Safetymatters: Organizational and safety culture information, analysis and management

A brief article* in the December 2015 The Atlantic magazine asks “What was VW thinking?” then reviews a few classic business cases to show...

The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) released its final report * on the August 2012 fire at the Chevron refi...

Most of us associate psychologist James Reason with the “Swiss Cheese Model” of defense in depth or possibly the notion of a “just cu...

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

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

This book was mentioned in a nuclear safety discussion forum so we figured this is a good time to revisit Dörner's 1989 tome.* Below...