PAPod 579 - Stepping Back Almost 10 Years...Another Trip Around the Sun: 2016 Safety Recap & 2017 Resolve

10. New Year’s Eve recap reflecting on a busy 2016 and the journey ahead into 2017.

9. Host shares personal travel highlights and experiments in gratitude and generosity.

8. Announces a 2017 focus on seeking and affirming the fundamental goodness in people.

7. Reviews safety’s evolution: from compliance (Safety One) to safety-by-design (process safety).

6. Explains the current phase emphasizing human performance and managing variability rather than blaming workers.

5. Notes that incidents have become rarer and traditional metrics are less predictive.

4. Discusses fatalities as outlier events that require different thinking and study.

3. Invites listeners to run small sociological experiments to improve everyday interactions.

2. Celebrates the collective progress in safety and the privilege of contributing to that change.

1. Ends with a New Year’s wish: be with each other, keep managing uncertainty wisely, and have a great 2017.