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Safe As Podcast — 107 episodes · page 1 of 2
108: Professor Robin Dillon-Merrill Part 2: Resilient Vs Vulnerable Near misses
E107: Skip-Order-Action Framework: Measuring Work-As-Done in the Field (HOP / Safety-II)
E106: Boeing 737 MAX Disaster: When High-Authority Systems Go "Strong, Silent, and Wrong"
E105: Does Fatigue Cause Attentional Blindness? (Quickisode)
E104: Professor Robin Dillon-Merrill Part 1: Near Misses & Confusing Luck with Resilience
E103: Does HOP Actually Work? Real Data From a 5-Year Study (Quickisode)
E102: Writing Better Safety Procedures Part 2: Rules vs Reality, WAI/WAD, Safety-II & Workarounds
E101: From Blame to Restorative Justice: A Just Culture Tool (HOP / Safety-II / New View)
E100: Dr Linda Bellamy Part 2: Fatal vs Minor hazards, SIFs & Barrier Failures
E99: 25 Questions for Better Incident Investigations | Safety-II / HOP
E98: Writing better procedures part 1: Action verbs, human factors & more
E97: Investigating when 'Nothing' Failed: a Safety-II/HOP debrief tool (Quickisode)
E96: Dr Linda Bellamy Part 1: Fatal vs Minor hazards, SIFs & Barrier Failures
E95: Critical Controls & Barriers - Part 4: What do barrier models leave out? A Safety-II critique
E94: Dr Marcin Nazaruk Part 2: HOP, New View, Learning from Daily Work
E93: Critical Controls & Barriers & Safeguard | Part 3: Human Factors & Human Performance
E92: Dr Marcin Nazaruk Part 1: HOP, New View, Learning from Daily Work
E91: Critical Controls & Barriers & Safeguards | Part 2: From paper to practice (e.g. bow-ties & more)
E90: Dr Guido Carim Jr Part 2
E89: Critical Controls, Barriers & Safeguards | Part 1: Definitions & Inconsistencies
E88: Dr Guido Carim Jr Part 1
E87: Risk Management vs. Rule Compliance: The False Choice
E86: CEO speeches: Talking Our Way to Disaster #DeepWaterHorizon #BP
E85:When Success Leads to Disaster: Practical Drift & the 1994 Black Hawk Friendly Fire Shootdown
E84: The pitfalls of safety reporting metrics and 'safewashing' our way to disaster
E83: Why Smart Managers Ignore Deadly Warning Signs: Gretley & Moura Mine Disasters
E82: Why Good Leaders Make Terrible Decisions (The Science of Bias)
E81: Is Safety Culture a Failed or Useful Concept for Organizations? A review of the Scientific Research
E80: Is Your Boss Just "Peacocking"? The Science of Leader Walkarounds
E79: AI Makes you Smarter but not Wiser: How AI affects your Cognition
E78: The most effective safety tactics according to science
E77: Behavior-based safety (BBS) - a balanced review of the science
E76: Dreamworld disaster and the pathways to failure
E75: Better indicators for your risk control system
E74: Zombie leadership - old ideas that refuse to die
E73: When business indicators become the problem
E72: Fatal Blind Spot: Why Leader Safety Walkarounds Failed Deepwater Horizon
E71: Leaders, schmeaders...the age of FOLLOWERSHIP is here
E70: Learning Teams: Why Blaming Staff Doesn't Make Workplaces Safer
E69: Precursors of SIFS & ineffective corrective actions
E68: Do warning signs work? A dive into the science
E67: Designing safer and healthier shift work systems/rosters
E66: Is AI BS'ing you?
E65: The use and abuse of safety indicators
E64: How can we move forward from notions of 'human error'?
E63: Should we, or even can we, analyse 'safety culture' in investigations?
E62: Types of error - error as cause, event, or harm
E61: Another deep dive on human performance in barrier systems
E60: Psychology of risk and motivating less risky decisions
E59: Predictors of the use of higher-order risk controls
E58: Diving into a process of Safety Decluttering
E57: Safety clutter - paper tigers and non-value adding work
E56: Walk-Through Talk-Through - a technique for learning about daily work and error traps
E55: Butt-covering paperwork & false safety
E54: Work-as-imagined, prescribed, disclosed and done
E53: Weak Controls. Repeat Deaths. The Brady review into mining fatalities
E52: Tapping into the semiotics of risk - workspace, headspace, groupspace
E51: The links between hazardous energy magnitude and injury severity
E50: Ed Schein's Humble Inquiry - “The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling” (quickisode)
E49: CEO-speak and the road to major disasters
E48: Blame fixes ... something ???
E47: Improving procedures via resilient skills - leveraging resilience engineering (quickisode)
E46: The Stuff That Kills People and weaknesses in Critical Control Programs
E45: Unpacking Officer Due Diligence based on a Maritime NZ prosecution
E44: Human-centred design - some terms from Don Norman (quickisode)
E43: How 'no blame' can potentially subvert learning and improvement
E42: The blindspots of incident reporting approaches
E41: Writing better procedures with the dark arts of human factors (quickisode)
E40: Types and mechanisms of investigator bias
E39: How biased are incident investigators?
E38: 4Ds - Dumb, Dangerous, Different, Difficult - for learning (quickisode)
E37: Psychological Safety - what is it good for? A meta-analysis of research
E36: How audits fail prior to major accidents
E35: Critical Steps for managing hazardous work (quickisode)
E34: The failure of critical controls in construction
EP33: Is ChatGPT bullsh** you? How Large Language models aim to be convincing rather than truthful
EP32: Navigating fatigue risk with the defences in depth approach
EP31: Do individual mental health interventions work? Maybe not
E30: A better way to think about procedures: resources for action
E29: Restorative Just Culture Checklist (quickisode)
E28: How language shapes blame in investigations
E27: Sleepy or Drunk - which is more dangerous?
E26: Risk Controls: Alternative Controls / Direct Controls (AC/DC) (Quickisode)
Ep 25: Do workers in high-risk industries use and value procedures?
E24: Are leadership styles scientifically valid?
E23: Safety-II inspired debriefs (Quickisode)
E22: Zombie ideas of leadership - time to exorcise the deceased concepts?
E21: Beyond the Hierarchy - Haddon's energy countermeasures (Quickisode)
E20: SMS certification and its impacts on safety performance
E19: Leadership for safety - silver bullet or hype?
E18: When Emotion Leads Risk - risk as feelings and not just numbers
E17: Critical Decisions & Local Rationality: Tools for making sense of situations
E16: Systems thinking and investigations
E15: Root Cause Analyses (RCA) and incident prevention: do they work?
Ep 14: Leadership walkarounds - ritualistic peacocking or solid trust building?
Ep 13: Do near misses increase risky decision making?
Ep 12: Human performance in barrier/critical control systems
Ep 11: The fault in our stats (incident measures)
Ep 10: Are safety myths holding us back?
Ep 9: How certified systems & auditing mask psychosocial issues