Safetymatters: Organizational and safety culture information, analysis and management

This is a subject that has been on our minds for some time.  Many readers may have eagerly jumped to this post to learn about the latest o...

One of our readers suggested we look at Communicating Change * by T.J. and Sandar Larkin.  The Larkins are consultants so I was somewhat s...

On March 17 we published a post on NRC safety culture (SC) related activities with individual licensees since the SC policy statement was...

The DOE held a Nuclear Safety Workshop on September 19-20, 2012.  Safety culture (SC) was the topic at two of the technical breakout ses...

Our September 21, 2012 post introduced a few key elements of Prof. Edgar Schein’s “mental model” of organizational culture.  Our focus in...

A reader recently asked: “Do you subscribe to Edgar Schein's culture model?”  The short-form answer is a qualified “Yes.”  Prof. Schei...

Bob Cudlin recently posted on the work of David Snowden, a decision theorist and originator of the Cynefin decision construct.  Snowden’s ...

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