Safetymatters: Organizational and safety culture information, analysis and management

We are all familiar with the old nursery rhyme: “Hickory, dickory, dock, the mouse ran up the clock.”  This may be an apt description for ...

Anyone who thought safety culture and safety decision making was an institutional artifact, or mostly a matter of regulatory enforcement...

In this post we call attention to a recent article from The Wall Street Journal* that highlights an aspect of safety culture “learning” th...

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...