Workplace safety, leadership and risk insights from the Headline Podcast editorial team.
Por Andreza Araujo Host & Editorial Lead
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A short field-ready method for EHS managers, supervisors, and control owners who must decide whether work can continue when a safety-critical barrier is unavailable. The review defines the exposure, tests a temporary control, assigns decision rights, and sets a recovery condition before the exception becomes routine.
A bow-tie workshop turns a high-risk task into a decision-ready control map. Follow eight steps to define threats, verify barriers, assign owners, and authorize work.
Episode 7 with Rodney Rocha reframes the burden of proof in safety decisions. When information is incomplete, leaders should preserve the original warning, make assumptions visible, assign an owner, and provide protection before asking workers to prove that a task is unsafe.
A practical 30-minute method for supervisors to test a job safety analysis against real field conditions, critical controls, ownership, and stop-work decisions.
Risk transfer can allocate a defined consequence, but it does not erase the underlying hazard. This explainer separates transfer from risk reduction and acceptance through four operational limits.
Barrier health is the condition of a safety control when people rely on it during real work. This explainer defines four tests that reveal whether a control is present, usable, effective, and still owned.
PPE can reduce residual exposure, but it cannot replace a stronger control that removes or separates the hazard. This F1 diagnostic identifies five gaps that make a weak engineering-versus-PPE decision look complete.
Residual risk is not the leftover number in a risk matrix. It is a decision condition that identifies what remains after controls, who owns the exposure, what evidence supports acceptance, and when the decision must be reopened.
Layer of Protection Analysis is more than a worksheet for process-safety specialists. Used with clear assumptions and accountable ownership, LOPA helps plant leaders test whether a serious-risk scenario is protected by independent layers that can be verified in real work.
Cam Stevens argues that safety technology should begin with a defined operational problem, because tools chosen first can add cost, noise, and psychosocial risk.
