Welcome to Season 6 and the 130th episode of the podcast show HOP Into Action.In this episode of HOP Into Action, Brent Sutton reframes safety rules from “controlling people” to supporting work. We trace the history of rules from factory-era prohibitions, Taylorist scripts, and audit checklists to today’s HOP mindset, and then show how to make rules useful at the job.
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Learning Teams versus RCA - Insights from Healthcare
Welcome to Season 6 and the 129th episode of the podcast show HOP Into Action.Today, I reflect on a research article from the Journal of Patient Safety detailing an evaluation of different incident investigation methods within a large United Kingdom National Health Service (NHS) hospital. The study compares the outcomes of Learning Teams with the traditional Root Cause Analysis (RCA) approach for adverse healthcare events. The authors found that Learning Teams generated significantly more actions and a higher percentage of system-focused actions, which are considered more effective compared to RCA. Furthermore, qualitative interviews revealed that Learning Teams foster a more open and less blame-focused culture and involve a wider range of staff than RCA, leading to more robust, system-level solutions for preventing future incidents.
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Safe As with Ben Hutchinson - Part Two
Welcome to Season 6 and the 128th episode of the podcast show HOP Into Action.Today, we conclude the discussion with Ben Hutchinson. Ben is not only a seasoned senior health and safety leader, but he also has a deep interest in safety research.Ben operates the site safetyinsights.org and is the host of “Safe As” podcast, where he posts and talks about safety research summaries in a way that is relatable for others to learn from.The second part of the discussion centers on current research and areas for future safety focus.So please sit back and enjoy this series of HOP into Action.
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Safe As with Ben Hutchinson - Part One
Welcome to Season 6 and the 127th episode of the podcast show HOP Into Action.Today is part one of a two-part series with Ben Hutchinson. Ben is not only a seasoned senior health and safety leader, but he also has a deep interest in safety research.Ben operates the site safetyinsights.org and is the host of Safe As podcast, where he posts and talks about safety research summaries in a way that is relatable for others to learn from.Ben explains his motivation for posting academic research online: the frustration that valuable safety research is often locked behind paywalls, making it inaccessible to the practitioners who need it to improve their work. And he stresses the importance of cultivating curiosity among safety practitioners regarding the existing body of knowledge.
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Stop managing by metrics and start managing by meaning
Welcome to Season 6 and Episode 126 of the HOP Into Action Podcast Series. In this episode, Brent Sutton explores the origins of learning from work and how it became a cornerstone of Human and Organizational Performance. He unpacks why everyday adaptations and weak signals matter, why leadership’s role is less about control and more about curiosity, and the real danger of normalising work when things look “all green.” Through stories and reflections, Brent shows how learning makes the invisible visible — turning tacit knowledge into shared understanding, and creating the conditions for BetterWork.
HOP Into Action is a podcast of the broadcast that can be heard on Safety FM. The show is an ongoing discussion about building a better community of practice for people and organizations who want to improve safety, quality and operational excellence using HOP, Learning Teams, 4Ds and other learning framework. The host of the podcast, Brent Sutton, explores through conversation, diversity of thought and reflection the organizational challenges and learning opportunities that can be identified and improved on by using HOP and Learning Teams for Normal Everyday Work, Management of Change to create betterwork. For those of you in safety, it is about moving from preventative safety to productive safety and creating sustainable practice and improvement in operstions.
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