Safetymatters: Organizational and safety culture information, analysis and management

We recently read Sidney Dekker’s 2014 paper * on the bureaucratization of safety in organizations.  It’s interesting because it describes ...

NRC 2017 RIC Nuclear Safety Culture (NSC) was assigned one technical session at the 2017 NRC Regulatory Information Conference (RIC).  T...

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

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...

On July 30, 2014 we reviewed the safety culture (SC) aspects of the National Research Council report on lessons learned from the Fukushim...

Typical NRC Trait Talk brochure The NRC introduced a series of educational brochures, the Safety Culture Trait Talk, at the March 2014 R...

NRC Public Meeting The NRC held their annual Regulatory Information Conference (RIC) March 11-13, 2014.  It included a session on safety...

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 ...

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

The NRC's assessment of safety culture (SC) is an example of regulatory creep.  It began with the requirement that licensees determine...

We have long griped about the back door regulation of safety culture (SC) in the U.S.  This post describes how the NRC gets to and through...

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has published a how-to report * for regulators who want to regulate their licensees' saf...