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Pre-Accident Investigation Podcast - PAPod 583 - When Normal Variability Breaks - The ReDonda Story

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 20:19:41 +0000

Pre-Accident Investigation Podcast - PAPod 583 - When Normal Variability Breaks - The ReDonda Story

Accidents are an unexpected combination of normal performance variability.

PreAccident Investigation Podcast - PAPod 583 - When Normal Variability Breaks: The ReDonda Story

https://overcast.fm/+AAtF0CMmgdc
https://preaccidentpodcast.podbean.com/e/when-normal-variability-breaks-the-redonda-story/

Pre-Accident Investigation Podcast - PAPod 582 - Accountability vs. Blame - Who Really Owns Safety?

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 23:14:06 +0000

Pre-Accident Investigation Podcast - PAPod 582 - Accountability vs. Blame - Who Really Owns Safety?

A fixation on accountability is a red flag for blame culture, but accountability conversations are a useful preparation step.

16:50

Accountability is an act of clarity. Accountability is the discussion you have before something bad takes place. Accountability is not blame. Accountability is different than discipline. Accountability is not performance management.

PreAccident Investigation Podcast - PAPod 582 - Accountability vs. Blame: Who Really Owns Safety?

https://overcast.fm/+AAtF0CfS5Ig
https://preaccidentpodcast.podbean.com/e/accountability-vs-blame-who-really-owns-safety/

Pre-Accident Investigation Podcast - PAPod 508 - Leadership and Capacity - A Deep Dive into Modern Management

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 11:02:16 +0000

Pre-Accident Investigation Podcast - PAPod 508 - Leadership and Capacity - A Deep Dive into Modern Management

Improvement is a deliberate effort. Leaders can “only actually” manage confidence (in people, org) and capacity (extensibility).

The gotcha of running too lean means you don’t have the capacity to problem solve, and makes everything brittle and fail catastrophically.

Make it safe to fail.

Finding where capacity is low can be more effective than looking for where there is risk. Having the capacity to manage the risk. Eg. Wanting to have your people to deal with the unexpected.

Pre-Accident Investigation Podcast 463 - Don't Fix People, Fix Processes

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 01:52:31 +0000

Pre-Accident Investigation Podcast 463 - Don’t Fix People, Fix Processes

11 min mark - “Don’t ask who failed. Ask what failed”
Deming’s 14 points - https://deming.org/explore/fourteen-points/
17 min mark - “when something happens, the tendency to push back and go to the old way is very attractive”. Going back to punishment, pushing back is something to know will try to happen but the old way wasn’t good - how happy were you with the old way?

Pre-Accident Podcast - Summary

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 05:30:55 +0000

Pre-Accident Podcast - Summary

Podcast Info

https://preaccidentpodcast.podbean.com/

Thoughts

This was first recommended by Jeff Lindsay (https://mas.to/@progrium) on Twitter quite a few years ago and I listened for a few years.

Todd Conklin does an excellent job looking at various items on how to better improve safety and how it overlaps with so many industries.

The overlap between IT, and safety specialists in their particular fields - wether it is medical, aerospace, or other is incredibly informational - especially when you look at the pre-accidental view.

Pre-Accident Investigation Podcast 456 - Waiting, Complexity, and People - A Greatest Hits Podcast

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 23:16:39 +0000

Pre-Accident Investigation Podcast 456 - Waiting, Complexity, and People - A Greatest Hits Podcast

08:55 - if a process is complicated - simplify. Make the hard easy. But if the process is complex, add transparency.

A bit of an oversimplification because you need to figure out if a process is complicated or simply complex.

11 min mark - make the connections more transparent - eg. Raise your hand to speak makes transparency for switching who is speaking.

Pre-Accident Investigation Podcast 227 - What-A-Burger, Fedex, and Capacity

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 04:52:56 +0000

Pre-Accident Investigation Podcast 227 - What-A-Burger, Fedex, and Capacity

No notes recorded - this is the episode we learn about FedEx running a capacity flight in each quadrant

PreAccident Investigation Podcast - PAPod 227 - What-A-Burger, Fedex, and Capacity

https://overcast.fm/+tF0Dykf8Q
https://preaccidentpodcast.podbean.com/e/papod-227-what-a-burger-fedex-and-capacity/

Pre-Accident Investigation Podcast 99 - Sidney Dekker, Heaven, and a Trip to the USA

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sat, 07 Jan 2017 02:26:56 +0000

Pre-Accident Investigation Podcast 99 - Sidney Dekker, Heaven, and a Trip to the USA

No notes recorded

PreAccident Investigation Podcast - PAPod 99 - Sidney Dekker, Heaven, and a Trip to the USA

https://overcast.fm/+EODOkGW9c
https://preaccidentpodcast.podbean.com/e/papod-99-sidney-dekker-heaven-and-a-trip-to-the-usa/