WhyWork Podcast
The WhyWork Podcast is an organisational strategy session and legal dissection of workplace events that are laced with humour. Your bloggers, Alan, Trajce, and Sara, explore the contemporary and uncomfortable realities of work and the boundaries that are tested. Alan and Trajce dismantle case law and Sara pushes all to consider how to redesign the world of work so that business objectives are realised and that people thrive. Good stories are told. The WhyWork team throws shade on some of the stories and the people involved as they consider defensible and remarkable work design strategy. When you listen to the WhyWork Podcast, you realise that no skeleton in the workplace closet is too sacred to unearth. It’s like listening to the water cooler gossip but then shit gets real, and it all becomes serious – fast. This is a must-listen for executive and emerging managers, work design strategists, human factors specialists and ergonomists, work health safety and law specialists, organisational scientists, occupational health academics, and anyone humoured by office and workplace antics! Get ready to exclaim, “She said WHAT...?” and “He DIDN’T! OMG!”. Laugh along with us while you learn lots.
Episodes
Season 10 Episode 06: The Circular Saw Case: A Labour Hire Blind Spot
Warning: This episode references workplace injuries and fatalities - we advise listener discretion.
In this subscriber-exclusive episode, the WhyWork team, Alan, Trajce, and Sara, examine a real labour hire incident involving a serious circular saw injury to explore where responsibility begins—and where it ends. “Nothing to see here,” says Alan, &...
S10 E05: The Convergence: Nothing is Out of Bounds
Warning: This episode includes tribute to the life and death of one of the podcast hosts' father. We advise listener discretion if this is a sensitive topic for you.
This episodeexplores why the management of modern work demands integrated thinking. Rather than separating psychosocial hazards, manual handling, critical controls, environmental conditions, and organisational performanc...
Season 10 Episode 04: Turn Down the Chilli in My Con Carne
'Turn Down the Chilli in My Con Carne' explores the tension between compliance and operational excellence. Alan, Trajce, and Sara discuss why workplaces often become consumed by paperwork, while the realities of work continue to evolve much faster than legislation and codes of practice. This episode extends discussion on safety paperwork, introduced in Season 6 Episode 12 &n...
Season 10 Episode 03: Predicting Risk: Why Psychosocial Safety Needs a New Playbook
WARNING: This episode refers to sexual harassment and occupational psychosocial risks – we advise listener discretion.
Meep-meep. The roadrunner—an analogy for the rapidly changing occupational sociocultural landscape.
What happens when psychosocial risk management, industrial relations, human rights, and WHS law intersect?
Season 10 Episode 02: Coyote Ugly - Scandal upon Scandal
WARNING: This episode refers to sexual harassment and cultural prejudice at work – we advise listener discretion.
Trajce laments, “We’ve never mentioned the UK Royals in our podcast – that is fodder for scandal upon scandal, where do we begin? However, we have a good case from the UK involving a Brazilian woman, a bar, and cultural prejudice – it&r...
WARNING: This episode refers to sexual harassment and prejudicial treatment at work – we advise listener discretion.
Alan presents an extract from a complicated UK case—he is focussed on a particular passing comment rather than a binding ruling. In this comment, the aggrieved person complained that a alleged perpetrator labelled him, ‘bald.’ The defendant viewed this as discriminatory and a form of sexual har...
Season 10 Special-Release Bonus 6: Kidney Bean Reflection Series: The Conclusion
O–100 km/h in 3.5 Seconds. But Did You Die?
WARNING: This episode includes discussion about the confronting topic of live organ donation.
Trajce, CJ, and Sara use this episode to conclude the special 6-part reflection series on kidney donation. Alan continued to sun himself in Tassie.
Part 5 of the reflection series ended on a cliffhanger before desc...
Season 10 Special-Release Bonus 5: Kidney Bean Reflection Series
O–100 km/h in 3.5 Seconds. But Did You Die?
WARNING: This episode includes discussion about the confronting topic of live organ donation.
This episode discusses the gamification of kidney donation—when the 'shut down phase' intersects with another person's incessant curiosity. More than a Facebook or TikTok challenge, CJ reflects on this incredible journey an...
Season 10 Special-Release Bonus 4: Kidney Bean Reflection Series
O–100 km/h in 3.5 Seconds. But Did You Die?
Kidney x 3. Friendship x Infinity. Perspective x 1000
WARNING: This episode includes discussion about the confronting topic of live organ donation.
Sara donated a kidney. CJ received it. Trajce joked about it. Alan sunned himself in Tassie.
Months after a life-changing transplant, the WhyWork® team reunites to reflect on fr...
S10 Trailer 4: Travel Back in Time with WhyWork - 10 Seasons of salacious tales, 100's of episode recordings with case law dissection and work re-design gems. Like homemade cooking leftovers - tasty!
S10 Trailer 03: We've got it all - from baldness to Brazilian accents
We spread like a new disease... you want a war by the same TV ... We come in via back force entry, the mugs from Backwater Brissie. Why are you talking shit about the underdogs who never quit?
WhyWork underdog caselaw dissection is returning to the airwaves soon. Check out our special-release episodes until then.
S10: Trailer 2: Turn Down the Chiles in the Con Carne
We're talking about being a good-time girl, when documentation only goes so far, Swimmin' to safety or when SWMS ain't swimmin' upstream at all. Stay tuned, the full episodes for S10 will release soon.
S1o: Trailer 1: Receding hairlines, lap dance moves, and culture clash: Welcome to work.
Are you upset because people are making fun of you at work? Listen to S10 WhyWork - full episode releases coming soon. Hear about how work becomes all-to-human when collegues exploit personal issues like receding hairlines, Coyoto nightclub dancing, and accented variations of spoken English.
S10 Special-Release Bonus: Early Intervention Under Cross Examination – Band-Aids, Bureaucracy, and Better Design
Welcome to this special episode release recording during the launch of the Phoenix Occupational Medicine Early Intervention Done Right Symposium 2026. This episode promises nudity, sex, drugs, and almost rock & roll. The WhyWork Podcast - Alan Girle, Trajce Cvetkovski, and Sara Pazell - examine both serious and...
The second trailer for the Launch of the Phoenix Occupational Medicine Early Intervention Done Right Symposium 2026 - Special Episode Release - promising nudity, sex, drugs, and almost rock & roll. Of course, Sara must shamelessly promote the podcast - voluntarily recorded, produced, and promoted - listen in, subscribe, download, and submit your 5-star rating to keep the @WhyWorkPodcast in the charts!
The second trailer for the Launch of the Phoenix Occupational Medicine Early Intervention Done Right Symposium 2026 - Special Episode Release - promising nudity, sex, drugs, and almost rock & roll.
The first trailer for the Launch of the Phoenix Occupational Medicine Early Intervention Done Right Symposium 2026 - Special Episode Release.
S10: Special-Release Bonus 3: How Far Would You Go For a Workmate?
WARNING: This episode discusses the difficult journey of organ donation, which may confront some listeners – we urge listener discretion before tuning in to this special three-part series.
In this deeply personal and provocative three-part special, Sara, Trajce, and Alan traverse beyond the usual boundaries of work dynamics leading to work health and safety cas...
S10: Special-Release Bonus 2: How Far Would You Go For a Workmate?
WARNING: This episode discusses the difficult journey of organ donation, which may confront some listeners – we urge listener discretion before tuning in to this special three-part series.
In this deeply personal and provocative three-part special, Sara, Trajce, and Alan traverse beyond the usual boundaries of work dynamics leading to work health and safety case...
S10: Special-Release Bonus 1: How Far Would You Go For a Workmate?
WARNING: This episode discusses the difficult journey of organ donation, which may confront some listeners – we urge listener discretion before tuning in to this special three-part series.
In this deeply personal and provocative three-part special, Sara, Trajce, and Alan traverse beyond the usual boundaries of work dynamics leading to work health and safety case...
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