EHS Curated Podcasts Update for July 2026
What EHS Professionals Are Talking About Right Now: 8 Episodes Worth Your Time
Here's a roundup of recent episodes from the Recommended EHS Podcasts for 2026 playlist, curated for subscribers of The Safety Training Net.
This update covers everything from lithium-ion battery risk, OSHA litigation, heat stress economics, proactive safety culture, and what it takes to run a company for 100 years in a high-hazard industry. Here's what stood out.
1. Lithium-Ion Batteries: Navigating the Risks Safety Leaders Should Address
Beyond Prequalification
If your job sites involve lithium-ion batteries — and increasingly, they all do — this episode is required listening. Host David Tibbetts talks with Miki Alroy of Commonwealth Risk Management Group about thermal runaway, why standard fire suppression methods can fail with these batteries, and the practical steps any organization can take now: better charging and storage protocols, inspection programs, emergency planning, and smarter battery procurement. The message is clear: this isn't a future risk. It's already on your sites.
2. 'Stay Safe, Stay Healthy, and Rock and Roll!' with Attorney Adele Abrams
The Accidental Safety Pro
Adele Abrams has one of the more unusual origin stories in the profession — she came from rock-and-roll radio and television before becoming one of the country's most recognized OSHA and MSHA attorneys. Host Jill sits down with her for a wide-ranging conversation covering decades of workplace fatality investigations, the art of 'holistic settlements' that require real training improvements, and her frank take on the growing politicization of safety regulation. Her advice for staying current in a shifting regulatory landscape is practical and worth taking notes on. A career retrospective with real substance.
3. Why Most Incident Investigations Stop Too Soon
The Risk Matrix
Dr. Logan F. Martin and James Junkin tackle a frustration many safety professionals share: investigations that close the file at the proximate cause and call it done. The episode unpacks the difference between direct, underlying, and root causes — and why skipping to the easy answer is exactly why the same incidents keep repeating. Built around Dr. Martin's July 2026 article on the topic, this is a tight, focused episode that gives you a framework to bring back to your next investigation.
4. Four Alarms in Three Weeks: A Safety Professional's Hotel Wake-Up Call
Process Safety with Trish & Traci
A lighter episode in format, but with a genuinely useful point underneath it. After experiencing multiple fire alarms — including a 3 a.m. evacuation and a real fire in Toronto — Trish reflects on how unprepared most people are when emergencies happen away from a familiar environment. If you've ever thought about how personal emergency preparedness extends beyond the workplace, this short episode is a good nudge.
5. Harnessing the Viral Nature of an Idea
Safety Culture Excellence®
Shawn Galloway of ProAct Safety makes a compact but worthwhile case for building systems that actively motivate idea-sharing across your organization. The central question: are you creating conditions where good safety ideas spread, or do they die in a suggestion box? Short episode, single idea, well executed.
6. Proactive Safety Management with Gretchen Haskins
Safety Labs by Safety Products Global
This one challenges a tendency that runs deep in EHS: spending most of your energy managing safety reactively — responding to incidents, corrective actions, compliance checks. Gretchen Haskins, a human factors expert with a background in aviation safety, argues the profession needs to shift toward shaping strategy instead of fixing problems after the fact. Her approach involves understanding the critical everyday tasks workers actually perform, then designing risk out of those systems before anyone gets hurt. A broader, more upstream way of thinking about the job.
7. The Hidden Cost of Heat, with Anna Albright
Safety And Risk Success
Anna Albright left J.P. Morgan and BCG after a delayed flight revealed that ground crews — not the aircraft — were being grounded by extreme heat. That experience led her to found Klima and build wearable cooling technology for industrial workers. In this episode she makes the ROI case for heat safety: global heat-related productivity losses run into the trillions, and framing heat as a cost center rather than an investment problem is why most organizations get it wrong. If you're working on heat illness prevention programs, the economic framing here is genuinely useful for internal conversations.
8. How Does a Company Survive 100 Years? with Rod Paul & Justin Tate
Powerline Podcast
Bashlin Industries has been manufacturing safety equipment for lineworkers for a century. Rod Paul and Justin Tate join host Ryan Lucas to talk about what that longevity actually requires: continuous adaptation, listening to customers, navigating workforce shortages, and integrating automation without losing what made the products trusted in the first place. Less about EHS theory, more about what sustained commitment to a high-hazard industry looks like from the manufacturing side. Worth it for the leadership and business lessons as much as the safety context.
You can check out all of the recommended EHS Recommended Podcasts for 2026 on Spotify here.
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