Connecting Culture to Safety Performance – Lessons from Major Organizational Accidents
Topic: Connecting Culture to Safety Performance – Lessons from Major Organizational Accidents Speaker: Steve Arendt, Vice President North American Process Industries Sector Organizational Performance Assurance ABSG Consulting, Inc. Houston, TX When: Wednesday, October 14, 2009, 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. EDT Where: 308 Pasqua Engineering Building University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN Webcast: http://www.engr.utk.edu/nuclear/colloquia Viewers of the live webcast may submit questions and/or comments to the speaker either before or during the live webcast via an email message to utne@utk.edu. Please include your name and affiliation in your email message. Viewers who miss the live webcast can view the archived webcast, which is usually posted within 24 hours, at http://www.engr.utk.edu/nuclear/colloquia/Archive/. Viewers may also receive the speaker's slides in PDF format via email request to Kristin England (kengland@utk.edu) after the live webcast. Abstract: Over the years, a number of major accidents (e.g., Chernobyl, Piper Alpha, NASA shuttles, BP Texas City) have been investigated and have been called organizational accidents, marked by pervasive failure the safety culture which allowed the organizations accident prevention barriers to erode. This presentation will review lessons learned from some of these accidents, overview an industry framework for understanding safety culture, present results from a number of safety culture evaluations in the process industries. These results were developed using a performance assurance review approach that mapped process safety performance outcomes to their culture causal factors. This framework and approach has applicability to all industries, including nuclear power, which use technology, management systems and people to control the risk of major accidents. All students and faculty are invited to attend. UTNE Graduate Students who hold Assistantships or Fellowships are required to attend in person. Refreshments will be provided in 219 Pasqua immediately following the colloquium.
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