Safetymatters: Organizational and safety culture information, analysis and management

In this post we highlight the doctoral thesis paper of Antti Piirto, “Safe Operation of Nuclear Power Plants – Is Safety Culture an Adequa...

The words dynamic and interactive always catch our attention as they are intrinsic to our world view of nuclear safety culture learning....

The NRC's assessment of safety culture (SC) is an example of regulatory creep.  It began with the requirement that licensees determine...

News last week that the San Onofre units would permanently shutdown - joining Crystal River 3 (CR3) and Kewaunee as the latest early retir...

Previous posts* have chronicled the safety culture (SC) issues raised at the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP aka the Vit pla...

A brief article * in the April McKinsey Quarterly describes a piece of early-stage academic research into different individuals' decis...

This post continues our discussion of the implementation of safety culture policy in day-to-day nuclear management decision making, started ...

A regular reader asks: The middle managers at my facility think learning is great—for their subordinates.  How can I get them to accept th...