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Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Left Brain, Right Stuff: How Leaders Make Winning Decisions by Phil Rosenzweig

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In this new book* Rosenzweig extends the work of Kahneman and other scholars to consider real-world decisions.  He examines how the conten...
Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Lessons Learned from “Lessons Learned”: The Evolution of Nuclear Power Safety after Accidents and Near-Accidents by Blandford and May

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This publication appeared on a nuclear safety online discussion board.*  It is a high-level review of significant commercial nuclear indus...
Thursday, January 9, 2014

Safety Culture Training Labs

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Not a SC Training Lab This post highlights a paper* Carlo Rusconi presented at the American Nuclear Society meeting last November.  He p...
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Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

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Kahneman is a Nobel Prize winner in economics.  His focus is on personal decision making, especially the biases and heuristics used by the u...
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Monday, November 11, 2013

Engineering a Safer World: Systems Thinking Applied to Safety by Nancy Leveson

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In this book* Leveson, an MIT professor, describes a comprehensive approach for designing and operating “safe” organizations based on syst...
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Tuesday, October 29, 2013

NRC Outreach on the Safety Culture Policy Statement

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An NRC public meeting Last August 7th, the NRC held a public meeting to discuss their outreach initiatives to inform stakeholders about ...
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Friday, October 18, 2013

When Apples Decay

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In our experience education is perceived as a continual process, accumulating knowledge progressively over time.  A shiny apple exemplifie...
Monday, October 14, 2013

High Reliability Management by Roe and Schulman

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This book* presents a multi-year case study of the California Independent System Operator (CAISO), the government entity created to operat...
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