{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsafetyofwork.com%2Fepisodes%2Fep-137-are-we-lying-about-our-safety-performance-D149YV5B","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Ep. 137: Are we lying about our safety performance? ","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/85340d78-f14a-4b44-aed5-cfed7f27676b/c21a83d2-7a12-4989-8068-a7887f42d892/cropped_1790039222769.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/5aae049a-be93-4f0f-8214-1e7e37494a36\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"Ep. 137: Are we lying about our safety performance? \" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"Returning after a summer break, David Provan and Drew Rae ask an uncomfortable question: are we lying about our safety performance? They examine Jan Hayes, Sarah Maslen, and Paul Schulman's 2024 Safety Science paper, \"A Case of Collective Lying: How Deceit Becomes Entrenched in Organisational Safety Behaviour,\" a case study of Pacific Gas and Electric's decade-long falsification of pipeline locate-and-mark records — a scandal that produced $110 million in fines after a 2009 whistleblower complaint. The hosts unpack how routine, high-consequence safety work quietly became a numbers game."}