By BobCudlin on
9/24/2009 2:48 PM
 The quote is from Lou Gerstner, retired Chairman of IBM, and appears in an interesting presentation by the management team at Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Company. In it they put forth their perspectives on addressing culture change within their organization.
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By BobCudlin on
9/18/2009 6:48 AM
A recent Wall Street Journal article indicates that Air France is taking an unusual step in asking its partner airline, Delta, to help assess its safety practices.
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By BobCudlin on
9/17/2009 7:00 AM
“So it appears that man is capable of controlling the climate, but not the atom. God is laughing.”
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By BobCudlin on
9/16/2009 5:52 PM
Most people remember the 2002 discovery of the corrosive hole in the Davis Besse reactor vessel head. But what about the seven year regulatory hole the plant and its organization fell into as a result of the reactor vessel head incident?
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By BobCudlin on
9/12/2009 10:57 AM
The line of thinking in the Wahlström and Rollenhagen paper and the LearnSafe project appears to provide a strong nudge away from thinking of safety culture in terms of a set of beliefs and values. Or of thinking of safety culture as something apart from the how the multiple, complex decision processes within an organization are occurring.
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By BobCudlin on
9/10/2009 7:33 AM
 Is safety culture a concept unto itself or a state that is defined by many constituent actions? Some of our thinking about safety culture in developing NuclearSafetySim led us to focus on safety management as opposed to safety culture. Safety management includes the key levers of organizational performance and the integrated effect of the manipulation of these levers results in a safety culture “value” in the simulation. Thus all the dynamics flow from actions and decisions to a safety culture resultant, not the reverse.
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By BobCudlin on
9/8/2009 6:37 PM
I thought I would use this question as an entre back into some of Professor Bernhard Wilpert’s work with what became known as the LearnSafe project. LearnSafe research led to the question of whether it is useful to put forward safety culture as a top level concept that somehow is responsible for or “produces” safety. Or would it be better to think of it as an organic process that continuously evolves and develops within an organization.
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By BobCudlin on
9/3/2009 1:52 PM
 The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) took another step toward a new safety culture by reducing the emphasis on blame in the reporting of operational errors by air traffic controllers. Effective immediately, the names of controllers will not be included in reports sent to FAA headquarters on operational errors.
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By BobCudlin on
9/2/2009 8:45 AM
 Commissioner Klein’s recent address to the ANS once again hits on the complacency issue.
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By BobCudlin on
9/1/2009 6:57 AM
 Workers at Electricite de France are raising concerns about conflicting pressures to work faster, achieve higher capacity factors and provide competitive electricity. While it remains to be seen the extent of such concerns, it is apparent that central ownership does not provide a shield against many of the same pressures experienced by U.S. plants.
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