In this episode, Mary Conquest speaks with Simon Whiteley, a system safety engineering and accident analysis specialist who helps organizations uncover critical safety issues.

Traditional safety approaches often focus on events and failures, but Simon explains how system safety engineering takes a different approach. It changes the emphasis to look at how systems are controlled to identify a wider range of potential weaknesses, including more subtle factors that get overlooked.

He reveals that you can actually have ‘dangerous successes’ - where systems work exactly as planned, but a specific situation or context could lead to an unintended outcome.

A key part of system safety engineering is the advanced analysis tools used by practitioners, and Simon expertly guides listeners through STAMP-based safety assessment approaches, CAST accident analysis, and STPA hazard analysis.

This insightful conversation gives EHS professionals a new perspective on managing controls, assessing risk and preventing future safety incidents.

Learn more about Simon’s work: Whiteley Aerospace Safety Engineering & Management

Simon’s YouTube channel: Whiteley-Safety

STAMP/STPA/CAST Case Study Workshop: Workshop Waitlist

Simon Whiteley on LinkedIn: Simon P P Whiteley | LinkedIn

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In this episode, Mary Conquest speaks with Adam Johns, a risk consultant with Marsh (the global insurance broker), who brings extensive experience from aviation and rail, where he strengthened systems and cultures in safety-critical environments.

Are safety practitioners learning enough from other industries, or are they generally operating within their own sector’s traditional boundaries?

Adam explores how the profession could improve by looking beyond their own industries, including using the underutilized lever of insurance.

He shares many practical approaches to enhancing workplace safety, including: prioritizing the safety of work over safety work, creating just cultures, using language that encourages curiosity rather than judgement, and rethinking the measurement of safety.

This generous and valuable conversation even finishes with Adam sharing an underutilized gift EHS professionals could potentially access to significantly increase their ability to keep workers safe.

Online resources recommended by Adam:

Safety and Risk Management | Energy Institute

Aviation Safety Experts - Flight Safety Foundation

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Books that Adam recommends:

Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World: Amazon.com: McChrystal, General Stanley, Silverman, David, Collins, Tantum, Fussell, Chris

Friendly Fire – The Accidental Shootdown of U.S. Black Hawks over Northern Iraq: Amazon.com: Snook, Scott A.

Adam Johns on LinkedIn: Adam Johns | LinkedIn

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In this episode, Mary Conquest speaks with Steve Simpson, an international workplace culture consultant, speaker and author, who has been helping organizations understand and transform their cultures for over three decades.

Why does the profession have so much difficulty measuring and understanding safety culture? Are safety practitioners missing something??

Steve introduces his concept of Unwritten Ground Rules (UGRs), the things nobody talks about that actually constitute the real culture of a workplace.

He explains how they shape “the way things are done” in organizations and why these hidden beliefs and expectations can have a powerful impact on behaviors, decisions and attitudes to risk.

EHS professionals will learn how to uncover these powerful UGRs by using a simple technique that will also identify the key contributing attributes impacting safety culture.

This practical conversation gives listeners a new perspective on cultural learning and change that will help organizations close the gap between stated safety values and actual workplace practices.

Learn more about Steve’s work: Steve Simpson – Workplace Culture & UGRs®

Steve’s books:
Cracking the Corporate Culture Code
A Culture Turned

And Steve also recommends:
Corporate Cultures: The Rites And Rituals Of Corporate Life : Deal, Terrence E, Kennedy, Allan A

Steve Simpson on LinkedIn: Steve Simpson | LinkedIn

Safety Labs is created by Safety Products Global, the world's leading manufacturer of safety knives. Through our trusted brands, Klever, Slice and PHC, we empower companies to prevent injuries by providing safer cutting tools for every material and application. Find us at www.safetyproducts.global

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