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🎙️ The Safety Edge Podcast

🎙️ The Safety Edge Podcast

By: The Safety Edge Platform
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The Safety Edge Podcast is an independent leadership and safety education platform exploring how leaders think, decide, and act in complex, high-risk environments. Each episode offers practical insights, real-world experience, and coaching-based reflective dialogue designed to strengthen leadership capability across safety, operations, and organizational life.The Safety Edge Podcast is produced by The Safety Edge Platform, an independent leadership and safety learning initiative. It operates independently and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or associated with any other organization using similar names, past or present, including those with which the host has been affiliated.

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Episodes
  • When Safety Conversations Become Performative | Authentic Leadership & Psychological Safety
    Feb 14 2026

    In this episode of The Safety Edge Podcast, we explore how safety conversations can shift from genuine engagement to performative leadership. Through a real-world workplace scenario, we unpack the hidden risks of compliance-driven dialogue, the pressure to “look safe,” and how performative behaviors quietly erode psychological safety and weaken safety culture.

    We dive into why authentic safety conversations are critical for building trust, fostering engagement, and driving lasting safety performance. Whether you’re a safety leader, manager, or part of a high-risk team, this episode will help you recognize when safety dialogue becomes performative and how to restore authenticity to your workplace conversations.

    Key takeaways:

    • How performative behaviors undermine real safety improvement
    • Signs your team may be “performing” safety rather than practicing it
    • Practical ways to foster psychological safety and honest feedback
    • The leadership shift from appearance to authenticity

    Tune in and learn how authentic leadership and meaningful dialogue can transform your safety culture and create environments where people truly speak up, learn, and grow.

    Keywords: safety conversations, performative leadership, psychological safety, safety culture, authentic leadership, safety podcast, workplace safety

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    20 mins
  • The Door Was Open, But the Space Wasn’t: Psychological Safety, Speaking Up & Safety Leadership
    Feb 7 2026

    When leaders appear approachable but fail to create real space, silence can replace trust. In this episode of The Safety Edge Podcast, Charles Sampson explores psychological safety, speaking up at work, and safety leadership, showing how to build trust, dialogue, and engagement in high-risk workplaces.

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    17 mins
  • When Leaders Don’t Hear the Bad News
    Jan 31 2026

    The episode explores the dilemma of speaking up in a culture of silence, where leaders face the challenge of addressing safety concerns in an environment resistant to bad news. It delves into the impact of coaching-based leadership and the strategies for creating a culture of trust and truth.

    Takeaways

    • Coaching-based leadership approach
    • Silence as a response to conditions

    Chapters

    • 00:00 Insights and Reflections
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    20 mins
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