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Saturday, January 3, 2026 PAPod 579 - Stepping Back Almost 10 Years...Another Trip Around the Sun: 2016 Safety Recap & 2017 Resolve 10. New Year’s Eve recap reflecting on a busy 2016 and the journey ahead into 2017. 9. Host shares personal travel highlights and experiments in grati...
Saturday, December 27, 2025 PAPod 578 - Choose Gratitude: A Thanksgiving 2021 Reminder This special Thanksgiving 2021 episode shares one simple piece of advice: be grateful. It highlights the power of gratitude during hard times and enco...
Saturday, December 20, 2025 PAPod 577 - Near Misses: The Unexpected Gift That Keeps Workers Safe In this episode Todd Conklin uses the season of gift-giving to explain near-miss reporting: why it matters, how it shows whether controls worked or lu...
Saturday, December 13, 2025 PAPod 576 - From Continuous Improvement to Continuous Capacity: 10 Operational Indicators You Need This episode shifts the safety conversation from continuous improvement to continuous capacity, introducing a practical dashboard of 10 operational in...
Saturday, December 6, 2025 PAPod 575 - Vancouver Workshop: A Case Study in Failure, Justice, and Resilience Todd Conklin talks with Brent Sutton and Jeff Lyth about the upcoming HOP Workshop in Vancouver (Jan 28–29, 2026), centered on Redonda’s powerful firs...
Saturday, November 29, 2025 PAPod 574 - Margin for Safety: Lessons from 50 Years in the Cockpit This episode explores human performance and aviation safety, contrasting airline procedures with general aviation risks. Guests discuss building safet...
Saturday, November 22, 2025 PAPod 573 - The Stability Trap: Why Safe Organizations Still Fail Jay Allen interviews Todd Conklin about his new book, The Stability Trap, exploring why even safe, stable organizations can fail. They discuss the "dr...
Saturday, November 15, 2025 PAPud 572 - The Stability Trap: Why Safety Success Can Lead to Failure Host Todd introduces his new book, The Stability Trap, and shares a sneak peek episode created with an AI-generated interview. The episode explores wh...
Saturday, November 8, 2025 PAPod 571 - Fail Fast, Learn Faster: A Conversation on Human Performance and Recovery In this episode Todd Conklin joins Jowanza Joseph to explore modern safety thinking: why human error is normal, how context shapes behavior, and why l...
Saturday, November 1, 2025 PAPod 570 - Safety Differently Down Under: Todd Conklin in Auckland Todd Conklin joins the Brisbane Safety Differently Book Lab in Auckland for a lively discussion about leadership, accountability, and learning from ev...
Saturday, October 25, 2025 PAPod 569 - PART TWO: 11 Seconds: How a System, Not a Nurse, Failed Part two of the RaDonda Vaught story examines what emerged after the event: investigation details, system design flaws, communication breakdowns, and ...
Saturday, October 18, 2025 PAPod 568 - PART ONE: Charged for a Mistake: The Nurse, the Error, and a System That Failed In this episode, nurse RaDonda Vaught tells the detailed, context-rich story of a medication error at Vanderbilt that led to criminal charges. She wal...