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Safety Heroes Podcast With Mousa Yassin

Safety Heroes Podcast With Mousa Yassin

Mousa Yassin 60 episodes Oct 29, 2026

The Health, Safety and Environment field is made up of everyday people who act as real-life heroes, working to create safe workplaces and strong safety cultures. The podcast celebrates these professionals, whose priority is making sure everyone returns home unharmed and that wellbeing and the planet remain core considerations. It aims to inspire others in HSE to think differently, improve safety management plans and learn collectively. Episodes also explore the human and emotional side of working on the safety frontline, helping make HSE a cornerstone of company culture.

Episodes

#61 - Todd Conklin - Why the Best Safety Systems Assume Failure
#61 - Todd Conklin - Why the Best Safety Systems Assume Failure Oct 29, 2026 44:30 Todd Conklin doesn't think safety is about preventing failure. He thinks it's about being ready to recover from it.Todd — 30 years at Los Alamos National Laboratory as a senior advisor for organisational and safety culture, author of 14 books including The 5 Principles of Human Performance, host of Pre-Accident Investigation: The Podcast for over 12 years, and widely considered the godfa
#60 - Amy Edmondson - Better Teams Made More Mistakes. Here's Why.
#60 - Amy Edmondson - Better Teams Made More Mistakes. Here's Why. Sep 24, 2026 44:19 A young PhD student ran the numbers and found that the best-performing hospital teams had the highest error rates. That result made no sense — until she realized better teams don't make more mistakes. They report more of them.Amy Edmondson, Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School and the researcher who coined "psychological safety," joins Mousa to
#59 - Angelo Spingardi - Safety Has No Finish Line: 17 Years Running Safety at Saipem
#59 - Angelo Spingardi - Safety Has No Finish Line: 17 Years Running Safety at Saipem Jul 16, 2026 35:54 Angelo Spingardi runs HSEQ — health, safety, environment and quality — across Saipem's 118 operational sites worldwide, from offshore platforms to construction sites across the energy transition. He's been inside the company for 17 years, starting as an environmental engineer before being embedded into Saipem's safety functions.In this episode he shared the personal loss that shaped
#58 - Kathy Seabrook - Put Safety on the P&L: How to Sell the Business Case for Safety to the C-Suite
#58 - Kathy Seabrook - Put Safety on the P&L: How to Sell the Business Case for Safety to the C-Suite Jun 18, 2026 46:27 Kathy Seabrook — Founder & CEO of Global Solutions Inc. and a standards architect on ISO 45001 and ANSI Z10 — joins Mousa to make the case that safety has always been the people side of sustainability. She walks through "impact valuation": putting the value workers create onto the P&L using data finance already understands. It's a conversation about money that keeps coming b
#57 - Dan Hobbs - AI Vision = Guardian Angel: How Dan Hobbs Is Rewiring Safety with AI Vision
#57 - Dan Hobbs - AI Vision = Guardian Angel: How Dan Hobbs Is Rewiring Safety with AI Vision May 21, 2026 33:42 Dan Hobbs did not set out to build a safety company. He and his co-founder Ciarán O’Mara started with a question: why do so many workplace fatalities get called freak accidents, when the CCTV footage usually shows the same behaviour patterns happening every day on the same site?Four years later, Protex AI plugs into existing CCTV infrastructure at Fortune 500 sites in 36 countries to surface unsaf
#56 - Bryce Griffler - The Hidden Cost of Hiding: Authentic Leadership, Imposter Syndrome & Workplace Safety
#56 - Bryce Griffler - The Hidden Cost of Hiding: Authentic Leadership, Imposter Syndrome & Workplace Safety Apr 2, 2026 56:04 What if the shell you've built to protect yourself at work is actually the thing holding you back — and putting others at risk?Bryce Griffler is the co-founder of Safety Is For Everyone and Global Program Manager, Safety & EHS Assurance at Google. His journey spans systems engineering, leading critical national infrastructure manufacturing at BAE Systems through COVID, and building EHS pr
#55 - Thomas Krause - Decisions That Set the Stage: The Leadership Cultures That Make Incidents Happen
#55 - Thomas Krause - Decisions That Set the Stage: The Leadership Cultures That Make Incidents Happen Mar 19, 2026 42:20 What if the biggest safety failures in history weren't caused by reckless workers but by leadership decisions made years earlier?Dr. Tom Krause is the Founder of Krause Bell Group and one of the most respected voices in safety leadership. Over his career, he conducted over 2,300 consulting projects across 60 countries, and after the Columbia space shuttle tragedy, his firm was selected to lea
#54 - Ergin Akbaş - How to Set Up Systems for Success: On HSE and Systems that Work for the Frontline
#54 - Ergin Akbaş - How to Set Up Systems for Success: On HSE and Systems that Work for the Frontline Feb 5, 2026 47:06 Today, we're excited to share our latest Safety Heroes episode with Ergin Akbas.With over a decade at AVANGRID managing EHS systems across wind farms, solar projects, and critical infrastructure serving 3 million customers, Ergin has learned one truth: systems only work when they're built WITH the people who use them, not FOR them. He shares stories about achieving zero findings during I
#53 - Fuzzy Bitar - Putting Safety Back in the Line: On Proportionality, Supervisor Leverage & Point-of-Work AI
#53 - Fuzzy Bitar - Putting Safety Back in the Line: On Proportionality, Supervisor Leverage & Point-of-Work AI Dec 17, 2025 32:48 Episode SummaryFuzzy Bitar has led safety and operations at global scale, including serving as bp’s Senior Vice President for HSE & Carbon and chairing the International Association of Oil & Gas Producers (IOGP). He’s known for a plain-spoken, human-first approach that keeps ownership where it belongs: in the line. In this conversation, Fuzzy goes beyond slogans. He explains why “good oper
#52 - Tim Page-Bottorff - Game On for Safety: How to Drive Engagement for Zero-Harm Culture
#52 - Tim Page-Bottorff - Game On for Safety: How to Drive Engagement for Zero-Harm Culture Jul 23, 2025 43:43 Tim Page‐Bottorff didn’t “choose” safety—he was drawn to it, and has spent his career transforming how organizations think about risk, culture, and technology. In this episode, the ASSP Vice-President of Safety shares the defining moments that shaped his journey from Marine‐trained leader to industry innovator. You’ll hear how he turned PPE drills into gamified challenges, built trust with a simpl
#51 - Declan Davis - Bringing AI and Empathy to the Frontline: On Why Safety Is Human
#51 - Declan Davis - Bringing AI and Empathy to the Frontline: On Why Safety Is Human Apr 10, 2025 45:15 Declan Davis isn’t just leading safety from the top—he’s walked the path from the site to the boardroom. As Health and Safety Director at Ferrovial, Declan brings a deeply human approach to leadership, shaped by years of hands-on experience in the field. In this episode of The Safety Heroes Podcast, he reflects on his journey from site engineer to safety director, sharing how his passion for conne
#50 - Steff Williams - Why I Do What I Do: On Putting People First in Safety
#50 - Steff Williams - Why I Do What I Do: On Putting People First in Safety Apr 3, 2025 34:28 In this powerful episode of The Safety Heroes Podcast, we sit down with Steff Williams, Director of Safety for Sonoco Europe and APAC. From his humble beginnings on a farm on the west coast of Scotland to leading safety for over 25,000 employees across more than 300 sites globally, Steff shares how his early values of hard work and care for others shaped his people-first approach to safety. He ope

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