Safetymatters: Organizational and safety culture information, analysis and management

Millstone A recent article * in the Hartford Courant newspaper reported on a turbine-driven auxiliary feedwater (TDAFW) pump proble...

In April 1995 the American Nuclear Society (ANS) sponsored a nuclear safety culture (SC) conference in Vienna.  This was a large undertaki...

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

The subject of this post is the compelling insights of Daniel Kahneman into issues of behavioral economics and how we think and make deci...

Our recent blog posts have discussed the work of anthropologist Constance Perin.  This post looks at her book, Shouldering Risks: The Cult...

Our previous post introduced the work of Constance Perin,  Visiting Scholar in Anthropology at MIT, including her thesis of “significan...

Academics in many disciplines study safety culture.  This post introduces to this blog the work of an MIT anthropologist, Constance Perin ...