Safetymatters: Organizational and safety culture information, analysis and management

A few days ago the Governor’s Independent Investigation Panel issued its report on the Upper Big Branch coal mine explosion of April 5, 2010...

A recent New York Times article on teaching methods * caught our eye.  It reported an experiment by college physics professors to improve th...

Pitot tube This post emanates from the ongoing investigations of the crash of Air France flight 447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris.  In som...

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...