Safetymatters: Organizational and safety culture information, analysis and management

The Wall Street Journal reported on June 23, 2011 * on an internal investigation conducted by Transocean, owner of the Deepwater Horizon dri...

Safety Culture Performance Measures Developing forward looking performance measures for safety culture remains a key challenge today and...

Hanford WTP The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB)issued a “strongly worded” report * this week on safety culture at the Ha...

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...