Psychology Before Procedures™
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Kill
Switch

The neuroscience of why people die at work — and how to stop it.

Every catastrophic failure in history had a moment where the human brain could have stopped it. This show is about that moment — hosted by Janel Penaflor, The Safety Disruptor™.

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Kill Switch Podcast
Now Recording
Season 1
About the Show

This Is Not
a Compliance Podcast

Kill Switch asks the question nobody in safety dares say out loud: what if the danger isn't the chemical, the machine, or the process — what if the danger is the brain running it?

Each episode, Janel Penaflor — safety disruptor, fatality investigator, and neuroscience obsessive — dismantles a failure, a bias, a catastrophe, and shows exactly where the human brain stopped working before anyone got hurt.

No fluff. No compliance theater. Just the neuroscience of what actually goes wrong — and what actually fixes it.

Janel Penaflor
Host
Janel Penaflor
The Safety Disruptor™ · 30+ years · 50+ fatality investigations

Founder & CEO of Safety Sense Inc.™, Janel has spent over three decades inside the most hazardous industries on earth — oil and gas, mining, nuclear, aviation, chemical manufacturing. She has investigated more than 50 fatalities and built the world's most comprehensive neuroscience-based safety system as a result.

What You'll Learn
  • → The neuroscience behind every major workplace failure
  • → How the PERSONA™, NISOS™, and VOICE™ frameworks apply in real incidents
  • → Why compliance-first safety is structurally broken
  • → What Psychology Before Procedures™ actually looks like in practice
Season 1 Episodes

Inside Kill Switch

Episode 01
The Last Thought
What does the brain believe in the seconds before a fatality? The neuroscience of certainty — and why confidence kills more workers than carelessness.
Episode 02
The Bystander Protocol
Why trained workers watch someone get hurt and do nothing. The amygdala hijack nobody in safety is talking about.
Episode 03
Compliance Is Not Safety
The difference between a worker who follows the rules and a worker who understands them. Why one survives and the other doesn't.
Episode 04
The Backpack Factor
What workers carry from childhood into the job site — and how those invisible scripts override every safety procedure you've written.
Episode 05
The Observer Paradox
Quantum mechanics and workplace safety have more in common than anyone admits. How observation itself changes behavior — and how to use it deliberately.
Episode 06
When the Ladder Breaks
Polyvagal theory on the job site. How autonomic nervous system states drive risk decisions — and what it takes to move a worker out of survival mode.
New episodes dropping regularly.
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Want to Be
on Kill Switch?

This show exists to surface the conversations safety hasn't been willing to have. If you're working at the edge of human performance, neuroscience, fatality prevention, or organizational change — we want to hear from you.

Not looking for talking heads. Looking for people who've been in the room when it went wrong — and came out with something worth saying.

We're looking for
🧠
Neuroscience & Psychology experts
Applied behavioral science, cognitive psychology, trauma-informed practice
⚠️
Incident & fatality investigators
People who've seen what failure actually looks like up close
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High-hazard industry leaders
Oil & gas, mining, nuclear, aviation, construction, chemical manufacturing
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Disruptors & contrarians
Anyone challenging the compliance-first status quo with evidence
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Thought leaders & out-of-the-box thinkers
People who see what others miss — and aren't afraid to say it out loud
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