PreAccident Investigation Podcast

Safety Moment - Goodness makes Greatness

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This is a discussion about how important it is to understand that the organization is made up of its people - we are our organization - and how we think about the world is how the organization is formed.
We are a product of good people - who make up great organizations.    This OE moment is a simple discussion of this very important value.
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PAPod 113 - How To Play BlackJack - Jim Barker

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Who would have ever imagined using BlackJack as a method to talk about Hollnagal's notion of ETTO?  The quick anwer to that question is James Barker.  Our friend Jim has graced the podcast several times and most often discusses the idea of complexity and the world of reliabiltiy.  Today he goes one step farther on this journey and talks about risk and complexity using BlackJack.
Complex systems are interdependant, interconnected, interrelated, and infinately possible...and so is BlackJack.  Give this one a listen - you will like it.
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Safety Moment - A Five Legged Dog

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This quick safety moment is a play on an old joke about a a question.  I like this moment a bunch because I love what this old joke does to people when you tell it to them.  This joke makes you think about how we determine what is real and what is not real.
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PAPod 112 - The Hotel Session - Todd goes to Disneyland

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In the midst of a complete computer melt down, Todd somehow squeezes out a little podcast that talks about one of the best instructional activities for teaching "Safety Differently" to a room full of leaders and managers who are trying to move thier thinking in a different directon.
Enjoy this podcast!  It is a very special episode.   You wont hear many like it.   I hope you learn something new.   Thanks for listening and tell your friends.  

Safety Moment - Acceptance is our Standard

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We can say we have rules.   
What matters is what we accept, not what we say.  What we will accept is our standard.  Peole with high-standards don't accept just any result.  Descerning what we want is fundamental to knowing what we will get.  
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PAPod 111 - How Manager's Should Think About PreJob Briefs

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Workers get the blunt of pretty much all the pre-job briefing discussions, training, responsibility, and accountabilty.  Workers do all the pre-job work - all the time.
But here is a question:  When is the last time a manager had to do a pre-job brief?  Would they be good at briefs like this?  Would these even work for the work they do?
It is NOT that we are ascribing pre-job briefs for managers (may not be a bad idea), but more that Marc Yeston talks about how managers should THINK about their responability for making pre-job briefs successful in thier organizations.   It is a good thing for us to think about.
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Safety Moment - Don't Wait for Failure

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If we want to understand how safety and reliability really works in our organizations we must not wait for our systems to fail.  We must understand how successful work happens every day, most of the time.  
As obivious as this is...I don't think we say this enough to our organizations.  Whatever you do, do it by understanding how work really happens.
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PAPod 110 - Investigations By Any Other Name - Scott Fillmon

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This episode of the PreAccident Podcast features Scott Fillmon.  Scott works with investigations in the transportation field and talks about the way he sees investigations as tools for improvement.  Scott brings a lifetime of experience in teaching investigators how to see the world around them - and how to catagorize this information in a way that becomes usefull.
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Safety Moment - A Celebration of Maintenance

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Let's face it....new is way sexier than old.  We love new stuff.  We love new construction, new buildings, new equipment, new computers.  We love all this stuff - sometimes - at the expense of maintaining the old.   That topic is what this podcast tries to discuss.
Maintenance is very important.  We have to value the men and women who do the heavy lifting everyday - keeping our facilities up and running.  
We must combat the "bias towards the new" in our thinking as well.  
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PAPod 109 - Breakfast in Beijing

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This weeks podcast is an interview done by the world famous Bob Edwards...and I do mean world famous.  Bob had a breakfast interview with Gary Tang, the owner of one of the largest EHS consultancies in China.  Gary was formally as Safety Person for GE...he saw an opportunity to get in to the EHS China market and took it.   He is a leading thinker in a huge market and he is doing well.  
Bob talked to Gary and his associates about the New View and Safety Differently.  It is a great conversation.  This is a world to watch.  Safety is only just beginning in this working world. 
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