Safety news with the guardrails off.
Safety Wars treats workplace safety as a live wire running through regulation, politics, human error, and incentives. Jim Pozle moves quickly from OSHA citations and Department of Labor actions to protests, drones, Iran, and the habits that make systems fail.
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Safety Wars is a safety-news monologue with sharp elbows and a wide map. Jim Pozle starts from workplace safety, then follows the pressure lines into politics, law, labor, religion, and security. The show’s core material is practical: OSHA actions, EPA items, Department of Labor releases, whistleblower protections, minimum-wage rules, tip-credit disputes, and human and organizational performance. It does not stay inside the compliance box. A segment on worker error can become a question about rule changes, system design, and whether management is ready for the consequences of higher-error conditions. A labor enforcement item can turn into a larger point about incentives and who pays when rules are bent. News and Views episodes move fast. The show may jump from automakers and weapons production to Catholic communities in conflict zones, from No Kings demonstrations to election-season protest concerns, or from drone sightings near federal sites to the way environmental work now uses unmanned aircraft. The connective tissue is risk. Pozle is interested in rule changes, reaction to failure, and the stories organizations tell after something goes wrong. Human and organizational performance is one of the show’s steadier anchors. It appears through discussions of autopilot behavior, knowledge gaps, executive function, PDMA, procedures, and the difference between changing a rule and changing a system. The delivery is informal and sometimes ragged. Repeated sponsor and network material can frame the episodes, and some news blocks arrive as outside reporting rather than polished feature segments. That roughness is part of the experience. Safety Wars feels closer to a live bulletin board with a strongly opinionated guide than to a scripted business podcast. It can be grim, technical, and politically charged within the same stretch. The show is most useful when it turns messy public events into safety questions: who had authority, what incentive was created, what behavior was predictable, and what recovery was possible. It is built for listeners who already care about workers, systems, and consequences. It is not neutral background audio. It is a pointed, sometimes chaotic audit of the world through a safety lens.
Made for: For safety professionals, operations managers, consultants, and regulation watchers who want OSHA and workplace-risk news with blunt context. It also fits listeners interested in how public events, politics, and incentives affect real-world safety.
What sets it apart: Safety Wars stands apart by refusing to keep safety inside a narrow compliance lane. It connects citations, lawsuits, human-error theory, protests, military alerts, and global news through one recurring question: what system made this behavior likely?
Safety from a point of view that you didn't see coming.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
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OSHA rules collide with census skepticism and world news, giving you compliance talk with the blinkers off.
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Context drives behavior.
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Rules change the system.
Tips are not management's piggy bank.
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The host discusses the upcoming No Kings rallies on Saturday, warning about potential safety issues and comparing them to previous large-scale protests during election season.
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First, it is all runway.
The episode promotes a program and resources for safety professionals to transition into profitable consulting careers.
The episode promotes a safety consulting business program and a book trilogy on safety culture and consciousness.
The episode promotes a program and resources for safety professionals to transition into profitable consulting careers.
The episode promotes a program and resources for safety professionals to transition into profitable consulting careers.
This episode promotes a program and book series for safety professionals to start a profitable consulting business and gain more freedom.
The episode promotes a program and book series aimed at helping safety professionals start their own consulting businesses for more freedom and control.
This episode promotes a safety consulting business program and a book trilogy on safety culture and consciousness.
This episode promotes safety professionals transitioning to consulting for more freedom and control, featuring the host's personal success story and his coaching program.
This episode promotes a program and resources for safety professionals to transition into profitable consulting careers.
This episode promotes a program and resources for safety professionals to transition into profitable consulting careers.
This episode promotes a program and book series aimed at helping safety professionals start their own consulting business for more freedom and control.
This episode promotes a program and resources for safety professionals to start their own consulting business, emphasizing freedom and financial control.
This episode promotes a program and resources for safety professionals to transition into profitable consulting careers.
This episode promotes safety consulting as a path to greater freedom and control, featuring a book trilogy on safety consciousness.
This episode promotes a program and book series aimed at helping safety professionals start their own consulting business for more freedom and income.
This episode promotes a program and resources for safety professionals to transition into profitable consulting careers.
The episode promotes a program and resources for safety professionals to transition into profitable consulting careers.
This episode introduces a program that helps safety professionals transition from traditional roles to starting their own profitable consulting businesses for greater freedom and control.
This episode promotes a safety consulting business program and a book trilogy on safety philosophy.
Sheldon Primus promotes his safety consulting business resources and books, emphasizing how safety professionals can gain freedom and control by transitioning to consulting.
This episode promotes safety consulting as a career path for safety professionals seeking more freedom and control, while also advertising related books and resources.
This episode promotes a safety consulting business program and a book trilogy on safety philosophy.
This episode promotes transitioning from safety professional to safety consultant for greater freedom and control, featuring the host's personal success story and his coaching program.
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The episode promotes a program and resources for safety professionals to start their own consulting business, emphasizing freedom and profitability.
This episode promotes a program and book series aimed at helping safety professionals transition into profitable consulting careers.