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Safe As Podcast
A podcast dedicated to the thrifty analysis of safety science, risk, systems, and performance research. Jump onto SafetyInsights.Org for more research. Intro/Output "Dark Synth Wave" by ElephantGreen (PixaBay.com)
Episodes
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E52: Tapping into the semiotics of risk - workspace, headspace, groupspace
How can we move beyond simple workplace hazards towards tackling risk from psychological and cultural cues in the workplace? Today we unpack Rob Long's…
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E51: The links between hazardous energy magnitude and injury severity
What are the links between the magnitude of the energy within hazard exposures on subsequent injury severity and death? Does more energy = higher chance of…
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E50: Ed Schein's Humble Inquiry - “The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling” (quickisode)
This quickisode unpacks Ed Schein's concept of Humble Inquiry - said to be the "gentle art of asking instead of telling". Source: Schein, E. H. (2013). Humble…
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E49: CEO-speak and the road to major disasters
What does the leadership language used by CEOs tell us about the priority and beliefs around safety and risk? This episode unpacks a study exploring the BP…
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E48: Blame fixes ... something ???
Does blame really solve nothing...or does it have some redeeming features? Source: van Mourik, O., Grohnert, T., & Gold, A. (2023). Mitigating work conditions…
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E47: Improving procedures via resilient skills - leveraging resilience engineering (quickisode)
This quickisode explores how resilience engineering - particularly enhancing resilient skills - can improve procedures. Source: Saurin, T. A., Wachs, P., &…
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E46: The Stuff That Kills People and weaknesses in Critical Control Programs
How do Critical Control programs succeed or fault and trip? And are CC observations calibrated to the actual things that kill or permanently injure people?…
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E45: Unpacking Officer Due Diligence based on a Maritime NZ prosecution
This episode unpacks findings from the recent Maritime NZ / Port of Auckland case, where a CEO was charged under due diligence offences. It offers an…
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E44: Human-centred design - some terms from Don Norman (quickisode)
This quickisode dives into some key human-centred design terms from the GOAT, Don Norman. The source is: Norman, D. (2013). The design of everyday things. More…
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E43: How 'no blame' can potentially subvert learning and improvement
Few would disagree that blame negatively impacts learning. However, can efforts to promote 'no blame' approaches also carry their own negative and unintended…
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E42: The blindspots of incident reporting approaches
Are our incident reporting systems providing accurate reflections of incidents and severity, or blinkered, highly selective views disconnected from actual…
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E41: Writing better procedures with the dark arts of human factors (quickisode)
How can we apply the dark arts of Human Factors to write better procedures? Let's find out. Today's source is: HPOG (2021). Best Practice in Procedure…
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E40: Types and mechanisms of investigator bias
What are the types and mechanisms of investigator bias, and what are some proposed debiasing methods and improvements? Today's article: MacLean, C. L. (2022)…
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E39: How biased are incident investigators?
Investigations are reputed to be 'fact finding' exercises: objective searches for facts and truth. How what role does investigator bias play in constructing…
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E38: 4Ds - Dumb, Dangerous, Different, Difficult - for learning (quickisode)
This quickisode unpacks the 4D method for learning: Dumb, Dangerous, Different, Difficult. The source is Sutton et al. 2023. 4Ds for HOP and Learning Teams: A…
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E37: Psychological Safety - what is it good for? A meta-analysis of research
Psychological safety has reached almost Deity levels. Every third business, HR or tech article and its dog seems to mention Psychological Safety. But what does…
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E36: How audits fail prior to major accidents
How do audits fail to avert major disasters? What do investigations after a major accident say about the performance, or failures, of audits? Today's article…
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E35: Critical Steps for managing hazardous work (quickisode)
Some task steps are so important, that marshal or exchange so much energy, that they must go right first time, every time. These are called Critical Steps…
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E34: The failure of critical controls in construction
How reliable are the critical controls within construction? Which critical controls fail, and how? Today's article is Selleck, R., Hassall, M., & Cattani, M…
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EP33: Is ChatGPT bullsh** you? How Large Language models aim to be convincing rather than truthful
Large Language Models, like ChatGPT, have amazing capabilities. But are their responses, aiming to be convincing human text, more indicative of BS? That is…
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EP32: Navigating fatigue risk with the defences in depth approach
This episode discusses Dawson & McCulloch's structured defences in depth approach to navigate occupational fatigue at different levels. Today's paper: Dawson…
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EP31: Do individual mental health interventions work? Maybe not
Do individual level mental health interventions, like personal resilience training, yoga, fruit bowls and training actually improve measures of mental health?…
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E30: A better way to think about procedures: resources for action
Do you see procedures as concrete actions that specify the one correct way of working, or more as resources to shape work and sensitise people to risk? Let's…
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E29: Restorative Just Culture Checklist (quickisode)
This quickisode jumps into Sidney Dekker's restorative just culture checklist - available on SafetyDifferently.Com More research at SafetyInsights.Org…
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E28: How language shapes blame in investigations
Does the language we use in investigations shape allocations of blame? Quite possibly. Today's study is from Vesel, C. (2020). Agentive language in accident…
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E27: Sleepy or Drunk - which is more dangerous?
Drink driving is a well-known risk, but how dangerous is fatigue impairment in comparison? What happens when mental performance is compared between fatigue…
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E26: Risk Controls: Alternative Controls / Direct Controls (AC/DC) (Quickisode)
Check out the Construction Safety Research Alliance's concept of AC/DC (alternative controls and direct controls). Let me know if it has helped you to target…
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Ep 25: Do workers in high-risk industries use and value procedures?
Are your safety procedures effective aids to help navigate safe and reliable work? Do you know? And, do your workers use and value those procedures? Today…
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E24: Are leadership styles scientifically valid?
We've all been told about the power of positive leadership, servant leadership etc. But what if much of what we believe about these styles is more of an…
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E23: Safety-II inspired debriefs (Quickisode)
Want to add a garnish of Safety-II inspired thinking into debriefs? Check out this 4 min quickisode. Today's article is: Bentley, S. K., McNamara, S…
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E22: Zombie ideas of leadership - time to exorcise the deceased concepts?
What if many of the ideas we cling to about leaders, are more zombie ideas - outdated concepts that refuse to die? What if some of these ideas are holding back…
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E21: Beyond the Hierarchy - Haddon's energy countermeasures (Quickisode)
This special quickisode unpacks Haddon's 10 energy countermeasures. This approach provides an alternative or compliment to the hierarchy of control, and…
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E20: SMS certification and its impacts on safety performance
We chase certifications, implement systems, but what impact are we really having on operational performance? Is achieving certification, like ISO 18001 or…
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E19: Leadership for safety - silver bullet or hype?
We often put leadership on a pedestal - the silver bullet for all organisational ills. But what does the evidence suggest? What influence does various aspects…
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E18: When Emotion Leads Risk - risk as feelings and not just numbers
Risk in safety is often framed in matrices as likelihood x consequences. It holds an allure of (semi)objectivity - the numbers are the numbers. But what is the…
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E17: Critical Decisions & Local Rationality: Tools for making sense of situations
Why did they do that, what an idiot! What if our inability to understand the apparent stupidity of an action, after the fact, is more an issue with us, than…
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E16: Systems thinking and investigations
Do construction investigations take broader systems perspectives of accident causation, or stuck in the mud focused on local factors, people and behaviour?…
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E15: Root Cause Analyses (RCA) and incident prevention: do they work?
Many organisations rely on their root cause analyses (RCA) to help learn about incidents, and, ideally, prevent incident reoccurrences. So the logic goes. But…
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Ep 14: Leadership walkarounds - ritualistic peacocking or solid trust building?
We've all heard about or been part of them - leader walkarounds. Are walkarounds backed by solid evidence - do they build break down silos, enhance trust, and…
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Ep 13: Do near misses increase risky decision making?
Conventional wisdom suggests investigating and circulating knowledge of near misses. These 'free lessons', so it goes, are supposed to help us learn without…
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Ep 12: Human performance in barrier/critical control systems
How do you consider the role of people within your barrier or critical control system - threat or adaptable strength? What are some fallacies of human…
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Ep 11: The fault in our stats (incident measures)
Are our use of reported injury measures, like TRIFR or LTIFR, 'good enough' representations, or beset with foundational statistical flaws? Today's report is…
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Ep 10: Are safety myths holding us back?
Are our safety myths--like most accidents being the result of human error--holding back genuine improvement within safety? Can myths like these actually hamper…
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Ep 9: How certified systems & auditing mask psychosocial issues
We design, implement and certify our safety systems with best intentions. We hope these systems help us to identify and address workplace hazards. However, is…
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Ep 8: The harm in zero harm
Is Zero Harm a laudable approach or a misdirection--an illusion--associated with higher fatality rates? This episode dives into the paper from: Sherratt, F., &…
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Ep 7: How investigations blind us to control effectiveness
Are our investigations blinded to the functioning and effectiveness of risk controls? Are our current approaches, and mental models about how safety events…
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Ep 6: Audit Masquerade - How audits provide comfort rather than treatment for serious safety problems
Are audits effective checks and verifications of our risk control systems? Are they diving deep into the functionality and effectiveness of systems and…
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Ep 5: What you find in investigations isn't what you fix
Conventional logic suggests that we fix the gaps that we find in investigations. But is this the case? Is the investigation process more a socially constructed…
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Ep 4: The links between fatal and non-fatal accidents based on >23k incidents
Is there a connection between fatal and non-fatal accidents, or is it a fallacy to focus on the minor potential events with the hope of managing the major…
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Ep 3: Learning Teams vs Root Cause Analyses
How well can Learning Teams function against more traditional Root Cause Analysis techniques? What things do they focus on, what fixes result from the learning…
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Ep 2: Are the things that kill or maim us -- SIFS -- the same as the things that hurt us?
Are the contributing and causal factors similar between Severe Incidents & Fatalities (SIFs) and non-fatal incidents? Will eliminating the minor potential…
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Ep 1: Do you trust your accident statistics? The extent of accident underreporting
Do you trust your accident statistics? Are they accurate reflections of reality, or dangerously misleading? In this episode, we explore the following study…