Safetymatters: Organizational and safety culture information, analysis and management

When concerns are raised about the safety culture of an organization with very significant safety responsibilities what’s one to do?  How...

This is not about safety culture, but it’s nuclear related and, given our recent emphasis on decision-making, we can’t pass over it witho...

Just when you think there is a lack of humor in the exposition of dry, but critical issues, such as risk management, our old friend Nichol...

The subject of this post is the compelling insights of Daniel Kahneman into issues of behavioral economics and how we think and make deci...

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...