Safetymatters: Organizational and safety culture information, analysis and management

Risky Business   As we illustrated in Part 1 of this post a new aspect of safety management risk is possible criminal liability for acti...

This paper* was referenced in a safety culture (SC) presentation we recently reviewed.  It was prepared for Canadian offshore oil industry...

Anyone who thought safety culture and safety decision making was an institutional artifact, or mostly a matter of regulatory enforcement...

We have posted numerous times on the travails of BP following the Deepwater Horizon disaster and the contribution of safety culture to th...

The Wall Street Journal reported on June 23, 2011 * on an internal investigation conducted by Transocean, owner of the Deepwater Horizon dri...

Today’s Wall Street Journal has an interesting news item about a BP Vice President who quit prior to the Deepwater Horizon disaster because ...

Last week principal findings of the BP Oil Spill Presidential Commission were released.   Not surprisingly it cited root causes that were “s...

Yesterday the National Academy of Engineering released their report * on the Deepwater Horizon blowout.  The report includes a critical appr...

In a  New York Times article* dated November 8, 2010, there was a headline to the effect that Fred Bartlit, the independent investigator for...

It looks like oil company BP believes that creating a new, “global” safety division is part of the answer to their ongoing safety performanc...

An article in today’s New York Times, “Workers on Doomed Rig Voiced Concern About Safety”  reports on the safety culture on the Deepwater Ho...

An article in the June 29, 2010 Wall Street Journal , “As CEO Hayward Remade BP, Safety, Cost Drives Clashed”, fills in some real world exam...

There’s a good essay on a Harvard Business Review blog describing how decision-making in high risk enterprises may be affected by BP’s dis...

At the end of last week came the surprise announcement from the former Dominion engineer, David Collins, that he was withdrawing his allegat...

A Reuters Breakingviews commentary in today’s New York Times makes some interesting arguments about the consequences of the BP oil spill on...

Good article in today's New York Times Magazine Preview about economic decision making in general and the oil industry in particular. ...