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- Preparing Utility Workers Before the Storm
“You play like you practice.”
This week, Dr. Logan F. Martin and James Junkin discuss James’ June 2026 article, Remembering Hurricane Katrina and Confronting Hurricane Season 2026, and the lessons Hurricane Katrina still teaches about worker preparedness, emergency planning, and business continuity.
From extreme heat and mutual aid crews to emergency action plans and storm response, the conversation explores why the organizations that respond best during severe weather are the ones that prepared long before the storm arrived.
RESOURCES
Remembering Hurricane Katrina and Confronting Hurricane Season 2026 by James Junkin (June 2026)
ABOUT THE RISK MATRIX PODCAST
Buckle up, safety pros! The Risk Matrix brings you a weekly podcast masterclass in risk management, hosted by two industry titans:
Dr. L.F. Martin: 32-year veteran, Board of Global EHS Credentialing Impact Award winner
James Junkin: Trainer of 40,000+ safety pros, ASSP's 2024 Safety Professional of the Year
They're tackling the topics that keep safety managers up at night featuring guests from regulatory bodies to safety directors and everything in between.
Every Tuesday: The tough conversations safety managers need to have. Critical insights from safety experts. Real-world strategies. Actionable solutions.
The Risk Matrix Podcast is powered by Veriforce: Bringing workers home safe from high-hazard jobs.
33 min - Why Most Incident Investigations Stop Too Soon
"The best investigations are the ones you have to run less often because a strong pre-incident risk assessment already caught the problem first."
This week Dr. Logan F. Martin and James Junkin discuss Dr. Martin's July 4, 2026 article "Untangling Direct, Underlying, and Root Causes After a Workplace Incident" and why stopping at the direct cause is why incidents repeat. Most investigations close the file on the proximate cause because it is easy. The real work, and the real prevention, happens in the underlying causes underneath it.
RESOURCESUntangling Direct, Underlying, and Root Causes After a Workplace Incident by Dr. Logan F. Martin (July 4, 2026)
ABOUT THE RISK MATRIX PODCAST
Buckle up, safety pros! The Risk Matrix brings you a weekly podcast masterclass in risk management, hosted by two industry titans:
Dr. L.F. Martin: 32-year veteran, Board of Global EHS Credentialing Impact Award winner
James Junkin: Trainer of 40,000+ safety pros, ASSP's 2024 Safety Professional of the YearThey're tackling the topics that keep safety managers up at night featuring guests from regulatory bodies to safety directors and everything in between.
Every Tuesday: The tough conversations safety managers need to have. Critical insights from safety experts. Real-world strategies. Actionable solutions.
The Risk Matrix Podcast is powered by Veriforce: Bringing workers home safe from high-hazard jobs.
23 min - The Myth of Zero Risk: Why Chasing Perfect Safety Is Bankrupting Good Intentions
Zero risk was never the goal. A deliberately defined, defensible, and economically sound threshold is."
This week Dr. Logan F. Martin and James Junkin discuss Dr. Martin's July 7, 2026 article "The Myth of Zero Risk and Why Chasing Perfect Safety Is Bankrupting Good Intentions." Safety management has two failure modes: stopping at compliance or chasing zero. The real work happens somewhere in between.
RESOURCES
The Myth of Zero Risk by Dr. Logan F. MartinLife Safety Alliance Top 40 (2026)
ABOUT THE RISK MATRIX PODCAST
Buckle up, safety pros! The Risk Matrix brings you a weekly podcast masterclass in risk management, hosted by two industry titans:
Dr. L.F. Martin: 32-year veteran, Board of Global EHS Credentialing Impact Award winner
James Junkin: Trainer of 40,000+ safety pros, ASSP's 2024 Safety Professional of the YearThey're tackling the topics that keep safety managers up at night featuring guests from regulatory bodies to safety directors and everything in between.
Every Tuesday: The tough conversations safety managers need to have. Critical insights from safety experts. Real-world strategies. Actionable solutions.
The Risk Matrix Podcast is powered by Veriforce: Bringing workers home safe from high-hazard jobs. www.veriforce.com
32 min - How to Build Contractor and Subcontractor Safety Partnerships with Tim Rich
"If we have an injury, that's our injury. That is a combined shared injury between us. We get together shoulder to shoulder, we roll up our sleeves and we look at what systems, what behaviors led us to that. We don't look at it as you failed. We share the fault, we share the responsibility and we share the action to fix it."
This week Dr. Logan F. Martin and James Junkin welcome Tim Rich, Construction Safety Manager at Boardwalk Pipelines, to discuss what contractor and subcontractor safety management looks like beyond the pre-qualification portal.
They discuss how he builds alliance contractor relationships, what their annual Contractor Alliance Summit delivers, and why incident response is a shared responsibility between operator and contractor.
ABOUT OUR GUEST
Tim Rich is Construction Safety Manager at Boardwalk Pipelines, where he oversees safety and compliance on multiple large-scale construction projects throughout the United States. An award-winning safety professional with over 25 years of experience in oil and gas, manufacturing, and mining, Tim has led cross-functional teams to drive culture change toward sustainable zero-injury work environments. He holds a BS from Louisiana Tech University and is currently pursuing his MBA from LSU.
ABOUT THE RISK MATRIX PODCAST
Buckle up, safety pros! The Risk Matrix brings you a weekly podcast masterclass in risk management, hosted by two industry titans:
Dr. L.F. Martin: 32-year veteran, Board of Global EHS Credentialing Impact Award winner
James Junkin: Trainer of 40,000+ safety pros, ASSP's 2024 Safety Professional of the Year
They're tackling the topics that keep safety managers up at night featuring guests from regulatory bodies to safety directors and everything in between.
Every Tuesday: The tough conversations safety managers need to have. Critical insights from safety experts. Real-world strategies. Actionable solutions.
The Risk Matrix Podcast is powered by Veriforce: Bringing workers home safe from high-hazard jobs. Learn more at www.veriforce.com
39 min - Inside ASSP Safety 2026: AI, Contractor Management, and the Future of Safety
"It feels like a safety revival. You get there with six thousand of your best friends, you're all speaking the same language, you're supporting each other."
This week Dr. Logan F. Martin and James Junkin welcome Rachel Tash, Veriforce VP of Marketing, for a first-timer's perspective on the ASSP Safety 2026 Professional Development Conference and Exposition.
They discuss what safety professionals were talking about on the show floor at ASSP Safety 2026, what the industry is demanding from AI right now, and why face-to-face interaction remains irreplaceable in a profession built on trust.
ABOUT THE RISK MATRIX PODCAST
Buckle up, safety pros! The Risk Matrix brings you a weekly podcast masterclass in risk management, hosted by two industry titans:
Dr. L.F. Martin: 32-year veteran, Board of Global EHS Credentialing Impact Award winner
James Junkin: Trainer of 40,000+ safety pros, ASSP's 2024 Safety Professional of the Year
They're tackling the topics that keep safety managers up at night featuring guests from regulatory bodies to safety directors and everything in between.
Every Tuesday: The tough conversations safety managers need to have. Critical insights from safety experts. Real-world strategies. Actionable solutions.
The Risk Matrix Podcast is powered by Veriforce: Bringing workers home safe from high-hazard jobs. Learn more at www.veriforce.com
34 min - When AI Watches: Worker Monitoring and Psychological Safety
"Does a corporate paycheck grant you the ethical right to monitor and analyze a person's physical geometry while they work forty hours a week?"
This week Dr. Logan F. Martin and James Junkin tackle one of the most pressing questions in safety right now: where is the line between using AI to protect workers and using it to surveil them?
In a warehouse setting, AI monitoring reduced slips, trips, and falls by twenty percent. Employee anxiety and turnover went up forty percent. That is the tension at the heart of this episode.
ABOUT THE RISK MATRIX PODCAST
Buckle up, safety pros! The Risk Matrix brings you a weekly podcast masterclass in risk management, hosted by two industry titans:
Dr. L.F. Martin: 32-year veteran, Board of Global EHS Credentialing Impact Award winner
James Junkin: Trainer of 40,000+ safety pros, ASSP's 2024 Safety Professional of the Year
They're tackling the topics that keep safety managers up at night featuring guests from regulatory bodies to safety directors and everything in between.
Every Tuesday: The tough conversations safety managers need to have. Critical insights from safety experts. Real-world strategies. Actionable solutions.
The Risk Matrix Podcast is powered by Veriforce: Bringing workers home safe from high-hazard jobs. Learn more at www.veriforce.com
40 min - Treating OSHA Standards as Suggestions: The Real Cost of Non-Compliance
"When you get a violation, it's not a suggestion to fix your safety management system. It's not a suggestion to do the training."
This week Dr. Logan F. Martin and James Junkin break down why some companies treat OSHA violations as suggestions, what happens when willful and repeat violations stack up, and why the biggest consequence is not the fine.
ABOUT THE RISK MATRIX PODCAST
Buckle up, safety pros! The Risk Matrix brings you a weekly podcast masterclass in risk management, hosted by two industry titans:
Dr. L.F. Martin: 32-year veteran, Board of Global EHS Credentialing Impact Award winner
James Junkin: Trainer of 40,000+ safety pros, ASSP's 2024 Safety Professional of the Year
They're tackling the topics that keep safety managers up at night featuring guests from regulatory bodies to safety directors and everything in between.
Every Tuesday: The tough conversations safety managers need to have. Critical insights from safety experts. Real-world strategies. Actionable solutions.
The Risk Matrix Podcast is powered by Veriforce: Bringing workers home safe from high-hazard jobs. Learn more at www.veriforce.com
27 min - Moving Beyond Paper Safety: Contractor Management and Training Gaps
"Paper is not real safety. Just the acknowledgement that you've had training doesn't mean that worker has the knowledge, skills, and abilities to go out there and perform their job safely. That's the true test."
This week Dr. Logan F. Martin and James Junkin break down why a strong pre-qualification score does not mean a contractor is actually doing what they say they're doing, what hiring clients and contractors are missing in their training programs, and what a real deep dive assessment reveals about the gaps between documentation and implementation.
ABOUT THE RISK MATRIX PODCAST
Buckle up, safety pros! The Risk Matrix brings you a weekly podcast masterclass in risk management, hosted by two industry titans:
Dr. L.F. Martin: 32-year veteran, Board of Global EHS Credentialing Impact Award winner
James Junkin: Trainer of 40,000+ safety pros, ASSP's 2024 Safety Professional of the Year
They're tackling the topics that keep safety managers up at night featuring guests from regulatory bodies to safety directors and everything in between.
Every Tuesday: The tough conversations safety managers need to have. Critical insights from safety experts. Real-world strategies. Actionable solutions.
The Risk Matrix Podcast is powered by Veriforce: Bringing workers home safe from high-hazard jobs. Learn more at www.veriforce.com
47 min - Prepare Before the Storm: Heat Safety and Severe Weather Planning
"It's too late to draw it up in the dirt after something happens."
This week Dr. Logan F. Martin and James Junkin break down OSHA's updated heat National Emphasis Program, why indoor heat is just as dangerous as outdoor exposure, and why contractors who rely on the hiring client's emergency plan are leaving their workers unprotected.
RESOURCES
OSHA's updated heat National Emphasis Program: https://www.osha.gov/news/newsreleases/osha-national-news-release/20260410
ABOUT THE RISK MATRIX PODCAST
Buckle up, safety pros! The Risk Matrix brings you a weekly podcast masterclass in risk management, hosted by two industry titans:
Dr. L.F. Martin: 32-year veteran, Board of Global EHS Credentialing Impact Award winner
James Junkin: Trainer of 40,000+ safety pros, ASSP's 2024 Safety Professional of the Year
They're tackling the topics that keep safety managers up at night featuring guests from regulatory bodies to safety directors and everything in between.
Every Tuesday: The tough conversations safety managers need to have. Critical insights from safety experts. Real-world strategies. Actionable solutions.
The Risk Matrix Podcast is powered by Veriforce: Bringing workers home safe from high-hazard jobs. Learn more at www.veriforce.com
30 min - Using AI to Improve Your Safety Practice with Todd Hudson
"With AI, you can practice these difficult safety conversations, like convincing a CFO or interviewing a reluctant witness, again and again and again, which you can't do with a human."
Season 4 is here! This week Dr. Logan F. Martin and James Junkin kick off the new season with Todd Hudson, President of Maverick Safety Training, to explore how safety professionals can use AI as a role-playing tool to prepare for the conversations that matter most, from making the case for budget to a cost-conscious CFO to practicing incident investigation interviews before you ever set foot on a real scene.
Stick around for the end of this episode, where Dr. Martin throws down a challenge, James accepts, and Todd agrees to come back for a live AI role-play scenario.
ABOUT OUR GUEST
Todd Hudson, M.S. Engineering, is President of Maverick Safety Training and has spent more than twenty years helping safety professionals become great trainers. A former high-tech factory manager, Todd applies Lean methodology to training and knowledge transfer, with experience across copper mines, hospitals, warehouses, and more. He is a frequent conference speaker and contributor to publications including Chief Learning Officer Magazine and the New York Times.
RESOURCES
Maverick Safety Training: https://mavericksafetraining.com
Todd Hudson on AI Role-Playing for Safety Pros: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JT4fl-LC4tI
ABOUT THE RISK MATRIX PODCAST
Buckle up, safety pros! The Risk Matrix brings you a weekly podcast masterclass in risk management, hosted by two industry titans:
Dr. L.F. Martin: 32-year veteran, Board of Global EHS Credentialing Impact Award winner
James Junkin: Trainer of 40,000+ safety pros, ASSP's 2024 Safety Professional of the Year
They're tackling the topics that keep safety managers up at night featuring guests from regulatory bodies to safety directors and everything in between.
Every Tuesday: The tough conversations safety managers need to have. Critical insights from safety experts. Real-world strategies. Actionable solutions.
The Risk Matrix Podcast is powered by Veriforce: Bringing workers home safe from high-hazard jobs. Learn more at www.veriforce.com
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About The Risk Matrix
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The Risk Matrix brings weekly safety conversations that cut through the noise. Hosted by Dr. L.F. Martin (32-year veteran, Board of Global EHS Credentialing Impact Award winner) and James Junkin (ASSP's 2024 Safety Professional of the Year), they tackle OSHA rollbacks, legal trends, and the topics keeping safety managers up at night. Featuring guests from regulators to frontline leaders.
New episodes every Tuesday.
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