Safetymatters: Organizational and safety culture information, analysis and management

Republic of Korea flag We recently read two journal articles that present the Korean perspective on nuclear safety culture (NSC), one fr...

In this book* Leveson, an MIT professor, describes a comprehensive approach for designing and operating “safe” organizations based on syst...

In our experience education is perceived as a continual process, accumulating knowledge progressively over time.  A shiny apple exemplifie...

This book* presents a multi-year case study of the California Independent System Operator (CAISO), the government entity created to operat...

As you know, over the past year trouble has been brewing in the South Korean nuclear industry.  A recent New York Times article * provides...

No, this is not an attempt to incorporate safety culture into the ASME code.  As introduced in Part 1 we want to offer a relatively simp...

The short answer:  No. “Stable” means that an organization’s safety culture effectiveness remains at about the same level* over time. ...

We thought we would take this opportunity to do a little rummaging around in the Google analytics and report on some of the statistics for...

NRC Chairman Jaczko, addressing the recent INPO CEO conference , warned about possible increasing complacency in the nuclear industry.*  T...

This post reviews a Department of Energy (DOE) effort to provide safety culture assessment and improvement tools for its own operations an...

In mid-December the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS) provided the results of its review of the NRC’s proposed nuclear safety ...

Part 1 of this topic covered the factors important to safety culture and amenable to measurement or assessment, the “known knowns.”   In thi...

As we have mentioned before , we are perplexed that people are still spending time working on safety culture definitions. After all, it’s n...

This podcast is excerpted from an interview of Dr. James Reason in association with VoiceMap ( www.voicemap.net ), a provider of live guida...

These are the words of John Carlin, Vice President at the Ginna Nuclear Plant, referring to a situation in the past where chronic water leak...