PreAccident Investigation Podcast

Safety Moment - Even Good Systems Have Limits

Safety Podcast, Safety Program, Investigations, Human Performance, Safety Differently, Operational Excellence
The best systems in the world have limits.  The best systems in the world fail.  You cannot or will not ever make a system that will be perfect.  Stop thinking like that.  It makes you look dumb when something bad happens in your organization.
What you manage are the limits of the system.  What you manage are the margins.  What you manage is the systems ability to fail and not explode...
Thanks for listening.  Isn't this getting fun.  I love typing all of these notes - I am sure nobody reads them - but if you do and you send me an email.  I will talk about you on the podcast.  Thanks again!

PAPod 78 - Chaos Monkeys - Adrian Cockcroft

Safety Podcast, Safety Program, Investigations, Human Performance, Safety Differently, Operational Excellence
I could not wait for this podcast to hit the streets.  This podcast is thoughtful, smart, forward-looking, and super interesting.  In short, I love this episode.  Please meet Adrian Cockcroft...I will grab a bio...he's done everything.  Listen to this twice.   Thanks for being a part of the podcast.
Mr. Adrian Cockcroft has been a Technology Fellow at Battery Ventures since 2014. He joined the firm in 2013 and focuses on IT Infrastructure. Mr. Cockcroft advises Battery on technology trends and issues, help with deal sourcing and due-diligence and speak at events around the globe. He served as a Chief Architect and Director of Web Engineering at Netflix, Inc. He joined the Netflix in 2007. Mr. Cockcroft directed a team, and responsible for research and development of scalable personalized web architectures. Prior to Netflix, he joined eBay in 2004, where he initially worked in Operations Architecture, investigating new platforms and providing guidance to the capacity planning groups at eBay and PayPal. As a founding member of eBay Research Labs in 2005, Mr. Cockcroft helped define the initial strategy for the Labs and an Innovation Forum. Prior to eBay, he spent 16 years at Sun Microsystems, became a Distinguished Engineer in 1999, and served as Chief Architect and Product Boss for Sun's High Performance Technical Computing business Unit. During this time he also served as the on-site capacity planning consultant for the Salt Lake 2002 and Athens 2004 Olympic Games. He filed two patents on capacity planning techniques while at Sun, and four patents related to peer to peer marketplaces while at eBay. Mr. Cockcroft has consulted on architecture, scalability and performance for the Bebo.com social network, and is an advisory board member at Holocosmos. Mr. Cockcroft serves as Member of Advisory Board at Infovell, Inc. and DeepDyve, Inc. Mr. Cockcroft is best known as the author of four books including Sun Performance and Tuning (2 editions); Resource Management; and Capacity Planning for Internet Services. He was named one of the top leaders in Cloud Computing in 2011 and 2012 by SearchCloudComputing magazine. He graduated from The City University, London with a B.SC in Applied Physics and Electronics.  (Bloomberg)

Safety Moment - Cardinal Rules are not so Cardinal

Safety Podcast, Safety Program, Investigations, Human Performance, Safety Differently, Operational Excellence
What could be better then 8 or 9 or 6 very clear rules that must be followed?  It is brilliant!  It is so simple!  It makes safety easy for the workers - simple never break one of these rules and you will never have an accident.
Who the hell made that up?  That is not only naive and simple, but I think it actually makes management of reliable organizations difficult and unsuccessful.   
Perhaps we could use that same list to manage controls?  Now that makes more sense.   
Thanks for listening.   You make the podcast go.  Keep it up and tell your friends.

PAPod 77 - Expertise and Capacity - Hello Ron Gantt!

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Ron Gantt is the Vice President of SCM Safety. He has over 15 years of experience in the safety field. Ron has earned his Masters of Engineering in Advance Safety Engineering and Management and has an undergraduate degree in Psychology and Occupational Safety and Health. In addition to his academic achievements Ron is also a Certified Safety Professional, an Associate Risk Manager and a Certified Environmental, Safety, and Health Trainer. Ron was awarded the 2013 Rising Star of Safety from the National Safety Council and the Young Talent Participant from the Resilience Engineering Association in 2015. Ron specializes in working towards creating noticeable change in the safety field by working with clients to enhance their safety leadership, safety management systems, regulatory compliance and organizational learning. In his free time Ron enjoys spending time with his wife and their 4 dogs, watching movies and learning new things.

Safety Moment - Frequency and Severity

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What does the New View do?   We constantly are working at reducing the frequency and severity of events in our organizations.   It is as simple as that.
We don't reduce human error.  We really can't.
We don't write perfect procedures.  We don't know how.
We don't have perfect equipment.  That is not possible.
What we do is reduce the frequency and severity of events.   Thanks for listening.

PAPod 76 - It is not "If" but "When" - Steve Scott on Controls

Safety Podcast, Safety Program, Investigations, Human Performance, Safety Differently, Operational Excellence
This PreAccident Podcast is AMAZING.  Listen carefully to Steve Scott.  Steve is the International HP Advisor for a "major company."  Where he works is not nearly important and what he is doing and how he is thinking.  He is out on the edge of the conceptual struggle between prevention and response.
If you manage reliable operations - anywhere - you have to listen to this podcast.   I think this podcast will change the way you think about doing your work.  It is that good.
Thanks for listening to the podcast.   You make this podcast a success.

Safety Moment - On Probability

Safety Podcast, Safety Program, Investigations, Human Performance, Safety Differently, Operational Excellence
How much do you really know about probability?  Would you be angry if I told you that your stoplight chart to determine probability is wrong.  Events either happen or don't happen...there is no in-between...none, zero, nada, zip, zilch, nil, zero.   
All the time we spend guessing how likely it is an event will happen is not very valuable to our workers or our organization.  We know, and have known for a long time, that workers don't really accurately guess probability.   I think I am safe.  I am not sure you are safe.  Both ideas are wrong.
Listen and enjoy.  Thanks for listening to the podcast.  You are such a huge part of the success!!!  Thanks.

PAPod 75 - Simple, Complicated, and Complex - Ivan Pupilidy

Safety Podcast, Safety Program, Investigations, Human Performance, Safety Differently, Operational Excellence
OK...Hold on for this episode.  It is a great discussion about how organization's learn from themselves.  The most important thing we do is help translate our operational learnings in to operational success and Ivan is THE EXPERT in this world.  If you don't learn something from this podcast, there is no supper for you!!!
Ivan talks in his warm and friendly way about how we think about learning.   He makes a strong case that we have to understand what has happened in order to best understand how to learn.  HIs logic is smart, funny, and super effective.   
Thanks for listening.  Listen twice for sure!  This episode is sponsored by ULWHS.com.  Thanks!

Safety Moment - Rumble Strips

Safety Podcast, Safety Program, Investigations, Human Performance, Safety Differently, Operational Excellence
This safety moment is by request...no actually by about a million requests.  This is a whole safety moment on my personal favorite safeguard, barrier, defense, you name it.  This safety moment is about rumble strips.    
Rumble strips are an excellent way to talk about how must create and manage systems that don't deny human error.   We don't drive error out of our organizations.  We build error in to our systems and processes.  We build systems that are able to handle variability from human operators - because we constantly have variability from human operators.  
Thanks for listening to the podcast.  Tell your friends and use this and all the episodes to make the world a better place.   Thanks!

PAPod 74 - New View Safety - Senior Leaders Saga - Superior Industries

Safety Podcast, New Safety, Safety Learning, Human Performance, Safety II, Operational Learning
This episode is an interview with not one, but two Senior Managers who are in the process of moving their companies towards a new view of performance, safety, operations, and learning.
Meet Paul and Dave Schmidgall.  These guys openly and honestly talk about their journey at Superior Industries.  Bob Edwards did a great job getting this interview.  
Enjoy and learn from this.  It is great to hear these guys talk so openly about this work.  I learned much.  So will you.
This episode is sponsored by Safety On The Edge, Atlanta, GA, June 28, 2016