Safetymatters: Organizational and safety culture information, analysis and management

Why? Sidney Dekker recently revisited * some interesting research he led at a large health care authority.  The authority’s track record...

A brief article* in the December 2015 The Atlantic magazine asks “What was VW thinking?” then reviews a few classic business cases to show...

This book*, originally published in 1984, is a regular reference for authors writing about complex socio-technical systems.**  Perrow'...

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

These are the words of John Carlin, Vice President at the Ginna Nuclear Plant, referring to a situation in the past where chronic water leak...

The linked file contains a book review with some interesting social science that could be of great relevance to building and sustaining safe...

Thought I would share with you a relatively recent addition to the safety management system bookshelf, Just Culture by Sidney Dekker, Profe...

What is this all about?  Reliability is a dynamic non-event [ MIT paper pg 5].  It is about complacency.  Paradoxically, when incident rate...