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Podcast: The Occupational Safety Leadership Podcast
Episode: Episode 103 - Solving for Root Cause vs. Company Culture
Description: Episode 103 explores a critical distinction that many organizations miss: the difference between solving the root cause of an incident and addressing the cultural conditions that allowed that root cause to exist in the first place. Dr. Ayers explains why focusing only on technical fixes leads to repeat events—and why culture must be part of every serious investigation.
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Core Message
Root cause analysis fixes what happened. Culture analysis fixes why it was allowed to happen. If you don’t address both, the same problems will return in a different form.
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Key Points from the Episode
1. Root Cause...