Building a World-Class Safety Culture: The National Ignition Facility and the Control of Human and Organizational Error

摘要

The first part of this paper is a case study of National Ignition Facility (NIF) and its effort to achieve a world-class safety record. This case study will include a description of (1) NIF's complex systems, (2) NIF's early safety history, (3) factors that may have initiated its safety culture change, and (4) the evolution of its safety blueprint. In the last part of the paper, we will compare NIF's safety culture to what safety industry experts, psychologists, and sociologists say about how to shape a culture and control organizational error.