PAPod 59 - There are no easy answers to hard problems - Bill Rigot and Todd talk about investigations

Safety Podcast, Safety Program, Investigations, Human Performance, Safety Differently, Operational ExcellenceBill Rigot and Todd sit down to talk about investigations.  This topic has gotten a lot of interest and this is the first of a series of podcasts that will talk about investigating a failure.  During this conversation the idea that Occam's Razor might not be true in the new view.  More information, less overly-simplified information, is better.Investigations are an art form - not a science.  Talking about the art of investigation is probably the best way to understand investigations in Safety II - the new view.This podcast is sponsored by UL-WHS.  Go to UL-WHS.com for more information and to thank them.  Thank you for being a part of this podcast.  Can't do it without you!

Safety Moment - Death-Proof Cars?

Safety Podcast, Safety Moment, Operational Excellence, Safety, Human Performance, New View Safety, Safety IIVolvo announced last month that by the year 2020 it will be impossible to die in their sedans and cross-over vehicles.   That is a bold statement.   Could they be right?  Well, nobody had died in one of their vehicles since 2011...perhaps the question should be "have they done it already?"This safety moment challenges the way we are looking at Fatality and Serious Incident prevention.  I think we are looking at this problem wrong.  What do you think?Thanks for listening.  You make this podcast go.  Tell your friends.

PAPod 58 - Todd's Slovenia HRO Conference talk

Safety Podcast, Safety Differently, Safety Culture, Human Performance, High Reliability, SafetyLast year a meeting was held in Slovenia on High Reliability and New View Safety.  I was lucky enough to be invited to give a presentation at this meeting.  Our friend Jim Howe recorded the presentation and with much encouragement asked me to put it on the Podcast so you could hear it.  See what you think?Thanks for being a part of the podcast.  You are helping to make this podcast the fastest growing safety podcast on the web.This podcast is sponsored by UAWHS.com.  Visit their site and say thanks.

Safety Moment - Blame vs. Understanding

Safety Podcast, Safety Differently, New View Safety, Safety Culture, Operational Excellence, Safety Moment, Human Performance, SafetyAs amazing as this sounds, I think these two values (blame and understanding) are exact opposites.  In fact if you choose one of these - you cannot choose the other one.  You will have to decide for yourself if you think this idea is correct.One way to do that is to enjoy this weeks safety moment.  See what you think?Thanks for listening and being a part of the podcast.  You make the podcast go.

PAPod 57 - System Reliability - John Allspaw

Safety Podcast, Devops, Safety Culture, Safety Differently, Safety Leadership, New View Safety, Organizational Change, Operational Excellence, Safety, ReliabilitySo this podcast episode is one I have been looking forward to doing for almost a year.  When the podcast first started a person "tweeted" an episode on being wrong...and suddenly dozens of people were asking me about John Allspaw.  John has worked in systems operations for over fourteen years in biotech, government and online media. He started out tuning parallel clusters running vehicle crash simulations for the U.S. government, and then moved on to the Internet in 1997. He built the backing infrastructures at Salon.com, InfoWorld.com, Friendster, and Flickr. He is now the CTO at Etsy, and is the author of "The Art of Capacity Planning" and "Web Operations" published by O'Reilly. He speaks from time to time at conferences on topics related to web operations, operations and development culture, infrastructure, and capacity planning.He's a dad, guitarist, engineer, and wiseguy.  He is also a great podcast interview.  I bet you cannot listen to this episode with learning something new...come on!  Take the bet.  You know I am good for it.  I know you will love this episode.  Thanks for listening and tell your friends.  You are a a part of the fastest growing safety podcast on earth!This episode is sponsored by UA Workplace Health and Safety.  Learn more and thank them at UAWHS.comPS.  Hey John.  I play the guitar, you play the guitar, we should play guitar.

Safety Moment - DPO

Safety Podcast, Safety Culture, Safety Differently, Safety Leadership, New View Safety, Organizational Change, Operational Excellence, SafetyIf you don't have a DPO policy or process in your organization...get one!  This only makes you better, smarter, faster, stronger, thiner and sweeter.You need all of those things...Thanks for listening to the podcast.  You are making this the fastest growing safety podcast on the planet.   I could not do it without you.

PAPod 56 - Diabolical Change - Nicole Barrett

Safety Podcast, Safety Culture, Safety Differently, Safety Leadership, New View Safety, Organizational Change, Operational Excellence, SafetyLet me introduce Nicole Barrett.  She care a lot about safety and safety culture.  I like the way Nicole thinks about safety culture.  For too long safety culture has been a code word to blame the worker...and that simply is not true.  Nicole specialises in the area of safety culture. She designed and delivered a 3-year research program now recognised as leading practice in terms of method, rigor and value. The longitudinal studies contributed to targeted interventions and measurable performance improvements for the organisations. Nicole is passionate about learning. Her reputation is based on the ability to work from the conceptual through to solution design and delivery of quality outcomes. She integrates the theoretical with pragmatic yet robust interventions to bring about real transformation and business benefits.This episode is sponsored by UA Workplace Health and Safety.  Go to UAWHS.com to learn more and thank them.   Thank you for being a part of the podcast

Safety Moment - Three Competencies for Senior Leaders

Safety Podcast, Safety Training, Human Performance, Organizational Excellence, Safety Moment, Safety...There is an old joke...The absent-minded maestro was racing up New York’s Seventh Avenue to a rehearsal, when a stranger stopped him. “Pardon me,” he said, “can you tell me how to get to Carnegie Hall?”  “Yes,” answered the maestro breathlessly. “Practice!” The three things Senior Leaders need to practice - and we must make the space and skill to practice these three skills.Thanks for making the podcast a success.   You are the best.