Safetymatters: Organizational and safety culture information, analysis and management

I admit it.  The title is a cheap April Fools trick to draw new, perhaps less conventional, visitors to Safetymatters.  The only thing you...

The TMI-2 accident occurred in 1979. In 1983 the plant owner, General Public Utilities Corp. (GPU), received a report* from Adm. Hyman...

In this post we call attention to a recent article from The Wall Street Journal* that highlights an aspect of safety culture “learning” th...

One of our readers suggested we look at Communicating Change * by T.J. and Sandar Larkin.  The Larkins are consultants so I was somewhat s...

A recent Wall Street Journal essay * presented the author’s research into patterns of cheating by people.  He found that a few people are ho...

Last week principal findings of the BP Oil Spill Presidential Commission were released.   Not surprisingly it cited root causes that were “s...

Ian Richardson, the British actor, may not be the first person who leaps to mind as someone with insight into the art of assessing safety cu...

I came across the following in a discussion forum related to Davis Besse issues. “So it appears that man is capable of controlling the cli...

In the July 27, 2009 Wall Street Journal in the Bookshelf column, there is a review of "Say Everything", a book about blogging.  I...