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Thursday, November 18, 2010

Another Brick in the Wall for BP et al

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Yesterday the National Academy of Engineering released their report * on the Deepwater Horizon blowout.  The report includes a critical appr...
Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Human Beings . . . Conscious Decisions

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In a  New York Times article* dated November 8, 2010, there was a headline to the effect that Fred Bartlit, the independent investigator for...
Thursday, October 28, 2010

Safety Culture Surveys in Aviation

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Like nuclear power, commercial aviation is a high-reliability industry whose regulator (the FAA) is interested in knowing the state of sa...
Friday, October 22, 2010

NRC Safety Culture Workshop

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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...
Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Perception and Reality

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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...
Monday, October 18, 2010

Perception Is/Is Not Reality?

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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...
Monday, October 4, 2010

Survival of the Safest

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One of our goals with SafetyMatters is bringing thought provoking materials to our readers, particularly materials they might not otherwis...
Thursday, September 30, 2010

BP's New Safety Division

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