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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...
Saturday, October 11, 2025 PAPod 567 - Open Questions 2025: From Metrics to Monitors — Rethinking Safety Episode: an extended open Q&A from the Pre-Accident Investigation Conference in Santa Fe covering big-picture safety topics. Speakers discuss the ...
Saturday, October 4, 2025 PAPod 566 - Blame Stops Improvement: How Blame Silences Learning Todd Conklin explores how blame shuts down learning and prevents organizational improvement, arguing that blaming individuals creates a chilling effec...
Saturday, September 27, 2025 PAPod 565 - Fear, FOMO & Fixing Safety: A Conversation with Brent Sutton Todd Conklin and Brent Sutton discuss the short-term future of safety thinking—covering the rise and fall of lean/TQM, how commodification can slow in...
Saturday, September 20, 2025 PAPod 564 - Inside Meow Wolf: A Radical Conversation on Safety & Leadership Recorded live at Meow Wolf in Santa Fe, this episode features a wide-ranging conversation between Todd and Andy Baker about learning, safety culture, ...
Saturday, September 13, 2025 PAPood -563 - Human Performance, Not Human Error — Todd Conklin on Reframing Safety Tiny Todd Conklin joins the No Way Out podcast to explore Human and Organizational Performance (HOP), high-reliability organizing, and how safety emer...
Saturday, September 6, 2025 PAPod 562 - When 'I Forgot' Becomes Fatal: Preventing Children Left in Hot Cars This episode examines the growing problem of children accidentally left in hot cars, explains why memory failures can happen to anyone, and argues tha...
Saturday, August 30, 2025 PAPod 561 - High Reliability in Action — Turning Surprises into Safer Outcomes Todd talks with Lauren Mooney about her book High Reliability in Action and how to translate HRO concepts into practical behaviors. They cover the ris...
Saturday, August 23, 2025 PAPOd 560 - When Hospitals Criminalize Error: A Patient Safety Reckoning This episode of the Pre-Accident Investigation Podcast features patient safety leader Lisa Zegan, host of Tales from the Sharp End, in a candid conver...
Saturday, August 16, 2025 PAPod 559 - Exploring the Evolution of Safety Leadership with Tom Krause Join Todd as he delves into a captivating discussion with Tom Krause, founder of Behavioral Science Technology, on the Pre-Accident Investigation Podc...