# Headline Podcast

> Workplace safety, leadership and risk insights from the Headline Podcast editorial team.

Language: en-US
Site: https://headlinepodcast.us/blog

## Authors

- [Andreza Araujo](https://headlinepodcast.us/blog/autor/andreza-araujo): International reference in EHS, safety culture and safe behavior.

## safety-leadership

- [Safety Walks: 7 Pitfalls Leaders Should Catch](https://headlinepodcast.us/blog/safety-walks-7-pitfalls-leaders-should-catch): Run safety walks that test leadership, barriers, weak signals, and action quality instead of creating inspection theater. Audit your walk routine now. Author: Andreza Araujo
- [Antifragile Leadership: 7 Signals of Real Strength](https://headlinepodcast.us/blog/antifragile-leadership-7-signals-of-real-strength): Learn how antifragile leadership strengthens safety decisions, weak-signal detection, and governance before serious harm. Lead better now. Author: Andreza Araujo
- [Board Safety Oversight: 7 Questions Directors Need](https://headlinepodcast.us/blog/board-safety-oversight-7-questions-directors-need): Use seven board questions to expose fatal-risk blind spots, weak dashboards, contractor gaps, and cultural silence before crisis. Audit now. Author: Andreza Araujo
- [Fearless Influence: 6 Moves Safety Leaders Need](https://headlinepodcast.us/blog/fearless-influence-6-moves-safety-leaders-need): Learn 6 moves that help safety leaders name exposure, protect bad news and influence executive decisions before serious harm. Listen with Headline. Author: Andreza Araujo
- [Visible Felt Leadership: 5 Signals That Matter](https://headlinepodcast.us/blog/visible-felt-leadership-5-signals-that-matter): Learn how visible felt leadership turns field visits into decisions, protected escalation, and stronger safety culture. Audit your leadership now. Author: Andreza Araujo

## psychological-safety

- [Retaliation Risk After Speak-Up: 7 Tests Leaders Need](https://headlinepodcast.us/blog/retaliation-risk-after-speak-up-7-tests-leaders-need): Seven leadership tests to detect retaliation risk after safety speak-up, before silence turns into underreporting and weak risk visibility. Author: Andreza Araujo
- [Technical Dissent: 7 Signals Leaders Need](https://headlinepodcast.us/blog/technical-dissent-7-signals-leaders-need): Learn how leaders can protect technical dissent, preserve risk visibility, and keep operational warnings from being softened. Audit your meetings. Author: Andreza Araujo
- [Receiving Bad News at Work: 6 Leadership Moves That Keep Speak-Up Alive](https://headlinepodcast.us/blog/receiving-bad-news-at-work-psychological-safety): Receiving bad news well protects psychological safety. Use six leadership moves to keep speak-up alive and turn weak signals into safer decisions. Author: Andreza Araujo
- [Speak-Up Metrics: 7 Signals Leaders Should Track](https://headlinepodcast.us/blog/speak-up-metrics-7-signals-leaders-should-track): Measure speak-up as a leading safety indicator through response time, voice quality, dissent outcomes, and meeting behavior. Audit your dashboard. Author: Andreza Araujo

## safety-culture

- [Safety Climate Survey vs Risk Perception Assessment: 7 Differences Leaders Miss](https://headlinepodcast.us/blog/safety-climate-survey-vs-risk-perception-assessment): Safety climate surveys and risk perception assessments answer different leadership questions. Learn the 7 differences executives should see before culture work. Author: Andreza Araujo
- [Safety Posters: 7 Myths That Hide Culture Gaps](https://headlinepodcast.us/blog/safety-posters-7-myths-that-hide-culture-gaps): Learn why safety posters rarely change culture alone and how leaders turn campaigns into field action. Audit your next campaign. Author: Andreza Araujo
- [Compliance Culture: 7 Signals Certification Is Not Changing Behavior](https://headlinepodcast.us/blog/compliance-culture-7-signals-certification-is-not-changing-behavior): Audit whether safety certification is changing behavior, leadership decisions and risk visibility inside your operation. Start the diagnostic. Author: Andreza Araujo
- [Safety Culture Diagnosis: 7 Signals Leaders Miss](https://headlinepodcast.us/blog/safety-culture-diagnosis-7-signals-leaders-miss): Learn how to diagnose safety culture beyond surveys, slogans, and TRIR. Use seven leadership signals to test what your system protects today. Author: Andreza Araujo

## incident-investigation

- [First-Hour Incident Evidence: 7 Decisions Leaders Must Make](https://headlinepodcast.us/blog/first-hour-incident-evidence-7-decisions-leaders-must-make): Use seven first-hour decisions to preserve incident evidence, protect witness memory, and prevent shallow RCA. Audit your response now. Author: Andreza Araujo
- [Corrective Action Closure: 7 Signals Investigations Are Not Learning](https://headlinepodcast.us/blog/corrective-action-closure-7-signals-investigations-are-not-learning): Corrective action closure can hide repeat risk. Learn seven signals that show whether incident investigations changed real controls. Author: Andreza Araujo
- [Fatality Communication: A 72-Hour Executive Playbook](https://headlinepodcast.us/blog/fatality-communication-72-hour-executive-playbook): Use this 72-hour executive playbook to communicate after a workplace fatality without blaming early, hiding facts, or damaging trust. Author: Andreza Araujo
- [RCA After Incidents: 7 Traps Leaders Miss](https://headlinepodcast.us/blog/rca-after-incidents-7-traps-leaders-miss): Learn why RCA after serious incidents fails and how leaders can prevent blame-centered investigations. Review your next RCA. Author: Andreza Araujo

## mental-health-at-work

- [Mental Health Awareness Month at Work: 7 Tests That Separate Action From Theater](https://headlinepodcast.us/blog/mental-health-awareness-month-at-work-7-tests): Seven leadership tests that separate real workplace mental health action from awareness theater during Mental Health Awareness Month. Author: Andreza Araujo
- [Occupational Anxiety: 7 Signals Leaders Miss](https://headlinepodcast.us/blog/occupational-anxiety-7-signals-leaders-miss): Read 7 occupational anxiety signals leaders should track before absence, errors, and weak controls expose deeper safety risk. Author: Andreza Araujo
- [EAP Design: 7 Questions Leaders Should Ask](https://headlinepodcast.us/blog/eap-design-7-questions-leaders-should-ask): Audit EAP design through trust, access, workload signals, crisis response, and leadership follow-up. Improve mental health now. Author: Andreza Araujo
- [Shift Work Sleep: 7 Signals Leaders Miss](https://headlinepodcast.us/blog/shift-work-sleep-7-signals-leaders-miss): Find seven shift work sleep signals leaders should track before fatigue becomes injury, absence or psychosocial risk. Audit your roster now. Author: Andreza Araujo
- [Middle Manager Burnout: 7 Signals Leaders Miss](https://headlinepodcast.us/blog/middle-manager-burnout-7-signals-leaders-miss): See 7 signals that middle manager burnout is weakening safety leadership, escalation, and risk control. Audit the middle layer now. Author: Andreza Araujo
- [Return to Work After Mental Health Leave: 7 Decisions](https://headlinepodcast.us/blog/return-to-work-after-mental-health-leave-7-decisions): Learn seven HR and EHS decisions for safer mental-health return to work, from privacy to workload, supervision, and review. Audit your plan. Author: Andreza Araujo

## safe-behavior

- [Risk Perception Drift: 6 Myths Supervisors Still Believe](https://headlinepodcast.us/blog/risk-perception-drift-6-myths-supervisors-still-believe): Challenge 6 myths about risk perception drift before familiar exposure turns into serious harm. Audit the next field conversation. Author: Andreza Araujo
- [Decision Fatigue: 7 Safety Signals Leaders Miss](https://headlinepodcast.us/blog/decision-fatigue-7-safety-signals-leaders-miss): See how decision fatigue weakens supervisor safety judgment, stop-work authority, and late-shift approvals under pressure. Audit your controls now. Author: Andreza Araujo
- [Stop-Work Authority: 7 Design Failures Leaders Should Catch](https://headlinepodcast.us/blog/stop-work-authority-7-design-failures-leaders-should-catch): Stop-Work Authority needs clear triggers, protection, restart rules, and metrics that prove workers can stop unsafe work. Audit yours now. Author: Andreza Araujo
- [Behavioral Observation: 7 Signs It Became Theater](https://headlinepodcast.us/blog/behavioral-observation-7-signs-it-became-theater): Audit behavioral observation before it becomes quota theater. See seven signals leaders should catch and correct this month. Author: Andreza Araujo

## safety-indicators-and-metrics

- [Safety Underreporting: 7 Signals Executives Miss](https://headlinepodcast.us/blog/safety-underreporting-7-signals-executives-miss): Find 7 executive signals of safety underreporting before clean dashboards hide serious risk. Audit your metrics now. Author: Andreza Araujo
- [Near-Miss Quality: 7 Signals Your Metrics Are Lying](https://headlinepodcast.us/blog/near-miss-quality-7-signals-your-metrics-are-lying): Near-miss counts can hide fatal risk. Learn how to audit report quality and turn weak signals into control changes. Audit your metrics now. Author: Andreza Araujo
- [Executive Safety Dashboard: 7 Metrics C-Level Leaders Need](https://headlinepodcast.us/blog/executive-safety-dashboard-7-metrics-c-level-leaders-need): Build a monthly executive safety dashboard that exposes risk controls, reporting integrity, supervisor capacity, and workload pressure. Audit yours now. Author: Andreza Araujo
- [SIF Leading Indicators: 7 Metrics Leaders Need](https://headlinepodcast.us/blog/sif-leading-indicators-7-metrics-leaders-need): Use 7 SIF leading indicators to expose fatal-risk drift before injury rates move. Audit your dashboard now. Author: Andreza Araujo

## risk-management

- [LOPA: 7 Questions Leaders Should Ask](https://headlinepodcast.us/blog/lopa-7-questions-leaders-should-ask): Audit LOPA quality by testing independence, 10x credits, human response, Bow-Tie links, and barrier ownership. Start the review. Author: Andreza Araujo
- [Bow-Tie Analysis: 7 Barrier Questions Leaders Should Ask](https://headlinepodcast.us/blog/bow-tie-analysis-barrier-questions): Use Bow-Tie analysis to test preventive barriers, mitigative controls, degradation factors, and ownership before fatal-risk controls fail. Author: Andreza Araujo
- [Contractor Interface Risk: 7 Failures Leaders Should Catch](https://headlinepodcast.us/blog/contractor-interface-risk-7-failures-leaders-should-catch): Contractor interface risk hides between client and vendor systems. See 7 failures leaders should catch before harm occurs. Author: Andreza Araujo
- [Risk Matrix Blind Spots: 5 Distortions Leaders Should Catch](https://headlinepodcast.us/blog/risk-matrix-blind-spots): A critical guide to five risk matrix distortions that can hide fatal exposure, with executive questions for safer risk decisions. Author: Andreza Araujo

## occupational-safety

- [Hot Work Permits: 7 Tests Before Ignition](https://headlinepodcast.us/blog/hot-work-permits-7-tests-before-ignition): Build hot work permits that test isolation, combustibles, gas, fire watch, contractors and shutdown pressure before ignition. Audit yours now. Author: Andreza Araujo
- [Confined Space Rescue: 7 Tests Before Entry](https://headlinepodcast.us/blog/confined-space-rescue-7-tests-before-entry): Audit confined space rescue before entry with seven tests for timing, retrieval, contractors, drills, and command. Audit the plan. Author: Andreza Araujo
- [Lockout Tagout During Shutdowns: 7 Failures Leaders Should Catch](https://headlinepodcast.us/blog/lockout-tagout-during-shutdowns-7-failures-leaders-should-catch): Lockout tagout during shutdowns fails when isolation, verification, contractors, and handovers are treated as paperwork. See 7 leadership failures. Author: Andreza Araujo
- [Work at Height Permits: 7 Failures Leaders Miss](https://headlinepodcast.us/blog/work-at-height-permits-7-failures-leaders-miss): Learn why work at height permits fail and how leaders can redesign field checks, rescue timing, and stop-work authority. Audit your permits now. Author: Andreza Araujo

## psychosocial-risks

- [Job Demands-Control Model Explained: 6 Safety Uses](https://headlinepodcast.us/blog/job-demands-control-model-explained-6-safety-uses): Learn how job demands and control expose psychosocial risk, workload traps, weak authority, and safety decisions. Audit work design with leaders. Author: Andreza Araujo
- [Psychosocial Risk Assessment: 7 Questions for Leaders](https://headlinepodcast.us/blog/psychosocial-risk-assessment-7-questions-for-leaders): Use seven leadership questions to turn psychosocial risk assessment into workload, role, reporting, and work design controls. Audit now. Author: Andreza Araujo
- [Workplace Harassment: 7 Governance Tests for 2026](https://headlinepodcast.us/blog/workplace-harassment-7-governance-tests-for-2026): Prevent workplace harassment as psychosocial risk with seven governance tests for leaders, HR and EHS. Audit your prevention system. Author: Andreza Araujo
- [Impossible Deadlines: 7 Psychosocial Risk Signals](https://headlinepodcast.us/blog/impossible-deadlines-7-psychosocial-risk-signals): Audit impossible deadlines as a psychosocial risk before workload pressure becomes silence, burnout, or weak controls. Start today. Author: Andreza Araujo