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Safety Chats Podcast
Welcome to Portside Safety Chats, a podcast for people responsible for keeping flight operations safe, compliant, and moving forward. Hosted by Todd Thomas and Anne Marie Sollazzo, each episode features practical conversations about safety management, reporting, and real-world challenges across aviation. Tune in for timely topics, thoughtful insight, and clear takeaways you can actually use, all in under 30 minutes.
Safety Chats Podcast
Normalization of Deviation: When Shortcuts Become Risk
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In this episode of Portside Safety by Baldwin Safety Chat, Anne-Marie Sollazzo, Todd Thomas, and Ryan Smith discuss the normalization of deviation and how everyday shortcuts can quietly become accepted practice across an operation.
The conversation explores why deviations often start with good intentions, how operational pressure and tribal knowledge can move teams away from written procedures, and why a successful outcome does not always mean a safe process. The team also shares practical ways to identify drift, encourage fresh-eyes reviews, support open reporting, and close the feedback loop through a strong SMS.
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