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Thursday, July 30, 2009

“Reliability is a Dynamic Non-Event” (MIT #5)

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What is this all about?  Reliability is a dynamic non-event [ MIT paper pg 5].  It is about complacency.  Paradoxically, when incident rate...
Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Self Preservation (MIT #4)

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The MIT paper [pg 7] introduces the concept of feedback loops, an essential ingredient of systems dynamics, and critical to understanding t...

"Beaten to Death by Croutons"

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

Single Loop, Double Loop – What Is This All About? (MIT #3)

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One of the potential benefits of academic papers is the opportunity for theoretical structure to be put forward to explain a set of observat...
Monday, July 27, 2009

Worth Noting - NRC Chairman's Comments

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The link below is to a recent interview with Gregory Jaczko, newly appointed Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.  In the intervie...

Organizational Learning (MIT #2)

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The central question posed in the MIT paper is: What are the contributors to an organization’s ability to learn and sustain a robust safety...
Friday, July 24, 2009

Safety Culture Insights from Simulation (MIT #1)

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Starting with this post we are reviewing an interesting paper from the Sloan School of Management at MIT - “Preventing Accidents and Buildin...
Thursday, July 23, 2009

Can Driving and Texting Coexist?

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In the July 18, 2009 online edition of The New York Times, there is an interesting example of the use of a simulation game to illustrate the...