Safetymatters: Organizational and safety culture information, analysis and management

In July we initiated a process for readers to participate in evaluating the extent to which actual decisions made at nuclear plants were...

On October 7, 2011 California governor Brown signed SB 705 authored by state senator Mark Leno.  The Leno bill, among many others, was ...

One of our recurring themes has been how to strengthen safety culture, either to sustain an acceptable level of culture or to address weakne...

Our recent blog posts have discussed the work of anthropologist Constance Perin.  This post looks at her book, Shouldering Risks: The Cult...

Our previous post introduced the work of Constance Perin,  Visiting Scholar in Anthropology at MIT, including her thesis of “significan...

Academics in many disciplines study safety culture.  This post introduces to this blog the work of an MIT anthropologist, Constance Perin ...

This post introduces the second decision scoring example.  Click here , or the box above this post, to access the detailed decision summar...

We wanted to present the results to date for the first of the decision scoring examples.  (The decision scoring framework is discussed h...