Safety Culture in Large Organiations Such as NASA

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Chris H - 30 Jan 2004 21:06 GMT

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..

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Herb Schaltegger - 30 Jan 2004 21:39 GMT

> Was the Columbia accident attributable to any management / cultural
> problems within NASA? Do other large organisations have any lessons to
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> Chris..

Please start by reading and digesting a good deal of this:

<http://www.nasa.gov/columbia/caib/html/start.html>

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Space Forum / Shuttle / January 2004

Safety Culture in Large Organiations Such as NASA