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Monday, January 25, 2016

IAEA Urges Stronger Nuclear Safety Culture in Japan

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Fukushima The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) recently completed a peer review of Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority (NR...
Sunday, January 17, 2016

A Nuclear Safety Culture for Itinerant Workers

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IAEA has published “ Radiation Protection of Itinerant Workers ”* a report that describes management responsibilities and practices to pro...
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Sunday, January 10, 2016

Targeted Safety Culture Assessment at Columbia Generating Station

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Columbia Generating Station The Columbia Generating Station (CGS) got into trouble with the NRC when two members of the security departm...
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Monday, January 4, 2016

How Top Management Decisions Shape Culture

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A brief article* in the December 2015 The Atlantic magazine asks “What was VW thinking?” then reviews a few classic business cases to show...
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Saturday, December 26, 2015

NRC IG Reviews DNFSB Organizational Culture and Climate

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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission Inspector General (IG) provides IG services to the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB), an...
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Sunday, December 20, 2015

Fukushima and Volkswagen: Systemic Similarities and Observations for the U.S. Nuclear Industry

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Fukushima VW Logo (Source: Wikipedia) Recent New York Times articles* have described the activities, culture and context of...
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Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Foolproof by Greg Ip: Insights for the Nuclear Industry

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This book* is primarily about systemic lessons learned from the 2008 U.S. financial crisis and, to a lesser extent, various European euro ...
Monday, November 2, 2015

Cultural Tidbits from McKinsey

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We spent a little time poking around the McKinsey* website looking for items that could be related to safety culture and found a couple. ...
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