designing safety into the way work gets done. John Kanyan, Director of EHS at PepsiCo, brings more than 15 years of frontline experience across steel mills, power generation, manufacturing, and large-scale fleet operations to a conversation about making safety stick.

In this episode of The Canary Report, host Michael Zalle sits down with John…