Safetymatters: Organizational and safety culture information, analysis and management

No, this is not an attempt to incorporate safety culture into the ASME code.  As introduced in Part 1 we want to offer a relatively simp...

Our June 12th post on the nature of decision making raised concerns about current perceptions of safety culture and the lack of a crisp ...

As you know, Rep. Edward Markey (D-MA) is no friend of the NRC and has a record of complaining about NRC management practices and errors, ...

This post may seem a bit on the abstract side of things but is intended to lay some foundation for future discussions on how to represent ...

A recent Wall Street Journal essay * presented the author’s research into patterns of cheating by people.  He found that a few people are ho...

With today’s announcement the drama surrounding the Chairman of the NRC has played out to its foreseeable conclusion.  The merits of the C...

The March 2012 NRC Regulatory Information Conference included a session on the NRC’s Safety Culture Policy Statement.  NRC personnel mad...

This month the Nuclear Energy Agency, a part of the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development, published a report on problem...