Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchPAPod 593 - Young Voices, System Thinking: A Conversation on Safety with Mousa Yassin
Episode 958
Host Todd chats with Mousa Yassin about shifting safety culture from blaming individuals to designing systems that tolerate failure and recover quick…
2 months, 1 week ago
PAPod 592 - How a Near-Miss Sparked the Learning Team Movement
Episode 956
Todd Conklin tells the origin story of "learning teams," sparked by a self-reported near-miss at Los Alamos involving a postdoc and an arcing wrench.…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
PAPod 591 - Workers Are the Solution: A Conversation with Corey Pitzer
Episode 957
Todd Conklin talks with Corey Pitzer about fatality prevention, Human and Organizational Performance (HOP), and how safety thinking has shifted globa…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
PAPod 590 - Gird Your Loins: NASA, Risk, and the Return of Recrudescence
Episode 955
Todd interviews Professor David Woods about recent NASA mishaps and a growing cultural shift toward "cheaper, faster" decision-making that sacrifices…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
PAPod 589 - Failing Safely: Todd Conklin on Resilience, Recovery, and Real Work
Episode 954
In this episode, Todd Conklin joins Amir Shahzad to discuss human and organizational performance, resilience, and how to design systems that allow fa…
3 months ago
PAPod 588 - Weak Signals, Big Consequences: The RaDonda Story
Episode 953
Hosts Todd and Brent discuss an upcoming restorative workshop centered on RaDonda Vought's account of the Emory Hospital event. The episode highlight…
3 months, 1 week ago
PAPod 587 - Start in the Black: How Sleep Debt Impacts Safety
Episode 952
Host Todd Conklin interviews fatigue expert Mark Rosekind, PhD about his path from sleep research to roles at NASA, the NTSB, and NHTSA, and how slee…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
PAPod 586 - VUCA, Uncertainty, and the Case for Innovation
Episode 951
Todd Conklin discusses VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, Adaptation) and argues that innovation and safety improve when organizations embrac…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
PAPod 585 - When Safety Stalls: Who Will Reinvent the Field?
Episode 950
In this clip from the Pre‑Accident Investigation Podcast and Punk Rock Safety, Todd joins Ron, Ben, and David to debate why safety innovation is stal…
4 months ago
PAPod 584 - How Pediatric Hospitals Cut Fatal Extubations by 60% — 12,500 Lives Saved
Episode 949
This episode tells the real-life story of how the Society for Patient Safety and a network of children’s hospitals used learning teams, proactive saf…
4 months, 1 week ago