Workplace safety, leadership and risk insights from the Headline Podcast editorial team.
Por Andreza Araujo Host & Editorial Lead
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Night work creates a safety exposure that ordinary daytime dashboards often hide. This diagnostic guide shows four signals that reveal when fatigue, reduced supervision, and degraded controls are changing the risk of a shift.
Control ownership is more than naming a department. This Headline Podcast explainer defines four decision rights that make safety-critical controls accountable, verifiable, and changeable when conditions shift.
A practical eight-step method for EHS leaders and supervisors to test whether a new roster has changed workload, recovery, control, or escalation conditions before those changes become normal.
The Piper Alpha disaster is often remembered as an offshore fire, but the deeper case is about information that did not travel with the work. This narrative case study examines how permit handover, isolation status, emergency communication, and barrier ownership interacted before the 1988 catastrophe, then turns the lessons into a practical test for high-risk operations.
HAZOP, Bow-Tie, and FMEA answer different process-safety questions. This comparison helps engineering, operations, maintenance, and EHS leaders match each method to design deviations, barrier assurance, or equipment and task failure modes.
Safety meetings become valuable when they change a decision, strengthen a control, or make escalation easier. Five common distortions can make a completed meeting look safer than the work actually is.
A green safety dashboard does not prove that critical risk is controlled. The useful test is whether each metric changes a decision about exposure, resources, supervision, or recovery before an event forces the issue.
The first line of care turns safety leadership into an operating discipline. This explainer defines four responsibilities that make risk visible, owned, and actionable before work continues.
A practical daily safety briefing method for supervisors who need the next shift to leave with one clear risk decision, one owner, and one verification point.
Michael Emery's Episode 14 argument reframes the safety professional's role after a field deviation. Better questions, evidence, and field verification help leaders choose the right intervention without weakening accountability.
