WhyWork Podcast

WhyWork Podcast

por Alan Girle, Trajce Cvetkovski, & Sara Pazell

Administración Ciencias Sociales

Temporada 2

S02 E10: Name & Shame: Where is the filter?

Season 02 Episode 10 explores psychosocial impacts when naming and shaming go too far. "Cottage cheese thighs!" yelled the yoga guru, "You're obviously not vegan!". "The Matryoskha dolls keep opening," explains Trajce, as a metaphor. ‘Don’t push the envelope, don’t say it,” warns Trajce. ‘But if you say the regretful words, and you can’t wind it back, acknowledge it, and apologise,” says Alan. This episode fits with chapter 7 of the Ergonomics Insights book: Reshaping lifestyle changes in a heavy weight world.

S02 E09: Quid pro quo: Go hard, go prosecutorial

Season 02 Episode 09: “No more shoddy light fittings in hotel rooms!” exclaims Alan, “(I guess that) for any accommodation provider, there may be some bedroom activities (and) the bed must be strong.” “Honeymoon suite,” says Trajce. Sara laments the boundaries that erode during work travel and shares some stories about fruit and chocolate left at her door while travelling overseas. She reflects on the concerns that were raised for her to “watch out for the ‘trouser snakes’” while out on a mining site. Sara elaborates on the quid-pro-quo presented to her about “how will you be nice to me?” in exchange for business referrals (right during the ‘Me Too!’ movement, no less). “Outside of city-centric accepted work behaviours, where the rubber meets the road, can you prevent alarming behaviours?” asks Trajce. Quid-pro-quo: “Go hard, go prosecutorial,” says Trajce. The Western Australian government proclaims, “Enough is enough!” in their report on sexual harassment in the FIFO mining industry. For more on light fixtures and the ‘rigours’ of work travel, Listen to Season 01 Episode 02: Avatars, Bees, and Sex

S02 E08: Reality TV and me

Season 02 Episode 08: Trajce ruminates over his fascination (read: obsession) with reality TV. He's even written a book on it! The crew, Alan, Trajce, and Sara discuss reality TV and the phenomena of naming and shaming. "I can see how the camera person may be considered a worker (under current health and safety legislation)," says Sara, "but I would never have considered the contestant as a worker." "There is no voluntary acceptance of risk," warns Alan. Psychosocial hazard exposures are discussed when people are named, shamed, or exploited. "The reality TV contestant might not have ever truly understood how being on the show could impact on them," sara Sara. "Codes come, codes go." says Trajce, when explaining the retirement of a work health and safety code to protect contestants.

S02 E07: 4 Men and Women 2: Nightstalker Fright Night

WARNING: This episodes discusses confronting issues about sleepwalking and a urination faux-pas. The inequality of gender-based compensation is addressed in a round-about-way. S02 E07: Explores work travel antics and the constraints when an employer expects workers to share a room. Sara reminds Trajce and Alan about a past state government jingle, “4 Men and Women 2,” and the culture of acceptable alcohol intake. “Work travel seems to erode behavioural boundaries,” marvels Sara. Alan tells a confronting story about drunken ‘non sleep’ behaviours and the resulting trauma. “That’s a scene from Shogun,” says Sara. Alan admits, “I think I’d be pretty depressed if that happened to me.” While what occurs is shocking, the issue of equality and compensation arises in the discussions because what a male may be paid for their trauma versus a female can differ significantly ( For more context: Listen to Season 2 and Episode 6).

S02 E06: Mi casa es su casa

WARNING: This episode has SEXUAL OVERTONES. Season 2 Episode 6: How are you going to risk assess the work of sex workers? “Sometimes the legal structure is too good for it’s own good,” says Alan. When you operate with blurred lines in the structure of employment, you can be subject to full employment laws as a Person Conducting a Business or Undertaking and a worker can be eligible for compensation. “Its problematic when alcohol intake or other such behaviours are the norm and part of the workplace culture,” laments Trajce. Sara ponders on how the same legal frameworks and work design considerations apply, and who enacts or regulates this when industries (like sex work, movie production, or sport) have not compelled such practices. For more on the working lives of sex workers, tune in to Season 2 Episode 5: It's cougar time.

S02 E05: It's cougar time

WARNING: WORKPLACE AGGRESSION AND VIOLENCE are mentioned. This episode has SEXUAL OVERTONES. Season 2 Episode 5: Alan annunciates 'C-o-u-g-a-r,' in honeyed tones. "Silicon chip inside her head" (not 'inside her hip'), Trajce finally realises the lyrics in Bob Geldof and the Boom Town Rat's song, but he laments that 'hip' would rhyme better with 'chip'! Traumas with psychosocial injuries are explored when aggression arises between two cougaresque workers (Or were they? The business argued that they were contractors - that was up for debate). Sara explores the idea of manual task risk management in all kinds of workplaces, even those in which the patrons might get jiggy.

S02 E04: The safety of sport without losing the spirit of sport

Season 2 Episode 4: The crew discuss the work-from-anywhere phenomenon when the enforcement of regulations is a reluctant approach in sport, and we (society) want the fighting spirit exhibited on the field. “This is food for thought”, says Trajce, “criminal law (sanctions) can still apply to illegal acts occurring on the football field… (we must explore) the idea that those involved in the sport, the corporations, the owners… empower themselves through self-regulation and codes of conduct to try and lift the game.” For more on sport, list to Season 2 Episode 3.

S02 E03: What life is really like in sport and s-e-... Okay, just sport.

WARNING: A FATALITY IS DISCUSSED. Season 2 Episode 3: What do you do when the sporting field or tennis court is your workplace? "Aggression and the will to fight is part of the game," says Sara. "We love our sport," says Alan. In football, a shoulder charge has caused a fatality. The athlete's condition was determined to be 'incompatible with life'. Tragic. Listen as Trajce presents the inquest. We learn about Trajce's brush with tennis stardom and his claim to two minutes of fame: being berated by John McEnroe.

S02 E02: It's Hollywood, and it's a gas

WARNING – A FATALITY IS DISCUSSEDSeason 2 Episode 2: The wheels are slow to turn in the Hollywood industry to minimise risk on the set of television or movies. Harrison Ford is injured on a Star Wars set in the Millennium Falcon. Alec Baldwin was involved in an on-set fatality, and there are challenges with work events that are designed to be thrilling. Movie making can be volatile, uncertain, complex, or ambiguous like mining or oil and gas. Things go awry, also, in our casual more relaxed work, like collecting and transporting gas tanks for a weekend barbeque. ‘Enough is enough’ is a new movement. “She just smiled and gave me a Vegemite sandwich,” chimed Trajce.

S02 E01: Nothing by coincidence: Serendipitous meetings

Season 2 Episode 1 describes how the podcasters, Alan, Sara, and Trajce met. The crew discuss the vulnerabilities of the human experience through storytelling. Trajce reflects on his career love of music production, Sara talks about her yoga practice, and Alan reveals his interest in agriculture and his vintage tractor operations. During these reflections, the crew debate joy work (or ‘unwork-work’, as Sara calls her joy work) and ‘work-work’, the stuff that is burdensome and could be improved. The fundamentals of hazard versus risk and the implications of these terms are debated. Reflections are made on the adversarial systems in law. “In a civil and just society, we should behave,” says Trajce.

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