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Episode 22: Credentials Aren’t Competence: The Hidden Risk in AI-Enabled Hiring
In this episode, I sit down with Thor Hesselberg, founder of WorkID.ai, to explore how AI is changing hiring, and why a convincing CV is no longer enough to establish trust.
We unpack:
Why AI makes polished resumes and fabricated profiles easier to create
Why candidate verification often happens too late in the hiring process
How identity and work history can be verified earlier
Why hiring is an access decision, especially for safety-critical roles
How AI-generated applications can disadvantage honest candidates
Why applicant tracking systems can’t verify the truth of self-reported information
How portable, verified work histories could reduce repeated checks
What leaders should ask their recruitment teams about verification
At the heart of our conversation is a simple idea:
When competence matters, trust is not enough.
Organizations need to verify identity, credentials, and experience at the source, before access is granted and before time is lost pursuing claims that don’t hold up.
That is The Edge.
Episode 21: When Silence Becomes a Risk: Insights on Psychological Safety
In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Peter Brace, author of Practical Psychological Safety in Asia Pacific, to explore why people stay quiet, how psychosocial hazards hide in plain sight, and what leaders can do to create conditions where the truth gets spoken early enough to matter.
We unpack:
Why silence is usually a social strategy, not a knowledge problem
What psychological safety really means
How overload, unclear roles, underwork, and exclusion affect teams
The conditions that make speaking up more likely
Why respect and accountability must work together
When leaders should use direct command and when they should invite open discussion
How hierarchy and culture influence people’s willingness to challenge authority
Why improving one team can be the first step toward wider organizational change
At the heart of our conversation is a simple idea:
Psychological safety is not about lowering standards. It is about creating a workplace where people can tell the truth, surface risk, learn faster, and make better decisions.
That is
The Edge.
Episode 11: When Experience Becomes the Risk
In this episode of The Safety Edge Podcast, we explore how experience—often considered one of the greatest safeguards in high-risk operations—can sometimes become a hidden source of risk. Through a realistic operational scenario, we examine how familiarity, confidence, and the pressure to “get the job done” can quietly influence decision-making. Discover how experience can shape risk perception, why subtle signals are sometimes dismissed, and how safety leaders can build systems where discipline, not heroics, protects people and performance.