Workplace safety, leadership and risk insights from the Headline Podcast editorial team.
Por Andreza Araujo Host & Editorial Lead
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Peer check, stop work, and pre-task briefing protect different moments in high-risk work. The decision matters because each control fails in a different way.
Episode 14 with Michael Emery presents safety coaching as a questioning and listening discipline that changes behavior without turning EHS into policing.
Intervention threshold explains the 4 field decision levels supervisors should use before a weak signal turns into formal stop work.
Alarm fatigue in safety becomes dangerous when leaders treat ignored warnings as an attention problem instead of an alarm design, priority, and supervision problem.
Risk thermostat explains how crews begin to accept more exposure when controls, repetition, and pressure make danger feel normal.
Confirmation bias in safety makes clean metrics, familiar contractors, and early theories look stronger than the field evidence behind them.
A practical 45-minute supervisor guide for correcting risky shortcuts without turning safety coaching into blame or silence.
A 30-day safety plan for newly promoted frontline supervisors who need better field conversations, sharper risk signals, and credible stop-work decisions.
Production pressure turns unsafe shortcuts into normal work when leaders protect deadlines, hide exposure, and leave safety decision rights unclear.
Safety objections reveal how crews understand risk, authority, and production pressure. Supervisors lose them when they treat every objection as resistance.
