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This podcast series is about understanding diverse perspectives and emerging concepts in safety sciences, resilience and human factors. Each podcast is crafted as an open-ended discussion wi...

Discover how technology and our busy lives have diminished the art of conversation. Learn why genuine connection matters in today’s world.In...

What are the two main problems with how leadership is taught and practiced today?1. Leadership is all about Masculinity and to be precise -...

“What I'm interested in is how do I bring the voiceless to the table. How do I bring the invisible into the visible landscape and have those...

Mary Conquest, the famous host of the podcast, Safety Labs, has interviewed over a hundred people (including myself). I thought it would be...

Enclosed space risks have been haunting many high-risk industries for decades. The maritime industry has not seen much change with deaths an...

One of the least understood responses in an investigation is when we hear someone say ‘I don’t know’. It is considered a sign of incompetenc...

After an accident, we create a narrative to give meaning to misfortune. these narratives are packed in the discourse of science and they cla...

This podcast is an open-ended conversation with Dr (Captain) Bikram S. Bhatia about how he became interested in researching seafarers hours...

This podcast is about understanding the central role of language in understanding and influencing culture change. Both Dr Nippin Anand and J...

For a great part of my working life, I have been experiencing and researching enclosed space deaths and injuries. Here’s a humble attempt to...

Bureaucracy generated by excessive audits and inspections has reached a stage that it leads to high-consequence accidents at sea. Ships go a...

In this podcast, Nippin tells the story of a seafarer who doesn’t want to go home after being on the ship for 6 months. Nippin asks him why?...

A short story about why the notion of just culture is deeply problematic, flawed and without a basis for either culture or justice.

Less than a month ago, the long-awaited 𝗪𝗮𝗸𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗼 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 was released by the Court of Investigation, Mauritius...

In this conversation, Nippin and Frank delve into the significance of safety culture within organizations, emphasizing the need for a holist...

Where do you look for the meaning of words? Dictionaries, I guess? Word meanings are not to be found in dictionaries; words meanings are fou...

In this podcast, I discuss the impact of binary and absolute slogans on perception and behaviour, by drawing upon "Context is everything" as...

In this podcast, I share some thoughts about the limitations of root cause analysis as a method (or a tool) for investigations and audits ba...

a conversation with Bryce Boehmer where we discuss how to understand culture. We are setting up a workshop in Calgary on 20-21st October and...

Often people involved in accidents will tell us that the process of accident investigation was far more stressful and even traumatic than th...

Do you believe in Zero Harm? Is that your goal for avoiding injuries and ensuring safety of your people? Is that an expectation imposed upon...

Many organisations declare safety as one of the values in the vision and mission statements. Can safety be a value?When fallible humans cond...

This podcast is based on the work of the American Anthropologist Ernest Becker's perennial thesis - 'the denial of death'. In this podcast,...

In less than 12 hours, President Trump blamed that DEI was behind the Washington mid-air collision. How did Trump connect so many dots at th...

Myth busting i.e. viewing a myth as a false story, is a political ideology. It is not science. Myth busting creates differences and it sprea...

In October this year, I travelled to Canada for work and on the first night of arrival, while still jet lagged and sleepless, I was searchin...

What happens when someone by-passes an alarm, turns the wrong valve on the manifold, ignores a barrier, or leaves a winch lever unattended....

In 2012 the passenger ship Costa Concordia sank off the coast of Italy, resulting in the death of 32 people. Amongst other things, the capta...

In January 2012, the Costa Concordia went aground and capsized off the coast of Italy. One of the most disturbing aspects of this accident w...

Welcome to Mindfulness, Self-Awareness, and Risk, the podcast where we explore the intersection of human experience and risk management. I'm...

This podcast discussion represents two people from different parts of the globe with different backgrounds looking for common ground. As you...

This podcast started off with reflecting on the power of embracing fallibility. Dr John Flach, my guest, then brought his own experiences an...

This podcast questions the centrality of Behaviourism in our lives, and how in our quest for simplifying human behaviour into a particular t...

We hear every now and then that methodology does not matter, it is a topic for academic discussions. What really matters is results, success...

This is the third in a series of three podcast with Greg Smith, the author of the book Paper Safe. In this podcast Greg and I discuss the no...

This is the second in a series of three podcast with Greg Smith, the author of the book Paper Safe. In this podcast Greg and I discuss his n...

Motivation, purpose and a search for meaning: An interview with Greg Smith This is the first in a series of three in-person podcasts between...

This podcast is a discussion between Ron Gant and Nippin Anand about learning within the context of accident investigations. Ron and Nippin...

In this podcast, Greg and Nippin discuss how can we learn from accidents. Greg asks Nippin a range of questions including who needs to learn...

In this podcast, Nippin speaks with Ivan Pupulidy and Crista Vesel about their latest book, ‘Human and Organisational Potential.’ The two au...

I was in Athens a few weeks ago and I visited a church there. Upon seeing a picture hanging on the wall, I told the priest, ‘We have a very...

We often hear during risk and safety discussions that methodology does not matter, methods don’t matter, philosophy doesn’t matter, what mat...

This is the second in a series of 2 episodes on psychosocial harm. The question we ask in this two-part series – how safety practices can do...

Someone in your workplace has been bullied, discriminated or harassed. What do you do? Do you think people in your organisation are prepared...

Do you think safety is about saving lives? In this podcast, Rob, Nippin and Pedro question the myth of ‘Safety saves lives’. What do we mean...

It’s the start of a new year and I thought it would be wonderful to start off on a positive note. The topic of this year’s first podcast is...

It is often said that safety people require a predisposition of care and empathy towards the others. Rosa Carrillo’s well-researched book ‘O...

Nippin Anand and Pedro Ferreira follow-up on their conversation in Croatia A conversation about what it takes to bring cultural sensitivity...

How do you understand culture, cultural sensitivity and risk intelligence? How can being culturally sensitive make us risk intelligent? Nipp...

This podcast is dedicated to people who put on a performance (a show) every day when they come to work. performance means many things, altho...