🎙️ The Safety Edge Podcast

When Silence Becomes the Risk: Psychological Safety, Psychosocial Risk and Leadership Judgment Silence is rarely just silence. In this conversation, Charles Edgar and Dr. Peter Brace explore why people stay quiet when...

️ The Safety Edge Podcast What if the problem isn’t that leaders don’t know what to do? What if they aren’t fully resourced to do it when pressure hits? In my upcoming conversation with Rich Lohman, we explore the Fully...

What if your organization has all the resources it needs to succeed, but still struggles to perform at its best? In this episode, I’m joined by Rich Lohman to explore what it really means to be a fully resourced leader...

An injury occurs. Investigations begin. Procedures are rewritten. Training is refreshed. We've become remarkably good at learning after failure. But here's the question: Why did it take someone getting hurt before we...

️ New Episode Available: Episode 18 – When Learning Only Happens After Someone Gets Hurt Why do so many organizations only learn after someone gets hurt? An incident occurs, investigations begin, corrective actions are...

Overview In this episode, we explore how organizations gradually drift away from their own standards, not officially, but operationally. We examine why successful outcomes can sometimes hide emerging risks and what...

<p><b>When Procedures Don’t Match Reality | Work as Imagined vs. Work as Done</b></p><p></p><p>Why do experienced workers sometimes adapt procedures or create unofficial ways of getting the job done?</p><p></p><p>In...

<p>The conversation explores the gap between how work is imagined and how work is actually done, highlighting the unexamined risks in safety leadership. Charles Ebger, the safety leadership coach, introduces the concept...

<p>When safety relies on heroes, the system is already under strain.</p><p>This episode explores why repeated “save the day” moments often signal deeper gaps, and how strong individuals can unintentionally mask risk...

<p>The conversation explores the tension between individual efforts and system strength in the context of safety. It emphasizes the value of heroic effort but highlights the fragility of safety when it depends solely on...

<p>In high-stakes environments, experience is often trusted without question. But what happens when expertise goes unchallenged?</p><p>In this episode, we take you inside a control room where a familiar situation...

<p>This episode explores the hidden risk not of expertise itself, but of <b>untested expertise</b>—and how easily teams can slip into silent alignment when confidence goes unquestioned.</p><p>We unpack:</p>Why...

<p>Do you often speak first in meetings?</p><p></p><p>Have you considered how your influence might be quietly shaping agreement…., and potentially masking risk?</p><p></p><p>In Episode 13 of my podcast, "When Everyone...

<p>Most teams don’t ignore risk—they stop seeing it. </p><p>Familiarity builds confidence, but it also erases awareness. </p><p>What’s repeated becomes accepted… and what’s accepted becomes invisible.</p><p></p><p>The...

<p>In this episode of The Safety Edge Podcast, we explore how familiarity—often mistaken for confidence—can quietly erode risk awareness in high-risk operations. Through a realistic operational scenario, we examine how...