The Safety Huddle
Our podcast. Inga Faust talks to the people who do this work: paramedics, close protection officers, analysts, negotiators, trainers. The conversations stay on what happens in practice, including the parts that went wrong.
What the conversations cover
Close protection, including the version of it that involves families and children. Movement analysis and behavioural observation. Medical care inside protective work, where the paramedic and the protection officer are rarely the same person. Preparation for conflict zones. Negotiation under duress. Search and rescue. Resilience and what this work does to the people doing it.
Who comes on
Guests come from emergency medical services, policing, humanitarian operations, psychology and the security industry itself. Episodes run from sixteen minutes to well over an hour, depending on how much the guest has to say. New ones appear irregularly rather than in a fixed weekly slot.
Most episodes are in English. Four of the fourteen below are in German, and each entry says which.
Episodes
Numbers follow the show's own count. The audio feed starts at No. 23. The video versions and the earlier episodes are on the YouTube channel.
29 min · EnglishLeadership Lessons from Complex Disasters Donnie Woodyard brings thirty years in emergency medical services to the question of what leadership looks like when a disaster is complex rather than merely large. Deployments in Sri Lanka and Haiti, risk management, team resilience and problem solving in crisis environments.
82 min · EnglishHow to Improve Security Industry Standards Security industry veteran Orlando Wilson, with guest host Thorsten Stinner, on what actually raises standards in the security industry: regulation versus quality, behaviour and soft skills versus certificates, and where cyber, drones and artificial intelligence are moving the threat picture. At 82 minutes the longest episode in the feed.
16 min · GermanDie Auswahl von Mietern revolutionieren Risk analyst Jörg on tenant selection in real estate: data-driven methods, psychological indicators, and the economic damage a wrong tenant can cause.
28 min · EnglishIntercultural Competence in Security Inga on intercultural competence in security work: language barriers, clashing norms, gender dynamics in the field, and why cultural understanding decides whether trust forms at all.
19 min · EnglishSurviving Violence: Empowering Yourself Against Threats Nikki Burgett on violence prevention. Her argument is that violence is more predictable than most people assume, and that training, mindset and situational awareness let a person act as their own first responder.
18 min · EnglishBuilding Resilience in a Chaotic World Dr. Mary Beth Janke, a former Secret Service agent who became a psychologist, on resilience: the psychological tools behind it, coping after the pandemic years, and why self care and community support are not soft topics in this industry.
30 min · GermanHostile Environments: Einblicke einer Friedensberaterin Johanna Wolf De Tafur on hostile environment awareness training and what it takes to prepare someone for work in a conflict zone. Risk management, stress management, and how security training has changed.
29 min · EnglishDecoding Evil: Movement Patterns and Intentions Sandra on movement analysis in close protection: how intent shows itself in the way a person moves, what observation in real time can and cannot deliver, and the psychological factors that distort perception under stress.
32 min · EnglishMedical Emergencies in Close Protection Dr. Michael Guirguis on medical work inside close protection: which skills a protection officer needs, when a team needs qualified medical personnel, the legal limits of treating without a licence, and what belongs in a kit built for security operations.
29 min · GermanUmfeldanalysen verstehen Jörg Tschentscher and Inga Faust on environment analysis: thorough research, social media in tenant screening, artificial intelligence in the analysis process, data protection law, and the human factor that no tool replaces.
22 min · EnglishThe World of Search and Rescue Robin Van Bruggen on search and rescue: multidisciplinary teams, the weight volunteers carry, the role of technology, and how someone gets into the field, including the training and certification it takes.
34 min · EnglishNegotiation in Crisis Situations Andy Brown on negotiation in humanitarian crises and hostage situations: how it differs from police negotiation, emotional control, active listening, building local capacity, and the mental health of the staff doing it.
22 min · GermanPersonenschutz von Familien Sandra and Inga on close protection for families. Children behave differently from principals, which changes communication, boundaries and the training a protection officer needs.
36 min · EnglishThe Dance of Security: Movement Patterns Explained Sandra Adiarte came to security from dance. The conversation is about perception and bias, what video analysis misses, where artificial intelligence helps, and why human observation stays central.
Talk it through first
Every engagement starts with a confidential conversation, and it is free. Describe the operation and the concern. We will tell you honestly whether this is the right capability, another one, or nothing at all.
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