Safetymatters: Organizational and safety culture information, analysis and management

NUREG-1650 cover The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) recently published NUREG-1650, rev. 6, the seventh national report for the Conv...

Republic of Korea flag We recently read two journal articles that present the Korean perspective on nuclear safety culture (NSC), one fr...

Five years after the Fukushima disaster, the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) has released an updated report * on Fukushima lessons learned.  I...

This is a companion piece to our Aug. 24, 2015 post on how the NRC effectively regulates licensee safety culture (SC) in the absence of a...

We have griped many times about how the NRC does, in fact, regulate (i.e., control or direct) licensee safety culture (SC) even though the...

This paper* was referenced in a safety culture (SC) presentation we recently reviewed.  It was prepared for Canadian offshore oil industry...

DNFSB Headquarters On August 27, 2014 the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) convened the second of three hearings “to addr...

The latest International Nuclear Safety Journal has an article * by Benoit Bernard describing a new safety culture (SC) regulatory oversight...

Two weeks ago we posted on NUREG-2165 , a document that formalizes a “common language” for describing nuclear safety culture (SC).  The NU...

The NRC has issued NUREG-2165 * which formalizes the safety culture (SC) common language that has been under development since the NRC S...

A March 25, 2014 NRC press release * announced that Chairman Macfarlane presented the Sixth National Report for the Convention on Nuclear ...

An NRC public meeting Last August 7th, the NRC held a public meeting to discuss their outreach initiatives to inform stakeholders about ...

We’ve often thought that intentional or willful violations of safety/regulatory requirements could provide a useful window into the dynami...