Safetymatters: Organizational and safety culture information, analysis and management

Safetymatters reports on organizational culture, the values and beliefs that underlie an organization’s essential activities.   One such act...

On March 25, 2022 a former nurse at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) was convicted of gross neglect of an impaired adult and negl...

At Safetymatters, we have emphasized several themes over the years, including the importance of developing complete and realistic mental mod...

Gen. McChrystal was a U.S. commander in Afghanistan; you may remember he was fired by President Obama for making, and allowing subordinates ...

The authors of Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment* examine the random variations that occur in judgmental decisions and recommend ways to make...