PreAccident Investigation Podcast

Safety Moment - Transparency is the solution for complexity

Safety.  Safety Culture.  High Reliability.  Human Performance.  Safety Systems.  Safety Differently.  New View.  Highly Reliable, Robust System...All of these topics all are connected....by the complexity of the organizations in which we work.You don't simplify complexity - you make is visible.   Listen to this podcast episode and see what you think?Thanks for listening

PAPod 40 - Dr. Daved van Stralen on High Reliability

Workplace Safety, Safety Culture, High Reliability, Operational Excellence, Systems Resilience.What do all of these have in common?  More then you think.  Dr Daved van Stralen is a great voice in the world of highly reliable systems and organizations.  He has led conferences all over the world, he has written articles, he coaches people almost every friday...Why does he do it?  This episode will tell you a lot about his motivation and skills in this arena.This may very well be the perfect venue for Dave.  He is quick, smart, and pointed in how he describes what he is thinking about.  You will like this podcast much.  Listen for the expanding capacity idea.  This discussion, alone, is worth listening to this episode.Enjoy!

Safety Moment - People Stop and Problems Move On...

Safety Podcast, Velocity 2015 - New York, human performance, medical safety, high reliability.Time is important to safety.  We must learn to create time when we have events.  This episode discusses this very issue in an interesting way.  Enjoy and thanks for listening.

Safety Moment - Zero is the outcome - NOT THE PROCESS

I can't seem to get enough of the Zero Accident discussion.  I have it in my sleep.  I am constantly stopped on the street to talk about it.  Zero is on the side of every truck that comes to fix stuff in my office.   Zero, zero, zero, zero.   Enough already!This episode talks about Zero as a part of Workplace Safety, High Reliability, Safety Culture.   We are using zero wrong and it is making our organization more quiet and less safe.   Zero is the end product, not the way we do work.See what you think?   Give this a listen.

PAPod 39 - High Reliability, Safety, and Delivering Babies -Dr. Alan Frankfurt

Dr. Alan Frankfurt almost did not make this episode of the PreAccident Prevention Podcast.  Not because he had to step out to deliver a small, young life in to this crazy world - but because he is so humble about his role in understanding safety and reliability in healthcare that he did not think he had much to add to this discussion.You will soon see how wrong he was.Dr. Frankfurt is simply one of the best real-time practitioners of High Reliability I have ever spent time hanging out with.... he is fun, smart, and good at what he does.Do not miss this podcast.  Medial safety, patient safety, High Reliability in Hospitals are all topics Alan can speak with great knowledge and experience.

Safety Moment - Always Say Yes - Bill Rigot

Try this on for size?  Can we better manage safety, operational excellence, human performance, high reliability, and our organizations by simply saying yes - and not saying no "no."   Bill Rigot, our friend the genius investigator and reformed engineer (my words - not his), tells a story from his past about the importance of service, of saying yes, and doing good work. Give this a listen and enjoy.  It is a great safety moment.

PAPod 38 -The Todd Cast - Todd Hohn, UL Health and Safety

Meet Todd Hohn a close friend and associate of many, many years.  Todd has worked in health and safety for many years and in multiple industries.  You will notice I am using the words health and safety to describe his job.  That is because this pod cast is going to spend as much time talking about health as it does talking about safety.  Emphasizing the health part of health and safety is pretty unusual in our industry (and in this pod cast - which is a problem I am working hard to remedy).Todd is the Global Manager of Health and Safety for Underwriter's Laboratory UL.  This is a fun podcast that will take you on a journey around the intersection of worker heath and worker performance.  Enjoy this episode.   Thanks for listening and taking part in the PreAccident Podcast.  It is great to have you on the team.

Safety Moment - We Fail Safely

Here is a quick thought on how we don't control accidents (because they are accidents) but we do manage conditions that lead to consequences.  All of this happens because of a giant shift in thinking about failure.  We must learn to fail forward...fail safely.Think fall protection!  We don't manage the fall, we do manage the way the person lands.  That is the entire notion of this pod cast episode.  We fail safely.   We fail safely.  We fail safely.  If we don't fail safely, we fail safety.Thanks and tell your friends.  You make the pod cast go.

PAPod 9 - (Repeat by Request) Let's talk about COMPLEXITY and organizations with Jim Barker

This is a repeat - command performance - of Jim's earlier pod cast on complexity and organizations.  So many people have asked to listen to this one again.  I decided to repeat the post. Enjoy!  Safety, Human Performance and High Reliability have never sounded better as a response to complex organizations.Jim Barker has some great ideas about complexity and organizations.  Dr. Barker is on the leadership faculty at Dalhousie University and spends his time thinking about how organizations function in complex operational environments.  This conversation will both change your thinking and prepare you with ways to move further in understanding and managing workers in complex operations.  This conversation is the beginning of what I hope is many more conversations about "the motion of complexity."  Listen carefully to Jim's comments about workers knowing what to do now - and how the now is not the past or the future.  This is a great podcast.

PAPod 37 - Dr. Jim Joy - Critical Controls

Jim has worked for nearly 30 years in the Australian and Global minerals industry.  He was involved in early developments of mining risk management and from 1998 he was Professor and Director of the Minerals Industry Safety and Health Center at the University of Queensland.  Since September 2013, Jim has been self-employed, working for several clients including the International Council on Mining and Metals in the development of the new guide on Critical Control Management.I saw Jim present after me in Australia and knew I had to get this presentation for our pod cast.  I really am interested in the way Jim (and the industry) has taken a strong look at the connectivity between Critical Tasks and Critical Controls.Special thanks to the CME 2015 Safety & Health Conference for this little tidbit.  Enjoy and learn mucho!  Thanks for being a part of the New View of Safety, High Reliability, and Risk.  You make this pod cast a success.