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Barnes PDF
Barnes PDF
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Overview
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Roots of the Safety Culture Concept
• Anthropology
• Sociology
• Organizational psychology
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History: Anthropology
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History: Organizational Psychology
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UK Health & Safety Executive (1993)
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Guldenmund (2000)
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Mearns, et al (2003)
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Von Thaden and Gibbons (2008)
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Barnes (2009)
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What Safety Culture is Not
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Why Do We Care?
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Challenges We Face
• Majority of NRC-regulated activities do
not occur in large, stable organizations.
Some are performed by –
– individuals working independently
– very small groups
– a single unit within a larger organization that
otherwise performs few or no nuclear safety-
related activities
– a rapidly changing workforce
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Goals for Common Definition
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Discussion
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