Safetymatters: Organizational and safety culture information, analysis and management

Part 1 of this topic covered the factors important to safety culture and amenable to measurement or assessment, the “known knowns.”   In thi...

...or how I learned to stop worrying and love the ROP.  A June 28, 2010 Wall Street Journal column titled, “Drilling for Better Information...

One of our recent posts questioned whether safety culture is measurable.  Now we will slide out a bit further on a limb and wonder aloud if ...

A website that has caught our attention is called “Nudge” whose focus is on improving decisions and “choice architecture”. A June 1, 2010 ...

In our June 15th post , we reported on Wahlström and Rollenhagen’s * concern that trying to measure safety culture could do more harm than ...

That’s a question raised in a paper by Björn Wahlström and Carl Rollenhagen .* Among other issues, the authors question the reliability and...

There’s a good essay on a Harvard Business Review blog describing how decision-making in high risk enterprises may be affected by BP’s dis...

We just read a KBIA* report on the handling of an employee’s safety concern at the Callaway nuclear plant that piqued our interest. This p...