Safetymatters: Organizational and safety culture information, analysis and management

Hanford WTP The Department of Energy (DOE) recently released the latest safety culture (SC) assessment report * for the Hanford Waste Tr...

The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) released its final report * on the August 2012 fire at the Chevron refi...

On October 22, 2010 we reported on an INPO study that correlated safety culture (SC) survey data with safety performance measures.  A mor...

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

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

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

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

In this post we highlight the doctoral thesis paper of Antti Piirto, “Safe Operation of Nuclear Power Plants – Is Safety Culture an Adequa...

ADAMS ML13087A326 Originally published 4-4-13.  This version updated with data from the associated staff briefing slide presentation. Th...

Our September 21, 2012 post introduced a few key elements of Prof. Edgar Schein’s “mental model” of organizational culture.  Our focus in...