Safetymatters: Organizational and safety culture information, analysis and management

Like nuclear power, commercial aviation is a high-reliability industry whose regulator (the FAA) is interested in knowing the state of sa...

The information from the Sept 28, 2010 NRC safety culture meeting is available on the NRC website .  This was a meeting to review the dra...

In our October 18, 2010 post on how perception and reality may factor into safety culture surveys we ended with a question about the limits...

This post will continue our thoughts re the use of safety culture surveys.  The Oxford Dictionary says reality is the state of things as the...

One of our goals with SafetyMatters is bringing thought provoking materials to our readers, particularly materials they might not otherwis...

It looks like oil company BP believes that creating a new, “global” safety division is part of the answer to their ongoing safety performanc...

In the September 15, 2010 New York Times there is an interesting article* about the increasing recognition within school environments that g...

In our September 13, 2010 post on the current situation at SONGS we commented on the (in our opinion) undue focus on “leadership” as the si...