Safetymatters: Organizational and safety culture information, analysis and management

This Wall Street Journal article* reports that the new Vogtle units may be in construction schedule trouble. The article notes that th...

This book was mentioned in a nuclear safety discussion forum so we figured this is a good time to revisit Dörner's 1989 tome.* Below...

We return to a favorite subject, the impact of goals and incentives on safety culture and performance. Interestingly this subject comes ...

Sydney Dekker's Drift Into Failure * is a noteworthy effort to provide new insights into how accidents and other bad outcomes occur i...

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...