Safety Unpacked - Learning or Blaming? with Amy Morris
From Women in Safety Podcast by Women in Safety Podcast
June 9, 2026 · 34 min · Season 4 · Episode 15
About this episode
Alanna Ball and Amy Morris discuss the complexities of incident investigations and the systemic issues behind safety events.
In this episode of the Women in Safety Podcast , Alanna Ball and Amy Morris take a closer look at incident investigations and the bigger system issues that often sit behind safety events. Rather than defaulting to worker blame or behaviour-based explanations, they explore what happens when controls are poorly designed, hard to apply, or simply do not hold up in real working conditions. The conversation highlights why incident investigations need to go beyond surface-level findings and ask better questions about how work is actually done. Alanna and Amy discuss the importance of classifying incidents properly, understanding the difference between workable and unworkable controls, and looking at the wider organisational conditions that shape risk and decision-making. Episode Highlights Why correct incident classification matters when deciding where effort and resources should go How many incidents involve controls that are difficult or unrealistic to apply in real-world conditions The difference between easy, difficult, and unworkable controls, and why that matters in prevention Common examples of control failure, including broken equipment, impractical PPE, and the workarounds…
People in this episode
Host: Alanna Ball
Guest: Amy Morris
Topics covered
- incident investigations
- safety events
- system design
- organizational culture
- risk management
- control failures
Keywords
- incident classification
- safety controls
- organizational conditions
- worker blame
- control design
- safety culture
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