FAILUROLOGY Nicole Imeson & Brian Moynihan

We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.

This week’s Mini Failure is about the Juliana Bridge crane collapse in Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands. A poorly planned lift that had little to no consideration for safety led to the collapse of two cranes and a new bridge section in the middle of this small Netherlands city.

Original Air Date: January 22, 2023

Episode Sources

https://www.onderzoeksraad.nl/en/media/attachment/2018/7/10/67a752ae6374summary_hijsongeval_alphen_aan_den_rijn_eng.pdf
Video - https://www.forconstructionpros.com/business/construction-safety/video/12099051/videotwo-bargemounted-cranes-fall-on-dutch-town

Ways to get in touch with us

Email - thefailurologypodcast@gmail.com

Website - www.failurology.ca

We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.

This week’s Mini Failure is about the Sudbury Effect. Undoing a century of damage, little by little and what went from green and lush, to black and barren, back to green again. Sudbury is now said to have the cleanest air of any city in Ontario.

Original Air Date: January 8, 2023

Episode Sources

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-sudbury-effect-lessons-from-a-regreened-city-1.5102540
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Sudbury
https://thenarwhal.ca/opinion-sudbury-ontario-extractive-industries-transition/#:~:text=A%20devastated%20landscape,the%20soils%2C%20rain%20and%20lakes.

Ways to get in touch with us

Email - thefailurologypodcast@gmail.com

Website - www.failurology.ca

We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about PFOA/C8 Contamination (Dupont Scandal). PFOA has been poisoning living creatures in the Ohio river basin for decades. One brave lawyer took on a huge corporation in this real life David and Goliath story.
Original Air Date: December 12, 2022
Episode Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuPont
https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/dupont-lawsuits-re-pfoa-pollution-in-usa/
https://peri.umass.edu/toxic-100-air-polluters-index-current
https://www.alleghenyfront.org/ohio-river-communities-are-still-coping-with-teflons-toxic-legacy/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:IARC_Group_2B_carcinogens
https://www.cancer.org/healthy/cancer-causes/chemicals/teflon-and-perfluorooctanoic-acid-pfoa.html#:~:text=IARC%20has%20classified%20PFOA%20as,cause%20cancer%20in%20lab%20animals.
Podcast - https://www.alleghenyfront.org/category/fullepisodes/
Ways to get in touch with us
Email - thefailurologypodcast@gmail.com
Website - www.failurology.ca

We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about asbestos. Deadly little fibers that are in seemingly everything and can lay dormant for decades before wreaking havoc.
Original Air Date: November 27, 2022
Episode Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asbestos
https://www.asbestos.com/asbestos/
Ways to get in touch with us
Email - thefailurologypodcast@gmail.com
Website - www.failurology.ca

We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.

This week’s Mini Failure is about the Bhopal Gas Leak disaster in India. Due to malfunctioning safety systems and a lack of safety culture, many people were poisoned and their lives impacted forever.

Original Air Date: November 13, 2022

Episode Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster

Ways to get in touch with us

Email - thefailurologypodcast@gmail.com

Website - www.failurology.ca

We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.

This week’s Mini Failure is about Minamata Disease. How one small Japanese town suffered from decades of mercury poisoning.

Original Air Date: October 30, 2022

Episode Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minamata_disease
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minamata,_Kumamoto
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Big_Pollution_Diseases_of_Japan

Ways to get in touch with us

Email - thefailurologypodcast@gmail.com

Website - www.failurology.ca