The Universal Language of Risk: Lucca Filippo on Safety Lessons Learned Across Airspace and Labs
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Slip up in aviation? You investigate it. Learn from it. Build systems to stop it from happening again.
Slip up in a lab with a deadly pathogen? You might start a pandemic.
Luca Filippo started as a helicopter pilot in Brazil. Today, he’s helping biological researchers rethink safety from the ground up, using aviation’s hard-won lessons. In this episode, Luca breaks down how system safety can (and should) be applied far beyond airplanes, into high-risk labs where stakes are sky-high and safety culture is playing catch-up.
We talk:
- Why general aviation needed a safety wake-up call
- What biosafety gets wrong about incident pyramids
- How to teach people who’ve “never crashed” to prepare like they will
- And what every safety pro should do before opening their mouth: listen.
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