

PreAccident Investigation Podcast
Todd Conklin
The Pre Accident Podcast is an ongoing safety podcast conversation of Human Performance, Systems Safety, & Safety Culture.
Episodes
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Sep 21, 2022 • 4min
Safety Moment - Big Changes Never Work
How's 2022 going so far? I can't seem to make the switch...In my mind it is still 2020...
Get Caught Trying to Make the World Better!
Best Safety Podcast, Safety Program, Safety Storytelling, Investigations, Human Performance, Safety Differently, Operational Excellence, Resilience Engineering, Safety and Resilience Incentives...
Give this a listen.
Thanks for listening and tell your friends. See you on Audible...all my books are up on there. One of them is read by a British dude - it is like a Harry Potter book! Have a great day as well.

Sep 17, 2022 • 31min
PAPod 409 - The World Through The Lens of A Young Professional
How's 2022 going so far? I can't seem to make the switch...In my mind it is still 2020...
Get Caught Trying to Make the World Better!
Best Safety Podcast, Safety Program, Safety Storytelling, Investigations, Human Performance, Safety Differently, Operational Excellence, Resilience Engineering, Safety and Resilience Incentives...
Give this a listen.
Thanks for listening and tell your friends. See you on Audible...all my books are up on there. One of them is read by a British dude - it is like a Harry Potter book! Have a great day as well.

Sep 14, 2022 • 3min
Safety Moment - What Goes Right? Special Guest YMSB
How's 2022 going so far? I can't seem to make the switch...In my mind it is still 2020...
Get Caught Trying to Make the World Better!
Best Safety Podcast, Safety Program, Safety Storytelling, Investigations, Human Performance, Safety Differently, Operational Excellence, Resilience Engineering, Safety and Resilience Incentives...
Give this a listen.
Thanks for listening and tell your friends. See you on Audible...all my books are up on there. One of them is read by a British dude - it is like a Harry Potter book! Have a great day as well.

Sep 10, 2022 • 27min
PAPod 408 - Remembering Richard Cook
How's 2022 going so far? I can't seem to make the switch...In my mind it is still 2020...
Get Caught Trying to Make the World Better!
Best Safety Podcast, Safety Program, Safety Storytelling, Investigations, Human Performance, Safety Differently, Operational Excellence, Resilience Engineering, Safety and Resilience Incentives...
Give this a listen.
Thanks for listening and tell your friends. See you on Audible...all my books are up on there. One of them is read by a British dude - it is like a Harry Potter book! Have a great day as well.

Sep 7, 2022 • 4min
Safety Moment - Induced Demand
How's 2022 going so far? I can't seem to make the switch...In my mind it is still 2020...
Get Caught Trying to Make the World Better!
Best Safety Podcast, Safety Program, Safety Storytelling, Investigations, Human Performance, Safety Differently, Operational Excellence, Resilience Engineering, Safety and Resilience Incentives...
Give this a listen.
Thanks for listening and tell your friends. See you on Audible...all my books are up on there. One of them is read by a British dude - it is like a Harry Potter book! Have a great day as well.

Sep 3, 2022 • 26min
PAPod 407 - Kurt Lewin, Thinking Differently About People, Agency, and Motivation - Greatest Hit Request
How's 2022 going so far? I can't seem to make the switch...In my mind it is still 2020...
Get Caught Trying to Make the World Better!
Best Safety Podcast, Safety Program, Safety Storytelling, Investigations, Human Performance, Safety Differently, Operational Excellence, Resilience Engineering, Safety and Resilience Incentives...
Give this a listen.
Thanks for listening and tell your friends. See you on Audible...all my books are up on there. One of them is read by a British dude - it is like a Harry Potter book! Have a great day as well.

Aug 31, 2022 • 4min
Safety Moment - Hostile Design
How's 2022 going so far? I can't seem to make the switch...In my mind it is still 2020...
Get Caught Trying to Make the World Better!
Best Safety Podcast, Safety Program, Safety Storytelling, Investigations, Human Performance, Safety Differently, Operational Excellence, Resilience Engineering, Safety and Resilience Incentives...
Give this a listen.
Thanks for listening and tell your friends. See you on Audible...all my books are up on there. One of them is read by a British dude - it is like a Harry Potter book! Have a great day as well.

9 snips
Aug 27, 2022 • 26min
PAPod 406 - Ryan Kitchens and Poeple and Systems - Part 2
Ryan Kitchens, a senior software systems engineer with a background in media and gaming, dives deep into the challenges of learning from incidents in the tech world. He highlights a study showing that fast learners often leave the software industry, impacting skill transfer. Kitchens critiques incident command bottlenecks and discusses how higher levels of abstraction can complicate failure management. He emphasizes the need for curiosity despite production pressures and expresses cautious optimism about community-led change in resilience across industries.

Aug 24, 2022 • 5min
Safety Moment - What Failed in a Real Life Event
How's 2022 going so far? I can't seem to make the switch...In my mind it is still 2020...
Get Caught Trying to Make the World Better!
Best Safety Podcast, Safety Program, Safety Storytelling, Investigations, Human Performance, Safety Differently, Operational Excellence, Resilience Engineering, Safety and Resilience Incentives...
Give this a listen.
Thanks for listening and tell your friends. See you on Audible...all my books are up on there. One of them is read by a British dude - it is like a Harry Potter book! Have a great day as well.

8 snips
Aug 20, 2022 • 32min
PAPod 405 - Ryan Kitchens and Big System Resiliance - Part One
Ryan Kitchens, a Senior Systems Engineer at Netflix, dives into the intricacies of incident response and learning from failures in software. He discusses the importance of keeping risk conversations alive even during calm periods and critiques the simplistic tools often used for problem-solving. Ryan highlights the challenges of onboarding new leaders to embrace deeper learning methods and warns against action items that can inadvertently create future incidents. He also addresses the pervasive issue of attrition and dark debt within tech teams, advocating for dynamic documentation to mitigate hidden risks.


