Push to Talk with Bruce Webb: A Helicopter Podcast

Charis Work is an SMS expert from New Zealand. Working in the country with the highest number of helicopters-per-capita, Charis knows how to tailor a safety system around the actual people it serves. In this conversation, I’ll speak with Charis about crafting SMS that makes us both safe and unencumbered.

Each year more than half a million patients in the US are transported by air ambulance. EMS flight teams face the unique challenge of navigating the inherent risks of flight with the added stresses that come with emergency care. So how can we provide them the safest environment possible to deliver their critical services? Paul Ward is the assistant vice president of safety programs at Intermountain Health. As a former medic and lifelong student of industrial organization, Paul works to optimi...

Ashlyn Carter is a systems safety and mission assurance expert at Boeing. With a masters in industrial organizational psychology, and prior experience with Airbus and CAMI, she’s is a sterling example of the rising generation of human factors experts who are poised to take on the challenges of our rapidly-changing world.

Eoin Walker is the HEMS segment promoter for Airbus, and host of The Pre-Hospital Care Podcast. With years of experience as a flight paramedic, Eoin has seen firsthand how good communication cools even the most heated scenarios. In this conversation, Eoin will let us in on how he’s been able to harness his communication through his life and career, and what we can do to follow suit. How we can "be the thermostat, not the thermometer."

Adam Bernhardt is the Head of Safety and Well-Being for Airbus in the Asia-Pacific region, an area that covers more twelve countries including Australia, Japan, Thailand, and Malaysia. Adam understands the subtle touch needed to advocate for safety across such a diverse region. In this conversation, I’ll speak with Adam about the ways he works across nations and cultures that may have differing — and even contrasting — views of safety, and how the lessons he’s learned from doing so migh...