Oct 20, 202635 minS4
“Audit yourself before somebody else does, because some of these are really easy to fix.” This week Dr. Logan F. Martin and James Junkin break down OSHA’s Top 10 most frequently cited violations for 2026 and discuss how...
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The Risk Matrix
Hosted by Veriforce · business · EN
About this Podcast:
The Risk Matrix brings weekly safety conversations that cut through the noise. Hosted by Dr. L.F. Martin (32-year veteran, Board of Global EHS Credentialing Impact Award winner) and James Junkin (ASSP's 2024 Safety Professional of the Year), they tackle OSHA rollbacks, legal trends, and the topics keeping safety managers up at night. Featuring guests from regulators to frontline leaders. New episodes every Tuesday. Powered by Veriforce. www.veriforce.com
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What is The Risk Matrix about?
The Risk Matrix brings weekly safety conversations that cut through the noise. Hosted by Dr. L.F. Martin (32-year veteran, Board of Global EHS Credentialing Impact Award winner) and James Junkin (ASSP's 2024 Safety Professional of the Year), they tackle OSHA rollbacks, legal trends, and the topics keeping safety managers up at night. Featuring guests from regulators to frontline leaders.
Who hosts The Risk Matrix?
The Risk Matrix is hosted by Veriforce. The show has published 159 episodes to date.
What has The Risk Matrix covered recently?
Recent episodes include "OSHA’s Top 10 Violations for 2026: Audit Yourself Before OSHA Does" (20 October 2026, 35 minutes), "When Cost-Cutting Becomes a Safety Risk: Lessons from Boeing" (6 October 2026, 37 minutes), and "Delete Is a Myth: ESI, Data Preservation, and Attorney Client Privilege with Tom O'Connor" (29 September 2026, 52 minutes).
How often does The Risk Matrix publish?
The Risk Matrix publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 36 minutes across 159 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on The Risk Matrix?
Booking probability for The Risk Matrix is 35%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Risk Matrix requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Risk Matrix's contact route on record: verified email.
Who should pitch The Risk Matrix?
The strongest fits for The Risk Matrix are Business & Management Consulting. The Risk Matrix has a business audience.
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Recent episodes
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Oct 6, 202637 minS4“Every shortcut they had became an engineering assumption.” This week Dr. Logan F. Martin and James Junkin use the Boeing documentaries Downfall and Free Fall as a jumping-off point to examine what happens when...
Episode #156
Delete Is a Myth: ESI, Data Preservation, and Attorney Client Privilege with Tom O'Connor
Sep 29, 202652 minS4"The duty to preserve arises when you have a reasonable likelihood of litigation. A lot of people think it only arises when I'm sued. Not true. The onus is on the people who own the data to preserve it when they think...
Sep 22, 202633 minS4"We got a standard, we may be quote unquote compliant with the standard, but does that mean that risk stays controlled?" This week Dr. Logan F. Martin and James Junkin discuss a NIOSH study published in August 2026...
- Sep 15, 202635 minS4
“Check your ladder, check the scaffold, check on your people.” This week Dr. Logan F. Martin and James Junkin discuss suicide prevention in construction and what safety professionals can actually do when they recognize...
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Sep 1, 202641 minS4"Titles have nothing to do with safety. Titles mean nothing. I'm just a guy trying to help people get home safe." This week Dr. Logan F. Martin and James Junkin welcome Paul Espenan, SVP of Environmental Health Safety...
Aug 25, 202636 minS4"This is not an incident primarily about a hose being left on at night. It's bigger than that." This week Dr. Logan F. Martin and James Junkin walk through the Watson Grinding explosion in Houston, Texas, the Chemical...
Aug 18, 202642 minS4"Guard your signature. Guard your reputation. Because safety, even though there's a good many of us, it's a small world indeed." This week Dr. Logan F. Martin and James Junkin welcome Corey Silverman, Safety Specialist...
Aug 11, 202633 minS4"If nobody can name the last stop that cost real money, you do not have stop work authority. You have a slogan." This week Dr. Logan F. Martin and James Junkin mark Episode 150 by going back to where it all started...
Episode #149
Preparing Utility Workers Before the Storm
Aug 4, 202633 minS4“You play like you practice.” This week, Dr. Logan F. Martin and James Junkin discuss James’ June 2026 article, Remembering Hurricane Katrina and Confronting Hurricane Season 2026 , and the lessons Hurricane Katrina...
Episode #148
Why Most Incident Investigations Stop Too Soon
Jul 28, 202623 minS4"The best investigations are the ones you have to run less often because a strong pre-incident risk assessment already caught the problem first." This week Dr. Logan F. Martin and James Junkin discuss Dr. Martin's July...
- Jul 21, 202631 minS4
Zero risk was never the goal. A deliberately defined, defensible, and economically sound threshold is." This week Dr. Logan F. Martin and James Junkin discuss Dr. Martin's July 7, 2026 article "The Myth of Zero Risk and...
Jul 7, 202639 minS4"If we have an injury, that's our injury. That is a combined shared injury between us. We get together shoulder to shoulder, we roll up our sleeves and we look at what systems, what behaviors led us to that. We don't...
Jun 30, 202634 minS4"It feels like a safety revival. You get there with six thousand of your best friends, you're all speaking the same language, you're supporting each other." This week Dr. Logan F. Martin and James Junkin welcome Rachel...
Jun 23, 202640 minS4"Does a corporate paycheck grant you the ethical right to monitor and analyze a person's physical geometry while they work forty hours a week?" This week Dr. Logan F. Martin and James Junkin tackle one of the most...
Jun 16, 202627 minS4"When you get a violation, it's not a suggestion to fix your safety management system. It's not a suggestion to do the training." This week Dr. Logan F. Martin and James Junkin break down why some companies treat OSHA...
Jun 9, 202647 minS4"Paper is not real safety. Just the acknowledgement that you've had training doesn't mean that worker has the knowledge, skills, and abilities to go out there and perform their job safely. That's the true test." This...
Jun 2, 202629 minS4"It's too late to draw it up in the dirt after something happens." This week Dr. Logan F. Martin and James Junkin break down OSHA's updated heat National Emphasis Program, why indoor heat is just as dangerous as outdoor...
May 26, 202645 minS4"With AI, you can practice these difficult safety conversations, like convincing a CFO or interviewing a reluctant witness, again and again and again, which you can't do with a human." Season 4 is here! This week Dr...
May 5, 202630 minS3"There's a heavy cost. And it's not just heavy dirt. It's reputational, it's future work, it's citation fines, it's litigation costs, it's civil penalties. All these things add up. And for what?" In the Season 3 finale...
Recent guests
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Tom O'Connor
Litigation Support Consultant, Author, Educator, Legal Technology Advocate, Gulf Coast Legal Technology Center
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Katie Hill
Financial Advisor and Chartered Financial Consultant, Mortuary Lift Company
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David Bates
Co-director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Bioinformatics Learning Systems, Mass General Brigham, Brigham and Women's Hospital
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Chris Kuiper
Vice President of Research, Fidelity Digital Assets
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