Safety Moment - Your Karma Ran Over My Dogma

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The biggest problem we have in making our system reliable is the bias we have that we know the answer...
When we think we know the answer we don't look at the problem.   The safety Pyramid is a great example of safety mythology becoming hardwired in to our safety thinking.  It is not right.  It is not empirical.  It is just made up - and yet I'll bet in your company there are folks right now who think that if they stop a first aid they will have stopped a fatality.  
Ahhhhhhh  Dogma.... the sweet belief that we have it right.  It totally gets in the way of thinking, learning, and changing.  
Happy Holidays and See you next year!

PAPod 102 - Christmas Greetings Podcast 2016

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This episode of the PreAccident Podcast is my audio Christmas Card to you.  Thanks for a great year!  More importantly, I wish to you and your familty, the very best Christmas wishes I could bring to your ears.  Please have a safe and happy holiday.  
Thanks for all you have done.  I look forward to a happy holiday season for myself and my family.  May we all get everything we need from this time of year!
Thanks and Merry Christmas!!!

Safety Moment - The Tragedy of the Commons

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Here is today's lesson in both sociology and economics.  
Enjoy and learn from this podcast.  It is really important.   
And when you listen to this podcast - think about the internet.  The internet is our public pasture in the middle of the town square.  Are we aware of the potential dangers that exist when we all use the commons for our own good.
This is a really important safety moment.  Listen Twice.
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PAPod 101 - DROPS! Meet Forrest Hester - The Man That Controls Gravity

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This episode of the podcast lets you meet Forrest Hestor, Electrician, Inventor, Husband, and Gravity Controller - you wait and see.  Forest is the force behind Tutus Dropped Object Prevetention Solutions.  
I met Forrest at a meeting and just got excited by his excitment and zeal for helping to find a solution to a really big problem in many industries.  He comes at this from the sharp end of the stick - a worker with a solution is a powerful force - and Forrest is a great example of how one man with passion just may change the world.  Enjoy this podcast.  It is really motivating.
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Safety Moment - Designing Systems that Support Their Own Self-Interests

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We don't design systems to support the continued use and joy of the system.  We have to make systems that we want to use because the system is constantly reinforcing itself.   We want a system that is not just efficient, but also enjoyable to use.  I know that sounds like something you would never say at work - at THAT IS THE POINT of this podcast.  We design systems to be fufill the self-interests of the organization, but not the system and users of the systems.
Thanks for listening to this episode.  You are the greatest.  I hope this podcast makes you want to listen to the next podcast - it is doesn't, I am not following my own advice.  Thanks!

PAPod 100 - Special 100th Episode!

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This episode is the 100th episode of the PreAccident Podcast is a selection of clips from the last 100 episode of the podcast.  These are simply a taste of the journey that we have been on for the last two years.  This has been a lot of fun.  Thank you for being a part of the podcast.  Thank you for your contributions to safety and reliability.  Thank you for your ideas about human performance and system stability.
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Safety Moment - Success is BEST when Shared!

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Your organization has waaaaaay more success then failure!!!!  You are always winning, to quote a recent election held somewhere in the world.  You have much success.
But success only matters when it is shared and learned.   We know that we are better when we talk about success.  This safety moment tackles that very issue.  You don't talk about safety success at all...and you should.
Thanks for being on this podcast with me.  It is just you and I.  We are the final two listeners and talkers and we only have each other.  We must make the best of it!
Talk about success.  Learn from success.  Be a Winner!

PAPod 99 - Sidney Dekker, Heaven, and a Trip to the USA

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99 episodes published.  Wow!  Can you believe it?  It seems like we just started this podcast and now we are going to climb over 100 episodes and 200,000 listens and growing.  It all seems amazing to me.   
This weeks episode is my friend Sidney Dekker!!!!   He talks about his new book, his newer book, and we end up thinking about doing a workshop or two in the USA.  You Have to Come to One!   
Safety and reliability are really interesting concepts and Sidney digs pretty deeply in to the thinking around these ideas.  Listen carefully - there is much in this episode for you to enjoy and learn.  
This episode is sponsored by ORCHSE.com.  Thanks to them for all they do for the world of safety.  Thanks to you as well.  You are the entire reason Sidney Dekker is on this podcast.  Keep doing what you are doing.  It makes a HUGE difference.

Safety Moment - If it is emotionally satisfying - Do the opposite

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This safety moment comes from a HR person who said she learned a long time ago that if punishment feels emotionally satisfying, punishment is not the right thing to do>
That made me start thinking about culture and justice and all the things that make up our constant struggle to make the world a better place.   We know that if we punish to make ourselves feel better about the organiztion that is the wrong thing to do.  I worry that much of what happens is that we make the worker the bad guy in order to shift blame away from who we are as an organization.  That can't be right.
Listen and see what you think!  Remember culture cannot be just - people must be just in order to make a just culture.   
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