Safetymatters: Organizational and safety culture information, analysis and management

Pilgrim Watts Bar A couple of recent reports address the nuclear safety culture (NSC) problems at Pilgrim and Watts Bar.  This post...

A new research paper * covers the challenges of establishing and improving nuclear safety culture (NSC) in a dynamic, i.e., project, envir...

NRC 2017 RIC Nuclear Safety Culture (NSC) was assigned one technical session at the 2017 NRC Regulatory Information Conference (RIC).  T...

I admit it.  The title is a cheap April Fools trick to draw new, perhaps less conventional, visitors to Safetymatters.  The only thing you...

NRC Building No big nuclear safety culture (NSC) news has come out of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) so far in 2017 but there h...

We haven’t reported on the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) safety culture (SC) in awhile.  Although there hasn’t been any big news latel...

Cover of TEPCO Self-Assessment Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) recently conducted a self-assessment * (SA) to ascertain progress vis-à-...

AcciMap Excerpt We recently read a paper* that echoes some of the themes we emphasize on Safetymatters, viz., leadership, decisions and ...