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...

The National Research Council has released a report * on lessons learned from the Fukushima nuclear accident that may be applicable to U...

In Part 1 we provided the results of our survey of nuclear executive compensation levels, structure and performance metrics.  In this ...

We have posted previously on the general topic of competing priorities (cost, schedule, political, personal career interest, etc.) bein...

We just read a KBIA* report on the handling of an employee’s safety concern at the Callaway nuclear plant that piqued our interest. This p...

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. ...

We saw an essay on Clean Skies that suggests the oil industry could learn from the nuclear industry, in particular, that the oil industry s...

Today's New York Times has an article whose title says it all, "Regulator Deferred to Oil Industry on Offshore Rig Safety." ...

We saw a very interesting observation in a recent World Nuclear News item describing updates to World Association of Nuclear Operators’ str...

A recent McKinsey survey describes companies' desire to use training to build competitive capabilities however, most training actually ...

It would be difficult to come up with an attention-grabbing headline for the March 30 Commission briefing on safety culture. Not much happe...

I came across a very interesting idea in some of my recent web browsing - an idea that I like for several reasons. First, it centers on an ...

To support the discussion items on this blog we spend time ferreting out interesting pieces of information that bear on the issue of nuclear...

This post's title is part of a quote from the book Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard that we introduced in our March 7, ...

There was an interesting article in the March 22, 2010 Hartford Courant regarding Paul Blanch , the former Northeast Utilities engineer who ...

Over the last several years there have been a number of nuclear organizations that have encountered safety culture and climate issues at the...

From time to time we will mention other safety culture professionals whose work you may find interesting. William R. Corcoran, Ph.D., P.E. ...

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