tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4170623839736191950.post7526965028307516314..comments2022-12-03T19:22:46.911-08:00Comments on Safetymatters: Safety culture information, analysis and management: Safety Culture Training LabsBob Cudlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08502712287881656493noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4170623839736191950.post-62991540421353436612014-01-24T14:03:25.202-08:002014-01-24T14:03:25.202-08:00Lew,
You observed: "A less charitable view i...Lew,<br /><br />You observed: "A less charitable view is their lack of interest in recognizing goal conflicts and other systemic issues is a way to effectively deny such issues exist."<br /><br />Consider the description (presumably "state of the art" in Vienna) strategy and approach for safety culture here: http://www.iaea.org/nuclearenergy/nuclearknowledge/schools/NEM-school/archive/2011/topics/topic7/09_IAEA_approach_to_IMS_and_SC_V1107_Trieste.pdf <br /><br />Monica Haage is one of the "go to" authorities on nuclear safety culture (one wonders why so many of that cadre are women?). Consider the representations on slides, 3, 4, 5, and 34. Each consists of a metaphor of the form, Safety Culture is like a inorganic monolith.<br /><br />This denatured view of institutional culture is commonplace in the NSC literature - I've hypothesized that it reflects a deeply embedded blind spot in the collective psychology of the Global Nuclear Energy Enterprise. Any concept must be reduced to some Newtonian mechanical "system" before it can be incorporated into the Myth of Nuclear's Spectacular Exception (or Integrated Management System as it is termed at IAEA).<br /><br />I wish I could see even a few exceptions to this rejection of ecological systems thinking as the basis for modeling human interaction in institutions. Stock and flow models are good tools of course, but they are not intended to calculate from laws of nature, only to simulated some of realities aspects. Given the complexity variances from site to site, it is as you know very difficult to convince plant owners that developing management systems Resilience is about the kind of rehearsal of off-normal archetype situations, not creating hard predictions and behavior forecasts.Bill Mullinsnoreply@blogger.com