Safetymatters: Organizational and safety culture information, analysis and management

This book* discusses two different ways of conceptualizing safety performance problems (e.g., near-misses, incidents and accidents) and sa...

DNFSB Headquarters On August 27, 2014 the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) convened the second of three hearings “to addr...

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

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

This book*, originally published in 1984, is a regular reference for authors writing about complex socio-technical systems.**  Perrow'...

This book* examines how errors occur in complex socio-technical systems.  The authors' thesis is that behind every ascribed “human err...

On February 10 th , we posted about a report covering lessons for safety culture (SC) that can be gleaned from the social science litera...