Cam's Corner
Meet Cam – The Man Behind Cam’s Corner If there’s one thing Cam loves more than a strong cup of coffee and a freshly sharpened pencil, it’s asking one simple question: “But what really caused it?” Cam is Safety Wise’s resident ICAM investigation expert and full-time Incident…
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Safety Debt: When Budget Cuts Trap the Frontline (opens the original)
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This episode examines how top-down budget cuts, KPI pressure, and understaffing can push frontline workers into unsafe shortcuts. It also explores the idea of safety debt and why executive decisions can create the conditions for serious incidents. Show Notes Blog | Safety Wise: https://www.safetywise.com/blog
Longford’s Alarm Overload and the Cost of Normalization (opens the original)
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This episode unpacks the Longford gas plant disaster through the lens of alarm overload, human attention limits, and the dangerous habit of treating warning signals as background noise. It also traces how ignored condensate buildup led to brittle metal failure, a catastrophic rupture, and a deeper culture of normalized deviance in safety systems. Show Notes 20 years since the Longford explosion: https://uat-cm.advisian.com/en/global-perspectives/20-years-since-the-longford-explosion Assessing lo
Stop Chasing Confessions: Better Workplace Investigations (opens the original)
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This episode breaks down why workplace investigations fail when they chase confessions instead of context, and shows how to use open, bias-free questioning to uncover what really happened. It also explores how witness accounts map to Work as Done and systemic factors like environment, equipment, procedures, and organisational pressures. Show Notes Blog | Safety Wise: https://www.safetywise.com/blog
When Take 5 Became Tick 5 (opens the original)
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This episode examines how a simple pre-task safety check turned into a paper-based compliance ritual, creating the illusion of control while real hazards were overlooked. It also explores the human factors, leadership pressures, and hierarchy of controls behind the problem—and what more effective risk management could look like. Show Notes Blog | Safety Wise: https://www.safetywise.com/blog
The Zero LTI Trap (opens the original)
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This episode explores how Goodhart's Law turns Lost Time Injuries into a target that can distort reporting, encourage workarounds, and hide real hazards. It also breaks down ICAM's Incompatible Goals code and shows why safer workplaces depend on redesigning incentives, improving leading indicators, and fixing the system rather than blaming frontline workers. Show Notes Blog | Safety Wise: https://www.safetywise.com/blog
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