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Punk Rock Safety
Приєднався 11 бер 2024
This podcast is here to fight safety bullshit.
The three of us - Ben, Dave, and Ron - talk about organizational safety, resilience, and human performance, but with a different perspective on things than you might be used to. Punk rock is about abandoning ideas that aren’t useful, being unafraid to push boundaries and sometimes fail, and doing it yourself when the things you need don’t exist.
Here’s what Greg Graffin from Bad Religion says: “Punk is a process of questioning and commitment to understanding that results in self-progress, and by extrapolation, could lead to social progress. Punk is a belief that this world is what we make of it. Truth comes from our understanding of the way things are, not from the blind adherence to prescriptions about the way things should be.” Sounds good to us.
Question everything. Do cool shit that works.
The three of us - Ben, Dave, and Ron - talk about organizational safety, resilience, and human performance, but with a different perspective on things than you might be used to. Punk rock is about abandoning ideas that aren’t useful, being unafraid to push boundaries and sometimes fail, and doing it yourself when the things you need don’t exist.
Here’s what Greg Graffin from Bad Religion says: “Punk is a process of questioning and commitment to understanding that results in self-progress, and by extrapolation, could lead to social progress. Punk is a belief that this world is what we make of it. Truth comes from our understanding of the way things are, not from the blind adherence to prescriptions about the way things should be.” Sounds good to us.
Question everything. Do cool shit that works.
Punk Rock Safety Ep. 16: Fuck Authority
It's Episode 16, punks.
The boys start this one with a peek behind the curtain into just how much prep goes into the pod. Spoiler: not a lot. It's sort of like a punk show that way.
The topic for 16 is regulators, which means it's a great time for Pennywise's Fuck Authority (ua-cam.com/video/j5arZGgyGSc/v-deo.htmlsi=9H1laLeVw1O_gjYa).
That's probably not a great way to handle regulation, though. So what can you do? Are all regulations important? Do we have to respond to each one with some sort of 'thing' we can point to to satisfy a rule, or are we just making shit up sometimes?
That's the topic when the guys can focus, but there's the usual bullshit, too. Check it out, there's actually some good stuff in there.
The boys start this one with a peek behind the curtain into just how much prep goes into the pod. Spoiler: not a lot. It's sort of like a punk show that way.
The topic for 16 is regulators, which means it's a great time for Pennywise's Fuck Authority (ua-cam.com/video/j5arZGgyGSc/v-deo.htmlsi=9H1laLeVw1O_gjYa).
That's probably not a great way to handle regulation, though. So what can you do? Are all regulations important? Do we have to respond to each one with some sort of 'thing' we can point to to satisfy a rule, or are we just making shit up sometimes?
That's the topic when the guys can focus, but there's the usual bullshit, too. Check it out, there's actually some good stuff in there.
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Punk Rock Safety Ep. 15.5: Someone Else Is Hurt
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Alright, the First Annual PRS Field Trip was a success. Well, Ron fucked up our TRIR, but it was a success other than that. We recorded a short episode midway through the 3-day Punk in Drublic Festival. Ben is sleepy, Dave's jetlagged, and Ron's head hurts, but we made it. This episode is short because we've got video of some of the live performances. Until someone complains and they get taken ...
Punk Rock Safety Ep. 15: Sellouts
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In punk, being a sellout means you've abandoned the punk rock culture: anti-authority, DIY, non-conformity, and tearing apart systems that don't work for the people. So what happens if you shake up the idea of safety culture as a cornerstone? Fucking sellouts. The boys talk about culture, some new publications on it, and how it's used as a lazy response to issues with safety or resilience. And ...
Punk Rock Safety Ep. 14: Risk Assess-Holes
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When's the last time the outcome of a risk assessment was a surprise? Thought so. So why do we do risk assessments, anyway? Are we really making decisions based on them? It doesn't sound like it. Is it a social process, then? Shit, man, that's a lame party. The boys try to sort through the mess of matrices, JHAs, JSAs, safety risk committees, and all that to get to what we actually expect from ...
Punk Rock Safety Ep. 13: I Heard They Suck Live
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Fine. You're right. The title is also the name of a NOFX album. NOFX is rad, though, so we're keeping it. This week, we're talking to a kickass guest, Sam Goodman, about making safety less sucky. Sam even wrote a book about it. The truth is, a lot of people have experienced working with safety folks that just come across as assholes, or buzzkills, or cops, or knobs. It's not a surprise that mos...
Punk Rock Safety Ep. 12: Fuck Safety, Make Money
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It's episode 12, and we've got a new quote for a T-shirt, and instead of "goal conflicts," we just went with the title of the episode. Watch the merch store; we'll get it sorted. So, safety first, right? Maybe. Sometimes. Definitely, when someone asks, I guess. Like we say in the episode, there's probably not a room of executives who hate everything safety. It'd be a weird party, though. The bo...
Punk Rock Safety Ep. 11: People Suck
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Snake eyes, MFers! It's episode 11, and with a minute of prep or so, we settled on figuring out if people really are the solution to things, especially safety things. Toxic Narcotic has a song called "People Suck" I mean, sometimes, people are assholes, right? Or dumb? Or aren't they? Sometimes some moron tries to smash a can of triple-expanding foam with a forklift. We don't really think peopl...
Punk Rock Safety Ep. 10: Wanna Go To A Joint Party?
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The fact that we've made it to episode 10 is sort of miraculous. Like a stage diver, you don't have to want it, but it's happening. We're talking about contractor management-or, as Ron calls it, "cross-boundary joint activity." Ron talks about agents and stuff like that, not even in the context of Agent Orange, which is probably a better conversation. Ok, what we're really looking at is some of...
Punk Rock Safety Ep. 9: Ron Goes to College
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By the time this episode comes out, Ron will have defended his doctoral dissertation, a whole lot like Milo from The Descendents did. Except Ron is cooler. We're talking about investigations in this episode. What are they for? Ron thinks they're a little different than Dave and Ben do, but the consensus from the boys is that a lot of the espoused values of investigating don't make it into pract...
Punk Rock Safety Ep. 8: PRS Fucking Rules
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The boys are live from CHOL in Henderson (almost Las Vegas) for this one. And it's a discussion about rules. Punk rock isn't exactly about following rules, and maybe that's something that should carry over to how we think about work. Except lifesaving rules. And regulatory rules. And other stuff. Shit. So what do we do? We're not sure that question gets fully answered here, but there's at least...
Punk Rock Safety Ep. 7: Diane Chadwick-Jones Saw the Sex Pistols and You Didn't
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There's no better title than to make sure we've got Diane's name in it. Why? If you have to ask, go find out, then listen to the episode. There's a punk band called FEAR. Diane hasn't seen them. Anyway, fear of something different is sort of the topic for this episode. We're posting a little early because the CHOL conference is happening this week, and we'll be live there, too. Back to the impo...
Punk Rock Safety Ep. 6: I Wanna Be Your Dog(ma)
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We talked about metrics and measures last time, so if we're setting fire to something, we may as well spread the love. So, yeah, it's all about dogma this time. Or safety flavor. Or whatever you want to call it. Is there an actual Thunderdome where schools of safety thought fight to the death? Probably not, but that would be sort of rad to see. There really shouldn't be, but that's just our arg...
Punk Rock Safety Ep. 5: Size Matters
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The fame is getting to Ron's head a little bit. Dave's too. Ben doesn't get out much, but give it time. This one is a little more serious for some reason. Maybe it's because we're talking about metrics and measurement (not behavior-based safety). The boys are all pretty wound up about metrics anyway, so it's a decent topic. Ron's back from Hawaii. Dave's on the way to Denver. Ben's headed to Na...
Punk Rock Safety Ep. 4: Fuck! Are We Lost?
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Ben, Dave, and Ron talk about drift in this episode. We've drifted along this far. May as well keep going. We talk about how things move away from a plan or expectation (you know, like how the quality of this podcast may have moved away from what you hoped. Sorry.). It's actually a pretty good episode in terms of actual, useful discussion. Except for the part where we talk about models and just...
Punk Rock Safety, Ep. 3: Can Anybody Sing?
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Holy shit, we have our first guest. We told John he was trying out as the singer of the band so we could get him here. Turns out he can't sing. But he's a helluva guy, and he's crazy smart. John Wilkes is the Senior Director of Business Excellence at Novavax. If you haven't guessed, they're in a pretty high-stakes business. So, having John join us for an episode that touches on leadership was a...
Punk Rock Safety, Ep. 1: Sound Check
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Punk Rock Safety, Ep. 1: Sound Check
Thanks for sharing, so lucky to hear you all
There seems to be a growing discourse that safety culture is pointless, doesn't exist, isn't even a thing. Imagine "putting a fucking guard on it", and then within 5 mins the guard has been removed by the operator, with the knowledge of his supervisor, and when you take that to the department head they shrug their shoulders and say "oh well we tried". Safety culture will always exist, at varying degrees from good to bad and everything in between, in every organisation, whether we choose to acknowledge it or not. I would argue that an organisations safety culture determines the quality of their compliance. Lip service documents created to keep up appearances, or actual quality proactive input into a safety system done with intent because the value is understood. And I don't believe safety culture is the ambiguous mystery it's made out to be. It's an understanding of the "why" and a valuing of the "how".
Link to the U of Colorado article/paper? Otherwise, great podcast!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0925753524002480?via%3Dihub
I was "blessed" for a short period of my life to work for a H&S training provider, and delivered HARM (Hazard and Risk Management) courses. Part of the course, at the end, was to get the trainees in groups of 3-4 to fill out JSA's. Probably shouldn't come as much surprise that debate raged over levels of likelihood and consequence in these small groups. It could have gone on for hours. It's soooooooooooo subjective. Probably also goes without saying that this level of (highly amusing) analysis doesn't and couldn't happen on the worksite in real life. Let's not even talk about individuals unique appetite for risk....... or should we? Working for the NZ Army Special Forces has certainly broadened my perspective on that.
HOPportunities?!?! 🤣😂🤣😂
Oh you did pick it up and run with it!!!!
Comment for engagement.
Hey, I can wead 😊
No reference to triple expanding foam this time?!?!
Is there ever really a wrong time for a circle jerk though?!?!
On a serious note, is "drift" not just workplace evolution (everything to a certain extent evolves) with a little bit too much trial and error?
Seriously tho, are we getting some Merch happening?