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Friday, March 30, 2012

The Safety Culture Common Language Path Forward—and the Broken Window at the Nuclear Power Plant

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The NRC has an initiative, the Safety Culture Common Language Path Forward, to describe safety culture (SC) elements at a more detailed ...
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Friday, March 23, 2012

Going Beyond SCART: A More Useful Guidebook for Evaluating Safety Culture

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Our March 11 post reviewed the IAEA SCART guidelines.  We found its safety culture characteristics and attributes comprehensive but its...
Saturday, March 17, 2012

The NRC Does Not Regulate Safety Culture, Right?

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Last March, the NRC approved its safety culture policy statement.*  At the time, a majority of commissioners issued supplemental comments ...
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Sunday, March 11, 2012

IAEA’s Safety Culture Assessment Review Team (SCART) Program

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The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) offers the SCART service to Member States.  A SCART’s goal is to assess the safety culture i...
Thursday, March 1, 2012

Reflections on the Vit Plant's New Safety Culture Manager: Full Steam Ahead or Time for DOE to Consider a New Plan B?

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(Ed. note: Here's a new essay on the Vit Plant by Bill Mullins.  In an era of sound bites and tweets, we provide a forum where comple...
Friday, February 24, 2012

More BP

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We have posted numerous times on the travails of BP following the Deepwater Horizon disaster and the contribution of safety culture to th...
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Monday, February 13, 2012

Is Safety Culture An Inherently Stable System?

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The short answer:  No. “Stable” means that an organization’s safety culture effectiveness remains at about the same level* over time. ...
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Wednesday, February 1, 2012

VIT Plant Glop (Part 2)

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( Ed. note : We're pleased to present an interesting take on the Vit Plant from Bill Mullins as a guest contributor.  We welcome cont...