Safetymatters: Organizational and safety culture information, analysis and management

In this post we call your attention to a current research paper * and Wall Street Journal summary article ** that sheds some light on how ...

Dave Snowden In this post we highlight a provocative, and we believe, accurate criticism of the approach taken by many management scient...

In September, 2011 the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) and the International Atomic Energy (IAEA) held a workshop for regulators and industry...

As we introduced in our prior post on this subject ( Results 1 ), we are presenting some safety culture simulation results based on a h...

“Cognitive dissonance” is the tension that arises from holding two conflicting thoughts in one’s mind at the same time.  Here’s a candida...

As promised in our June 29, 2012 post , we are taking the next step to incorporate our mental models of safety culture and decision makin...

NRC SC poster, ADAMS ML120810464. On March 17th we published a post on NRC safety culture (SC) related activities with individual lice...

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...