DisasterCast Safety Podcast

This episode of DisasterCast covers the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, and “Normal Accidents”, one possible explana... Read more

DisasterCast Episode 4 – Chernobyl, Safety Culture, and Zero Harm. Was Chernobyl a result of technical failings, or Sovi... Read more

DisasterCast Episode 3 – Coal mine disasters, risk acceptance, and personal electronic devices on aircraft. When did sys... Read more

This is an episode about large piles falling over. We start with the physics of sandcastles, and move quickly toRead mor... Read more

DisasterCast Episode 7 – USS Thresher, Hazard Identification, and Star Wars In this episode we discuss the worst ever su... Read more

Episode 45 of DisasterCast tries something a little different. This episode has three different stories of exactly the s... Read more

Sean Ellis visits DisasterCast this episode to provide a detailed discussion of TWA 800 and the associated conspiracy th... Read more

The Feynman Gap is the gulf between engineering understanding of risk, and management understanding of risk. The concept... Read more

DisasterCast Episode 5, featuring Claire Benson (@pyroclaire). Episode covers the 1987 Kings Cross Underground fire, res... Read more

This episode dives into the background of the Columbia Space Shuttle Disaster. It also discusses the aftermath of a US M... Read more

We’re up to 30 episodes of DisasterCast, and we still haven’t talked about the Titanic. Why start now? This episodeRead ... Read more

This is the second “Two Cents Worth of Safety” by Ron Gantt. Regular DisasterCast has been slightly delayed, and willRea... Read more

In the 1970s and 1980s there was a series of accidents which triggered a really intensive examination of organisational ... Read more

DisasterCast has covered some pretty weird topics. We’ve dealt with pilot defenestration, spontaneous human combustion, ... Read more

Safety engineering and management is full of compromises. We compromise between short term and long term risk. We compro... Read more

This episode examines the Apollo 13 accident, and ways in which movies such as Die Hard influence safety in realRead mor... Read more

In 1999, at a place called Glenbrook, just outside of Sydney, Australia, two trains collided killing seven people. In 20... Read more

This episode discusses a few aspects of preflight briefings on passenger aircraft. In particular, we look into accidents... Read more

This episode addresses seven questions about bicycles and safety: How dangerous is cycling compared to walking or riding... Read more

This episode features the BP Texas City Refinery explosion of 2005. Unlike most accidents featured on the show, it isRea... Read more