Safe As Podcast
By Ben Hutchinson
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Episodes: 84
Description
A podcast dedicated to the thrifty analysis of safety science, risk, systems, and performance research.
Jump onto SafetyInsights.Org for more research.
Intro/Output "Dark Synth Wave" by ElephantGreen (PixaBay.com)
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E84: The pitfalls of safety reporting metrics and 'safewashing' our way to disaster
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May 05, 2026 |
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E83: Why Smart Managers Ignore Deadly Warning Signs: Gretley & Moura Mine Disasters
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Apr 21, 2026 |
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E82: Why Good Leaders Make Terrible Decisions (The Science of Bias)
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Apr 14, 2026 |
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E81: Is Safety Culture a Failed or Useful Concept for Organizations? A review of the Scientific Research
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Apr 07, 2026 |
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E80: Is Your Boss Just "Peacocking"? The Science of Leader Walkarounds
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Mar 31, 2026 |
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E79: AI Makes you Smarter but not Wiser: How AI affects your Cognition
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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E78: The most effective safety tactics according to science
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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E77: Behavior-based safety (BBS) - a balanced review of the science
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Mar 08, 2026 |
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E76: Dreamworld disaster and the pathways to failure
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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E75: Better indicators for your risk control system
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Feb 24, 2026 |
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E74: Zombie leadership - old ideas that refuse to die
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Feb 17, 2026 |
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E73: When business indicators become the problem
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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E72: Fatal Blind Spot: Why Leader Safety Walkarounds Failed Deepwater Horizon
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Feb 04, 2026 |
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E71: Leaders, schmeaders...the age of FOLLOWERSHIP is here
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Jan 28, 2026 |
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E70: Learning Teams: Why Blaming Staff Doesn't Make Workplaces Safer
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Jan 25, 2026 |
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E69: Precursors of SIFS & ineffective corrective actions
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Jan 21, 2026 |
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E68: Do warning signs work? A dive into the science
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Jan 18, 2026 |
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E67: Designing safer and healthier shift work systems/rosters
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Jan 14, 2026 |
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E66: Is AI BS'ing you?
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Jan 11, 2026 |
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E65: The use and abuse of safety indicators
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Jan 04, 2026 |
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E64: How can we move forward from notions of 'human error'?
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Dec 14, 2025 |
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E63: Should we, or even can we, analyse 'safety culture' in investigations?
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Dec 07, 2025 |
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E62: Types of error - error as cause, event, or harm
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Dec 03, 2025 |
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E61: Another deep dive on human performance in barrier systems
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Nov 30, 2025 |
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E60: Psychology of risk and motivating less risky decisions
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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E59: Predictors of the use of higher-order risk controls
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Nov 23, 2025 |
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E58: Diving into a process of Safety Decluttering
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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E57: Safety clutter - paper tigers and non-value adding work
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Nov 16, 2025 |
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E56: Walk-Through Talk-Through - a technique for learning about daily work and error traps
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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E55: Butt-covering paperwork & false safety
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Nov 09, 2025 |
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E54: Work-as-imagined, prescribed, disclosed and done
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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E53: Weak Controls. Repeat Deaths. The Brady review into mining fatalities
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Nov 02, 2025 |
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E52: Tapping into the semiotics of risk - workspace, headspace, groupspace
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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E51: The links between hazardous energy magnitude and injury severity
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Oct 26, 2025 |
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E50: Ed Schein's Humble Inquiry - “The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling” (quickisode)
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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E49: CEO-speak and the road to major disasters
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Oct 19, 2025 |
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E48: Blame fixes ... something ???
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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E47: Improving procedures via resilient skills - leveraging resilience engineering (quickisode)
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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E46: The Stuff That Kills People and weaknesses in Critical Control Programs
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Oct 12, 2025 |
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E45: Unpacking Officer Due Diligence based on a Maritime NZ prosecution
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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E44: Human-centred design - some terms from Don Norman (quickisode)
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Oct 06, 2025 |
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E43: How 'no blame' can potentially subvert learning and improvement
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Oct 05, 2025 |
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E42: The blindspots of incident reporting approaches
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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E41: Writing better procedures with the dark arts of human factors (quickisode)
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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E40: Types and mechanisms of investigator bias
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Sep 28, 2025 |
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E39: How biased are incident investigators?
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Sep 24, 2025 |
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E38: 4Ds - Dumb, Dangerous, Different, Difficult - for learning (quickisode)
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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E37: Psychological Safety - what is it good for? A meta-analysis of research
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Sep 21, 2025 |
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E36: How audits fail prior to major accidents
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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E35: Critical Steps for managing hazardous work (quickisode)
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Sep 15, 2025 |
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E34: The failure of critical controls in construction
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Sep 14, 2025 |
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EP33: Is ChatGPT bullsh** you? How Large Language models aim to be convincing rather than truthful
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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EP32: Navigating fatigue risk with the defences in depth approach
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Sep 08, 2025 |
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EP31: Do individual mental health interventions work? Maybe not
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Sep 07, 2025 |
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E30: A better way to think about procedures: resources for action
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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E29: Restorative Just Culture Checklist (quickisode)
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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E28: How language shapes blame in investigations
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Aug 31, 2025 |
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E27: Sleepy or Drunk - which is more dangerous?
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Aug 27, 2025 |
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E26: Risk Controls: Alternative Controls / Direct Controls (AC/DC) (Quickisode)
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Aug 25, 2025 |
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Ep 25: Do workers in high-risk industries use and value procedures?
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Aug 24, 2025 |
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E24: Are leadership styles scientifically valid?
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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E23: Safety-II inspired debriefs (Quickisode)
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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E22: Zombie ideas of leadership - time to exorcise the deceased concepts?
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Aug 17, 2025 |
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E21: Beyond the Hierarchy - Haddon's energy countermeasures (Quickisode)
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Aug 14, 2025 |
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E20: SMS certification and its impacts on safety performance
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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E19: Leadership for safety - silver bullet or hype?
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Aug 10, 2025 |
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E18: When Emotion Leads Risk - risk as feelings and not just numbers
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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E17: Critical Decisions & Local Rationality: Tools for making sense of situations
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Aug 03, 2025 |
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E16: Systems thinking and investigations
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Jul 31, 2025 |
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E15: Root Cause Analyses (RCA) and incident prevention: do they work?
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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Ep 14: Leadership walkarounds - ritualistic peacocking or solid trust building?
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Jul 27, 2025 |
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Ep 13: Do near misses increase risky decision making?
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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Ep 12: Human performance in barrier/critical control systems
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Jul 20, 2025 |
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Ep 11: The fault in our stats (incident measures)
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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Ep 10: Are safety myths holding us back?
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Jul 13, 2025 |
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Ep 9: How certified systems & auditing mask psychosocial issues
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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Ep 8: The harm in zero harm
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Jul 06, 2025 |
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Ep 7: How investigations blind us to control effectiveness
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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Ep 6: Audit Masquerade - How audits provide comfort rather than treatment for serious safety problems
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Jun 29, 2025 |
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Ep 5: What you find in investigations isn't what you fix
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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Ep 4: The links between fatal and non-fatal accidents based on >23k incidents
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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Ep 3: Learning Teams vs Root Cause Analyses
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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Ep 2: Are the things that kill or maim us -- SIFS -- the same as the things that hurt us?
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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Ep 1: Do you trust your accident statistics? The extent of accident underreporting
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Jun 10, 2025 |