All Episodes

Season 1

Saturday, May 30, 2026 PAPod 600 - The Future of Safety: Learning Teams, Storytelling, and Not-Knowing Episode 965 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 Episode 964 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 Episode 963 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 Episode 962 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 Episode 961 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 Episode 960 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 Episode 959 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 Episode 958 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 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. ...

Saturday, March 28, 2026 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 global...

Saturday, March 21, 2026 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 ...

Saturday, March 14, 2026 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 fai...