Prestarts, they’re an essential meeting held daily before shifts in high risk work but how often are these meeting engaging and actually achieving what they set out to achieve? Alan Stevenson has been in plenty of prestarts over the years, he now coaches leaders on how to make their prestarts efficient and impactful. This extends beyond the prestart and how leaders can touch base with their teams throughout the day, based on conversations they had in their prestart. 

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It’s a model that anyone in the safety space would know, the Hierarchy of Controls. In this episode we look at how the HoC model helps us understand critical controls and how they’re working within the critical risk management framework. How can we embed HoC thinking into culture and what role does consultation play in ensuring controls are practical and actually followed? 

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We’re back with Ellen Downs to discuss her involvement in a research study that looked at the causes and correlations of serious injury and fatality events and how these differ from events resulting in lesser injuries. In this episode she discusses the findings of the research and what organisations are doing differently now versus before the study and where potential gaps still remain.

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On this podcast you often hear us discussing research in the space of serious injuries and fatalities. We go through what the research found and how the outcomes reflect our workplaces. But we were curious about what it would be like to conduct the research, so we asked Ellen Downs to join us to give us a peek behind the data. She was involved in research study in 2015, which brought together several high profile mining organisations to understand why total recordable injury rates were decreasing while SIF statistics weren’t. Ellen talks us through how the research study was born, the logistics of research at that scale and what challenges they faced. This is a two part episode, come back next week to hear what the research found. 

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Complex and complicated, they’re words that are used interchangeably but it’s important we get that distinction right; especially in relation to serious injuries and fatalities. In this episode of the Fatality Free Future podcast safety leader and consultant Alan Stevenson breaks down the difference between these two terms. He explores the complexity within SIF and discusses how leaders can embrace curiosity to better understand these situations. 

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Welcome back to the Fatality Free Future podcast for season 2. Our mission with this podcast is to increase the conversation around serious injuries and fatalities in the workplace. In this episode we’re looking at leadership routines and how we can integrate SIF conversations and awareness into our daily practices. Hosts John Barclay and Holly Ferguson discuss ways to engage with frontline workers that move beyond surface level conversations and checklists. 

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In the final episode of Fatality Free Future, John Barclay and Holly Ferguson unpack the role of behavioural science in preventing workplace fatalities. They explore the environmental and systemic factors influencing behaviour, clarify common misconceptions, and introduce models like Decisions–Actions–Outcomes and the Exposure Quadrant to better understand and manage risk. This final episode urges leaders to go beyond blame and engage meaningfully with behaviour.

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John Barclay and Holly Ferguson are joined by safety innovation consultant Dorit Ozchakir to explore how storytelling can drive a fatality-free future. Drawing on her background in business psychology, Dorit shares insights from research and explains why stories, when vivid, relatable, and emotionally resonant, stick. 

The trio discuss practical techniques like using rhetorical questions, visual aids, and emotional cues to make safety messages memorable. 

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In this episode, John Barclay and Holly Ferguson explore the critical role of leadership in shaping a Fatality Free Future®. They unpack how leaders can model and communicate core values, especially around safety and planning, and why two-way communication is essential. 

John and Holly also discuss adapting to dynamic risks, encouraging a growth mindset, and the lasting “shadow” leaders cast through their actions. 

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Let’s unpack the critical role culture plays in preventing fatalities. In this episode John explores the difference between fixed and growth mindsets and defines culture as “the way we do things around here when no one’s looking.” John challenges the reliability of culture surveys, pointing instead to trust and honest conversations as better indicators of cultural health. 

With insights and examples, like everyday driving habits, he explains how leaders shape culture through their actions, assumptions, and the values they promote.

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