PreAccident Investigation Podcast

Safety Moment - Instructions for Building Trust

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Remember these words:  Lather, Rinse, Repeat.
Trust is given freely until it must be earned.   This little discussion talks about that very issue...we trust people until they give us a reason to not trust them.
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PAPod 83 - Andrea Baker - New View Practitioner - Europe and Beyond

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Andrea is a New View teacher, practitioner, guide, leader, and student - all at the same time - and she does it in about 10 languages.  I could not wait to talk to her about her journey and what she is constantly learning and teaching.  
If you are an "APPLIED USER" of the new view....this episode is just for you.  You can't not learn a bunch about what we do.   She is great and fun.  I liked this podcast a bunch!
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Safety Moment - Rewarding A while hoping for B

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In 1995, Steven Kerr wrote an article that has become a "standard" in the business executive reading list.  It is a great little discussion about how we create incentives in our worlds.
He starts we the idea that our systems our "Fouled Up."  I think he is right on target.  We reward something while expecting other things...and we do it all the time.  Listen to this and see what you think?
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PAPod 82 - Hampton Sides - One of my favorite Authors

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This episode is like a big dish of ice cream.  It has no safety-nutritiional value, but it is super fun to enjoy.
HAMPTON SIDES is best-known for his gripping non-fiction adventure stories set in war or depicting epic expeditions of discovery and exploration. He is the author of the bestselling histories Ghost Soldiers, Blood and Thunder, Hellhound On His Trail, and, most recently, In the Kingdom of Ice, which recounts the heroic polar voyage of the U.S.S. Jeannette during the Gilded Age.
Hampton is editor-at-large for Outside and a frequent contributor to National Geographic and other magazines. His journalistic work, collected in numerous published anthologies, has been twice nominated for National Magazine Awards for feature writing.
His book, Hellhound On His Trail (Doubleday, April 2010), is about the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. and the international manhunt for assassin James Earl Ray. The book was the basis for the acclaimed documentary, Roads to Memphis (on the PBS show, The American Experience), for which Hampton served as historical consultant.

Safety Moment - Signal Strength

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Everything is about signal strength.  A cross-walk that is too short to make it all the way across the road has bad signal strength.   A door that pushes when it looks like it should pull has poor signal strength.  A light-switch that is in an odd place had unusual signal strength.  Everything is about signal strength.
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PAPod 81 - Bob Nelms - Failsafe Networks and RCA

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Bob is a degreed Aerospace Engineer, having graduated from Texas A&M University in 1970. He worked at McDonnell Douglas as an Aeronautical Loads Engineer on the F4 Phantom Fighter until 1973, then became employed at Allied Chemical's Nylon plant in Chesterfield, Virginia --an internationally recognized leader in Manufacturing Reliability at the time. Nelms eventually became part of Allied's Corporate Reliability Center, where he concentrated his attention on Failure Analysis until the Center was disbanded in 1986 -- whence he formed Failsafe.
 
His professional work initially focused on the physical causes of machinery failure. He developed an expertise in experimental stress analysis, including strain gage and photoelasticity studies. He also became involved in probabilistic reliability studies, including Weibull and other statistical analysis methods. But his passion emerged when it became obvious to him that human beings cause all physical failure. Since 1996, Bob has devoted most of his time trying to clarify the sensitive human issues at the root of all failure.
 

Safety Moment - Tell Safety Success Stories - Talk about safety that works!

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We all have fallen for this trap.  We talk about the stuff that is bad.  We present accidents and near misses in the hopes that workers will learn and be better...in a way we want to deter your accident by scaring you with someone else's accident.  It does not really work, but hey when has that ever stopped us.  Bet you a dollar you can find Heinrich's Pyramid someplace in your plant - worse yet - I'll bet you can find somebody that believes if you have 300 sprained ankles the nest event will be a death.
Let's talk about what works.  Let's talk about where our safety programs and controls are working.  Let's tell stories of how we are getting better and better.  Let's talk about where we have failed safely.
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PAPod 80 - David Woods: A Scholar Looks Ahead - Part 2

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OK Stop... if you have not heard PAPod 79 go back and listen now.  The background will make PAPod 80 sing like a beautiful opera singer...and make the world a better place.
This is the look ahead from David Woods.  This is the best discussion of the idea of "Graceful Extensibility" I have ever heard.  You will love it.  
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Safety Moment - Stop Work Authority is a Prevention Tool NOT a Barrier

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This will not make me popular...but dammit, I am right on this one.  We have to stop thinking about the "Stop Work Authority" we all give our workers like it is some kind of control or barrier.  IT IS NOT!!!
At best it is a prevention tool, but mostly it is used retrospectively to blame workers for failing to stop.
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PAPod 79 - David Woods: The History of the New View - Part 1

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This is part one of a two-part episode.  This is an interview with David Woods, The Ohio State University and father in some (or much) parts of the contemporary New View.  I adore this man on so many levels and so will you - I promise - love him.
This podcast will talk about the early days and the early thinking of how this move towards the new view happened.  It is smart and short, fast and deep, and most of all fun and interesting.
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