What's your favorite safety podcast?
Do you have a favorite podcast you listen to when each new episode drops? Do you know there is a contest to pick the best safety podcast? You can go to here and vote for your favorite:
https://www.hsepeople.com/top-ten-nominated-hse-podcasts-2023/
But while we are on the topic of podcasts, I have to share my thoughts.
If we are talking podcasts then there's one thing that piques my interest way more and makes certain podcasts stand out more and that is video podcasts. I believe anyone with a computer and an external microphone can record their own podcast. It doesn't matter if they have a studio, home office, or if they are recording their podcast in their Mom and Dad's basement, audio podcasts don't have the same connection with your viewers.
But I think a video podcast brings a more personal connection with your audience. Now before you beat me down and tell me about the logistics of videoing the podcast, getting the sound right, and the time it takes to edit the video podcast, remember I know a thing about videos.
I will gladly watch a video podcast over just a static audio podcast every day of the week. The thing is I want to see their body language, how the hosts react to each other, and the guests they have on their podcast.
In saying that I really enjoy Blaine Hoffman's "The SafetyPro podcast."
Make sure you go and vote for your favorite. Winners will be announced on December 1st.
Comments (3)
I second "The SafetyPro Podcast"! I may be a little biased, but, oh well. 😂
I really enjoyed Blaine’s early podcast episodes, and it was one of the first safety podcasts I got into around 2018. He dug deep into safety management systems and root cause analysis and each episode was like a mini-lecture. There really was no other podcast like it. Sometime during the pandemic he switched to the interview style podcast that is so common. It’s not that I don’t enjoy it now, but I haven’t found a replacement for his original style.
While not strictly a safety podcast, I really like “Cautionary Tales”. Tim Harford does a great job at using true stories to bring attention to human flaws in a root case analysis kind of way. Some of the more safety centric episodes are listed below.
(When the autopilot switched off, La la land: Galileo’s warning, Death on the dance floor, the vigilante and the air traffic controller, cautionary conversion: flying on empty, wrong tools cost lives, Fire at the Beverly Hills supper club)