Safetymatters: Organizational and safety culture information, analysis and management

Our prior post on the award of safety performance bonuses at Transocean may have left you, and us, wondering about the ability of large c...

“...notwithstanding the tragic loss of life in the Gulf of Mexico, we [ Transocean ] achieved an exemplary statistical safety record as meas...

As we observed in our prior blog post, the publication by the Union of Concerned Scientists of their new study of nuclear near misses would ...

“You don’t ever want a crisis to go to waste; it’s an opportunity to do important things that you would otherwise avoid.” So said Rahm Emanu...

In our recent post on safety culture management in the DOE complex , we concentrated on documents created by the DOE team.  But there was al...

We wanted to bring to our readers attention an article from the McKinsey Quarterly (March 2011) that highlights the ability of management s...

This post reviews a Department of Energy (DOE) effort to provide safety culture assessment and improvement tools for its own operations an...

Today’s Wall Street Journal has an interesting news item about a BP Vice President who quit prior to the Deepwater Horizon disaster because ...