Safety has taken on religious connotations in a lot of circles. Safety saves? Have faith? Just believe? Everything from Christianity, except the big two: grace and forgiveness.

Is "safety porn" valuable to the profession? This episode was recorded a few weeks ago before life got busy, but it's still relevant!

Brent Charlton reflects on how small businesses might just have the right idea about having safety conversations. Maybe we can learn something from not TELLING people what they are doing wrong, and work with humility to LISTEN more.

Brent Charlton reflects on how safety professionals like to post pictures and videos of workers doing things unsafely AND comment on how "stupid" or what "idiots" they are for doing such things.

Brent Charlton reflects on the rigidity of cardinal rules and checklists, and how they can get in the way of real safety.

Brent Charlton discusses a post that he saw while scrolling LinkedIn that say "All safety professionals are weak..." and makes some suggestions about dealing with issues and not lumping everyone together.

In this Safety Reflection, Brent talks about the in-fighting on social media about the methods for correcting the "mythical safety culture".

Brent Charlton reflects on the in-fighting in the safety profession about which approach or ideas are "the best".

Brent Charlton discusses what the definition of safety is to him and why there are as many definitions as there are safety professionals.

Brent talks about whether "Stop Work Authority" is the best way to handle preventing incidents (and he offers some better ideas).