Safetymatters: Organizational and safety culture information, analysis and management

The Internet  Source:Wikipedia We’ve come across some Internet content (one website, one article) that purports to inform the reader abo...

NUREG-1650 cover The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) recently published NUREG-1650, rev. 6, the seventh national report for the Conv...

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) recently sponsored a week-long conference* to celebrate 30 years of interest and work in s...

On July 30, 2014 we reviewed the safety culture (SC) aspects of the National Research Council report on lessons learned from the Fukushim...

In November 2011 the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO) published a special report * on the March 2011 Fukushima accident.  Th...

On October 22, 2010 we reported on an INPO study that correlated safety culture (SC) survey data with safety performance measures.  A mor...

A March 25, 2014 NRC press release * announced that Chairman Macfarlane presented the Sixth National Report for the Convention on Nuclear ...

An NRC public meeting Last August 7th, the NRC held a public meeting to discuss their outreach initiatives to inform stakeholders about ...

As discussed in our July 18, 2013 post , INPO's position is that creating and maintaining a healthy safety culture (SC) is a primary l...

The Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO) has released a document * that aims at aligning their previous descriptions of safety cul...

The RIC is this week, March 12-14.  The teaser on the NRC blog says the technical sessions will include safety culture (SC) policies.  Le...

In November 2003 Professor Edgar Schein gave a speech at the INPO CEO conference.*  It was not a lengthy academic lecture but his fo...

Dave Snowden In this post we highlight a provocative, and we believe, accurate criticism of the approach taken by many management scient...