Safety Culture in Large Organiations Such as NASA

Was the Columbia accident attributable to any management / cultural problems
within NASA? Do other large organisations have any lessons to learn from the
Columbia disaster and subsequent accident investigation board findings? Was
there any fundamental flaws in NASA's Safety Culture / Safety Management
System, which we need to learn from?

I would be interested to hear your views.

Best Regards,

Chris

"Chris H" wrote:
Was the Columbia accident attributable to any management / cultural problems
within NASA? Do other large organisations have any lessons to learn from the
Columbia disaster and subsequent accident investigation board findings? Was
there any fundamental flaws in NASA's Safety Culture / Safety Management
System, which we need to learn from?

I would be interested to hear your views.

Best Regards,

Chris


Appearently the CAIB devoted some time to considering just such
questions, as well as what organizations NASA could learn from. Seems
to me they made a written note about that somewhere.

/dps