Safetymatters: Organizational and safety culture information, analysis and management

If you are paying attention you noticed we’re using French words.  And the reason is the current news regarding Air France and its safety pr...

The President’s Commission has issued its report on the Deepwater Horizon disaster .* The report reviews the history of the tragedy and make...

For some time we have been thinking about one of the underlying aspects of the NRC’s current safety culture initiative which is to establish...

Our previous post reported on the ACRS letter to the NRC endorsing the agency’s approach to developing a safety culture policy.*  We noted ...

In mid-December the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS) provided the results of its review of the NRC’s proposed nuclear safety ...

In early December NRC Commissioner Ostendorff provided the keynote speech at Nuclear Energy Asia.*  A significant portion of his remarks add...

A recent New York Times article * on an extrasensory perception (ESP) study and the statistical methods used therein caught our attention.  ...

Last week principal findings of the BP Oil Spill Presidential Commission were released.   Not surprisingly it cited root causes that were “s...