tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4170623839736191950.post6887028014155786592..comments2022-12-03T19:22:46.911-08:00Comments on Safetymatters: Safety culture information, analysis and management: Our Gaze Returns to DOE and its Safety CultureBob Cudlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08502712287881656493noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4170623839736191950.post-87438889719164225772014-04-03T15:38:47.660-07:002014-04-03T15:38:47.660-07:00Just to offer an alternative perspective - at what...Just to offer an alternative perspective - at what point do we begin counting angels on the point of a needle?<br /><br />Since well before the inception of the DNFSB Recommendation on Safety Culture in the WTP this entire effort in DOE has had the character of the proverbial "Snipe Hunt."<br /><br />Having lived through the decade long gestation, birth and raising of the DOE's Integrated Safety Management doctrine and processes, it has been a painful regression to watch EFCOG in cahoots with DOE HQ's Health, Safety and Security group play "flavor of the month" with a bunch of ideas that never held together very well in the commercial nuclear sector and are substantially more difficult to grasp in the context of the way DOE does most of its hazardous operations. <br /><br />How does one differentiate between SCWE self-assessment and general management? The whole idea is one that does give reason to wonder how DOE has ever gotten anything done with any effectiveness. Sadly, this particular play does much to obscure that DOE has in fact done many remarkable things and in the recent three decades out in the harsh light of multiple regulator's scrutiny and with admirable results compared to most entities its size.<br /><br />Alas it seems that there will always be a need for Potemkin Villages.<br /><br />Like you I'm not holding my breath on the next report - not because it won't surely disappoint, but simply because the task of its proposed analysis is so far removed from any competence or relevant experience of anyone with this phantom Nuclear Safety Culture that there does not even exist a credible definition of success.Bill Mullinsnoreply@blogger.com