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Saturday, June 20, 2026 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 b...
Saturday, June 13, 2026 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, buildin...
Saturday, June 6, 2026 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...
Saturday, May 30, 2026 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 t...
Saturday, May 23, 2026 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 dra...
Saturday, May 16, 2026 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...
Saturday, May 9, 2026 PAPod 597 - From the way, way, way, way, back machine...Pain as a Predictor: Martha Acosta on Finding the Signals Before Failure Todd Conklin interviews Martha Acosta, a pioneer in human performance and instructional design, about using organizational "pain points" and paradoxes...
Saturday, May 2, 2026 PAPod 596 - Incremental Safety Practices: Reductive vs. Inductive Safety Todd Conklin reviews Erik Hollnagel’s new book "Incremental Safety Practices" and explains the core idea that safety efforts fall into two approaches:...
Saturday, April 25, 2026 PAPod 595 - Beyond Checklists: How Conversations Transform Safety Culture Host Todd Conklin talks with Daniel Hummerdahl about his new book, An Invitation to Safety Conversation, exploring how everyday safety talks can move ...
Saturday, April 18, 2026 PAPod 594 - Bridging Cultures: Safety, Migrant Workers, and the Heart of Agribusiness Coming into this episode, Todd Conklin welcomes Al Thomson to discuss safety in the primary sector, focusing on migrant Pacific workers and a human-ce...
Saturday, April 11, 2026 PAPod 593 - Young Voices, System Thinking: A Conversation on Safety with Mousa Yassin Host Todd chats with Mousa Yassin about shifting safety culture from blaming individuals to designing systems that tolerate failure and recover quickl...
Saturday, April 4, 2026 PAPod 592 - How a Near-Miss Sparked the Learning Team Movement 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. ...