Safetymatters: Organizational and safety culture information, analysis and management

Not a SC Training Lab This post highlights a paper* Carlo Rusconi presented at the American Nuclear Society meeting last November.  He p...

Aztec Calendar Over the four plus years we have been publishing this blog, regular readers will have noticed some recurring themes in ou...

We have long been proponents of looking for innovative ways to improve safety management training for nuclear professionals.  We’ve taken ...

We have referred to NuclearSafetySim and the use of simulation tools on a regular basis in this blog.  NuclearSafetySim is our initiative ...

In the September 15, 2010 New York Times there is an interesting article* about the increasing recognition within school environments that g...

In our June 15th post , we reported on Wahlström and Rollenhagen’s * concern that trying to measure safety culture could do more harm than ...

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

This post follows on the issue of whether safety culture is a concept unto itself or a state that is defined by many constituent actions.  S...

System Dynamics is a concept for seeing the world in terms of inputs and outputs, where internal feedback loops and time delays can affect s...

One of the most important insights to be gained from a systems perspective of safety management is the effectiveness of various responses to...

Starting with this post we are reviewing an interesting paper from the Sloan School of Management at MIT - “Preventing Accidents and Buildin...