MEMIC Safety Experts

About MEMIC Safety Experts

Because safety is more than just a policy, practice, or personal protective equipment, the MEMIC Safety Experts Podcast hosted by Peter Koch will interview industry leaders every two weeks on the trends, tools, and techniques that are tried, tested, or emerging in the world of workplace safety. What you learn could save your life or the life of a friend or coworker, or at least save everyone from a few unnecessary cuts, burns and bruises. Make your work, and world, a safer place.

Publisher

Peter Koch

Category

business · health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

30 Mar 2020

Latest episode

17 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

113 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   17 Sept 2026

   A Consolidation of Safety Subtleties: How to Build Resilient Safety Systems with Jake Mazulewicz

   Why do organizations continue to experience serious incidents even after implementing policies, procedures, training programs, audits, and investigations? The answer may lie in the gap between Work as Imagined and Work as Done. In Part One of this two-part episode of the MEMIC Safety Experts Podcast, host Peter Koch sits down with human reliability consultant, educator, and author Jake Mazulewicz to explore the often-overlooked factors that influence human performance, workplace safety, and organizational reliability. Using real-world examples from manufacturing, emergency response, utilities, and other high-consequence industries, Jake explains why traditional approaches focused solely on compliance, rule enforcement, and blame frequently fail to deliver the safety outcomes leaders expect. Instead, he introduces listeners to the concepts of psychological safety, learning-based leadership, tacit knowledge, and what he calls a "consolidation of subtleties" – the small details that often reveal how work is really accomplished. Whether you're a safety professional, operational leader, supervisor, HR professional, business owner, or someone interested in human and organizational performance (HOP), this episode provides actionable strategies to improve workplace safety, strengthen trust, and build more resilient organizations.

2. 

   27 Jul 2026

   Saving Lives in the Trades - How the Practice of Leadership Creates Safer Workplaces with Jenn Ruggerio

   MEMIC Safety Experts host Jenn Ruggerio explores how effective leadership practices cultivate safer workplaces and prevent injuries in the trades.

3. 

   13 Jul 2026

   The Confluence of Human Resources and Workplace Safety with Michelle Allen

   Host Peter Koch interviews MEMIC Chief Human Resources Officer Michelle Allen about aligning HR and safety for a people-first culture that boosts engagement and organizational performance.

Who has been a guest on MEMIC Safety Experts

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Jenn Ruggerio
• Michelle Allen
• Jay Carter
• James Burke
• Rob Tice

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

7,423

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

18 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 68 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

77

Social presence

0

YouTube

68

Engagement

77

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