Safetymatters: Organizational and safety culture information, analysis and management

Is a satisfactory Safety Conscious Work Environment (SCWE) the same as an effective safety culture (SC)?  Absolutely not.  However, some o...

NRC Chairman Jaczko, addressing the recent INPO CEO conference , warned about possible increasing complacency in the nuclear industry.*  T...

Last February, the International Atomic Energy (IAEA) hosted a four-day meeting of regulators and licensees on safety culture .*  “The ge...

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...