Warning: This episode discusses road safety and construction failures.
“A cream bun goes a long way for you,” Alan teases Trajce when Trajce admits that he could never prosecute a baker.
Sara pontificates on a cycle of challenging study pathways that led to opportunities to engage in complex work requiring more of her study and continuous learning. With an audible sigh, Sara realises that she must reconcile the responsibilities that come with this work cycle.
Alan describes a work health and safety legal case when a football club grandstand roof collapsed during construction. The construction workers were fortunate to avoid significant injuries. The podcast crew debate the design cycles of commissioning, manufacture, operation, maintenance, and decommissioning plant and product in work systems.
Sara regales a story about her drive home from her son’s rugby practice when a car sped past theirs while travelling up the wrong side of their neighbouring lane. She adds to the story with another event – a car collision that no one wanted to clean up. “Who’s job is it anyway?” asks Trajce, as he examines the confronting idea of false comforts, “In systems, we blindly trust,” he says.