Safety Wars
Safety from a point of view that you didn't see coming.
Episodes
Title: Who Enforced the Pandemic? COVID-19 Accountability and the Safety Professionals Left Behind
Summary:
Jim Poesl examines Dr. Fauci's Senate hearing on COVID-19, where he invoked the Fifth Amendment 111 times despite a federal pardon. Rather than pursuing "pain for pain," Jim argues real accountability requires harder questions about evidence, authority, and decision-making. He critiques how "face coverings" were promoted instea...
Summary: In this special live episode, Jimmy Poesl reacts to Dr. Fauci's Senate testimony, where Fauci repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment despite having immunity and a pardon. Poesl argues safety professionals were unfairly blamed for enforcing pandemic policies they didn't create, damaging trust between workers and safety staff. He critiques how COVID communication ignored established respiratory protection science (NIOSH stan...
Jim opens Safety Wars with legal disclaimers before riffing on simulation theory, prompted by a Safety FM symposium with Todd Conklin, Nick Weatherly, and Jay Allen, exploring manipulation, behavior-based safety vs. human/organizational performance, and coincidences suggesting we're "living in a simulation." He covers Supreme Court security concerns tied to threats against justices, then transitions into world news: US strikes on I...
Safety Wars 7-9-2026
Safety Wars Recap: Paperwork, Fitness Tests, and Flock Cameras
Jim opens Safety Wars with disclaimers on OSHA/EPA citations, then covers severe flooding in the Northeast, including the washed-out Palisades Parkway near West Point — a reminder to know local roads and have backup routes.
The main segment focuses on safety paperwork, invoking Marshall McLuhan's idea that "the medium changes the mess...
Safety Wars 7-8-2026 Safe+Sound Week, HHS News and the Presidential Fitness Test Returns
im opens this July 8th episode of Safety Words with a legal disclaimer about citations and news sourcing, then previews Monday's live Reality Shift event in Orlando featuring Nick Weatherly, Todd Conklin, and Jay Allen. He highlights OSHA's Safe+Sound Week (August 10-16), detailing program challenges and benefits for workplace safety culture, wh...
Whale Rescue, Building Collapse & the "Missing Middle": Safety Wars Breaks Down This Week's Wildest Headlines
Jim kicks off with a wild story from his home turf in New Jersey — Carteret firefighters had to be rescued after their Marine Unit boat was struck and sunk by a surfacing whale near the Arthur Kill. He riffs on the irony that whales and even pods of them are now returning to waters he grew up swimming and crabbing ...
Safety Wars Live 6-30-2026 Monsanto v. Darnell, Birthright Citizenship, and Why Demographics Are Destiny
On this episode of Safety Wars Jim opens with a legal deep-dive into Monsanto Company v. Darnell, a Supreme Court decision (6-3, opinion by Kavanaugh) holding that federal FIFRA labeling requirements preempt Missouri state tort claims requiring Roundup cancer warnings, since the EPA had approved the label without one. Justice Jac...
Summary:
In this episode of Safety Wars, host Jim opens with a personal note about his son's middle school moving-up ceremony before diving into the week's regulatory news. He covers a Department of Labor consent order requiring three Maine sports bars to pay over $51,000 in back wages for wage and child labor violations, and a $1.73 million recovery for 1,666 workers at a Ford EV battery plant whose employer improperly excluded bon...
Safety in Context — Explaining the "Why" to Build Compliance
In this episode of Safety Wars, Jim opens with reflections on a Father's Day baseball tournament before diving into a core safety philosophy: the critical importance of explaining the "why" behind safety rules. Using real-world examples — a fatal confined space incident at the Valero refinery in Delaware, mercury vapor exposure on job sites, and PPE compl...
In this episode of Safety Wars, host Jim opens with personal reflections — marking four years since his father's passing and celebrating his Aunt Sophie's 90th birthday. He then dives into a Wall Street Journal story about a fermented food diet sweeping through Trump's cabinet, including RFK Jr., JD Vance, and others swearing by sauerkraut and grass-fed meat for dramatic health results.
Jim pivots to the New York Knicks' first...
Safety Wars — June 17, 2026: Labor Violations, EPA Cleanups, Iran Deal Fallout & More
In this wide-ranging episode of Safety Wars, host Jim covers breaking news and regulatory updates across labor, environmental, and geopolitical fronts.
On the labor side, the U.S. Department of Labor secured a $750,000 federal court judgment against four Washington State restaurants for wage theft, overtime violations, child labor ...
Safety Wars – June 16, 2026: US-Iran Ceasefire Deal, Nyack Tunnel Girls, and Rising Antisemitism
In this episode of Safety Wars, host Jim Poesl covers three main topics. First, he breaks down the emerging US-Iran memorandum of understanding, walking through a 12-point framework reported by the New York Post and Al Arabiya that outlines a ceasefire, temporary sanctions relief, Strait of Hormuz passage guarantees, and a 60-day n...
Host Jim opens with a rallying cry for safety professionals to develop backbone and resist servile behavior on the job site. He promotes Safety FM's upcoming Reality Shift symposium featuring Todd Conklin, Nick Weatherly, and Jay Allen, and reviews breaking world news — including U.S.-Iran tensions, rising inflation, and the EU's ruling against Meta. Jim covers Acting Labor Secretary Sonderling's G7 appearance in Geneva, high...
Safety Wars 6-9-2026 Safety Theater Is Killing People
Host Jim Poesl returns after a hiatus to address listener comments and cover recent safety and news topics. He opens by critiquing micro-level accident prediction models, arguing they're inherently flawed because safety professionals correct hazards as they find them, skewing any data. He stresses that without authority to hire, fire, or discipline, safety pros have limited power...
Safety Wars Live 5-26-2026
Jim critiques "zero incident" culture through a satirical "Ancient Safety Professionals" video segment, arguing that zero-injury programs often suppress reporting rather than prevent harm.
Jim challenges the safety industry's over reliance on trend data and statistics, using a roulette analogy to illustrate how injury patterns are often unpredictable — focusing on hand injuries won't prevent the next ...
Overview: Jim Poesl hosts this episode of Safety Wars, a safety industry podcast/videocast with a satirical bent.
Key segments:
- Ancient Safety Professionals launch — Jim announces a new short-form web series parodying workplace safety culture, framed as a future archaeological discovery of "safety professionals." The trailer and Episode 1 are previewed, focusing on the ritual of the sign-in sheet as a form of "safety theate...
Safety Wars 5/20/26 Blame vs. Solutions, NY Construction Deaths & WHO Update
In this May 20, 2026 episode of Safety Wars, host Jim Poesl opens with a discussion on the ineffectiveness of employee-blaming in accident investigations, advocating instead for systemic fixes rooted in HOP (Human and Organizational Performance) principles. He illustrates this with a practical story about ladder label compliance — showing ho...
Safety Wars 5-19-2026 Part 1 Interview with Jennifer Coffey President, NJ School of Conservation
This is part of our ongoing mission to educate, inform and motivate our supporters.
Today Jim welcomes Jennifer Coffey, Executive Director of ANJEC and board president of the Friends of the New Jersey School of Conservation, joins host Jim to discuss the proposed elimination of the NJ School of Conservation from Governor Chery...
Safety Wars 5-19-2026 Part 1 Interview with Jennifer Coffey President, NJ School of Conservation
This is part of our ongoing mission to educate, inform and motivate our supporters.
Today Jim welcomes Jennifer Coffey, Executive Director of ANJEC and board president of the Friends of the New Jersey School of Conservation, joins host Jim to discuss the proposed elimination of the NJ School of Conservation from Governor Chery...
In this episode of Safety Wars, host Jim covers a wide range of regulatory, safety, and current events topics. Jim opens with personal health reflections, advocating for seeking proper medical care for chronic conditions like high blood pressure rather than relying on home remedies.
The show features an FSN Radio News segment covering UK political turmoil, US-China trade talks between Presidents Trump and Xi Jinping, and rising Euro...
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