PAPod 593 - Young Voices, System Thinking: A Conversation on Safety with Mousa Yassin

About this episode

Todd Conklin discusses with Mousa Yassin the importance of shifting safety culture towards system design that tolerates failure.

Host Todd chats with Mousa Yassin about shifting safety culture from blaming individuals to designing systems that tolerate failure and recover quickly. They cover life-saving rules, the concept of recoverability, lessons from software engineering like chaos testing, and the importance of learning over punishment. The episode emphasizes practical ways to build resilient systems, nurture learning teams, and make safety training engaging and effective.

People in this episode

Host: Todd Conklin

Guest: Mousa Yassin

Topics covered

• safety culture
• system design
• resilience
• learning teams
• chaos testing

Keywords

• safety
• system thinking
• recoverability
• learning
• training

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