PreAccident Investigation Podcast

PAPod 617 - Rome Wasn't Built at 8 a.m.: The Case Against Immediate Improvement

This episode argues that meaningful improvement rarely happens overnight. Big-bang rollouts and sudden change cause chaos, bugs, and unintended consequences, while slow,

PAPod 616 - OSHA’s New Playbook: From Enforcement to Partnership

In this episode Todd Conklin talks with David Keeling, Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health, about OSHA’s shift toward partnership, refreshing

PAPod 615 - Leaders First: Why Safety Starts at the Top

Todd joins James Newman and Ken Madsen on a special excerpt from the Counter-Errorism podcast to discuss productive safety, leadership change, and how investigations shou

PAPod 614 - Accountability Labs: Learning to Have Each Other’s Back

Todd Conklin hosts Jen Long on the Pre-Accident Investigation Podcast to introduce "accountability labs": practical, small-group exercises that help teams practice having

PAPod 613 - Don't Shoot the Dog: A Song for Safer Workplaces

Host Todd talks with safety professional and singer-songwriter Toni Vere about human and organizational performance (HOP), accountability, and the power of fixing systems

PAPod 612 - Speak Up or Stay Silent: Amy Edmondson on Psychological Safety

Host Todd Conklin chats with Harvard’s Amy Edmondson about psychological safety, learning from failure, and how leaders can create workplaces where people speak up and le

PAPod 611 - Command–Adapt Paradox: Rethinking Safety for a Riskier World - David Woods - PART TWO

Part two of a deep conversation with Professor David Woods examines five decades of safety practice and argues for a stronger science base, foresight, and continual revit

PAPod 610 - Rock the Boat: Reimagining Safety Science with Dr. David Woods PART ONE

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PAPod 609 - Ra Donda Brings Us Up to Speed on Her Effort to Change the World

Join Ra Donda Vought and Todd Conklin and they meet up to discuss how Ra Donda has refined her message to the world and how surprised she is in other, non-medical industr

PAPod 608 - Modern Safety: How Children's Hospitals Are Rewriting the Rules

Join Todd and Dr. Anne Lynne from the CHOL conference as they explore “modern safety” in children’s hospitals and the SPS mission — how new lenses on risk, leadership beh

PAPod 607 - Croquet Mallets & Outlaws: My Family’s Bonnie and Clyde Encounter

Host Todd interviews his mother, Gyla Conklin, who recounts a true 1933 encounter when her father, Bill Brock, and friends were held up by Bonnie and Clyde near Meade, Ka

PAPod 606 - At the Cusp: How Leadership, Compassion and Worker Voice Are Rewriting Safety

Todd Conklin talks with Rob Fisher about how leadership, workforce shifts and compassion are reshaping safety and reliability. They explore why organizations must move fr

PAPod 605 - When a Meeting Becomes an Emergency: Restoring the Room

This episode recounts a medical emergency that occurred during a large conference and explains how a quick critical incident stress debrief helped restore the group and t

PAPod 604 - On the Edge: Risks, Resilience, and Red Bull’s Adventure Athlete

Host Todd Conklin interviews Red Bull athlete Will Gadd about adventure sports, recent tragic incidents (a parachute crash in Butler, Mo., a Moab base-jump, and a bungee

PAPod 603 - Procedures: The Double-Edged Sword of Safety

In this episode Todd Conklin explores the paradox of procedures: they keep work stable but also limit flexibility. He explains how procedures can be both necessary and co

PAPod 602 - From Brazil with Safety: Gilval and the New View Revolution

Todd Conklin talks with Gilval Menezes about Brazil’s growing movement to adopt the New View of safety: translating resources into Portuguese, building community, publish

PAPod 601 - Rethinking Safety: AI, Pre-Jobs, and the Power of Listening

Todd chats with Ron Gantt about the future of safety — from AI-driven pre-task tools to the limits of rote checklists — and why listening to frontline workers matters mor

PAPod 600 - The Future of Safety: Learning Teams, Storytelling, and Not-Knowing

In this part two conversation, Todd Conklin and Bob Edwards explore what the future holds for operational learning and safety. They discuss learning teams, storytelling,

PAPod 599 - Learn Like Bob: How Pediatric Teams Saved 30,000 Babies

Todd Conklin and Bob Edwards discuss Solutions for Patient Safety (SPS), a grassroots movement of learning teams that used operational learning to dramatically reduce har

PAPod 598 - What If Risk Never Leaves? Exploring Transportable Hazards

In this episode, Todd Conklin questions whether risk can ever truly be removed or if it simply moves around. He distinguishes between hazards and risk, discusses how orga