Safetymatters: Organizational and safety culture information, analysis and management

The starting point of this post is not the nuclear industry per se and some may think it odd that we extrapolate from another part of the ut...

Ian Richardson, the British actor, may not be the first person who leaps to mind as someone with insight into the art of assessing safety cu...

On December 14, 2010 the NRC held a public meeting with Southern California Edison to discuss recent safety-related performance at the San O...

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

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

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...