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Managing The UnexpectedJacksonville FloridaFebruary 28, 2005Presenters:Karl WeickKathleen SutcliffeWhat is reliability ? reliability depends on the lack of unwanted, unanticipated, and unexplainable variance in performance -Eric Hollnagel, 1993, p. 512Reliability at Diablo Canyon (1) The major determinant of reliability in an organization is not how greatly it values reliability or safety per se over other organizational values, but rather how greatly it disvaluesthe mis-specification, mis-estimation, and misunderstanding of things;(2)All else being equal, the more things that more members of an organization care about mis-specifying, mis-estimating, and misunderstanding, the higher the level of reliability that organization can hope to attain -Paul Schulman, 19973Examples of High reliability Organizations Nuclear power-generation plants Naval aircraft carriers Chemical production plants Offshore drilling rigs Air traffic control systems Incident command teams Wildland firefighting crews Hospital ER/Intensive care units Investment banks4Basic Message Mindful u

Reliability at Diablo Canyon “(1) The major determinant of reliability in an organization is not how greatly it values reliability or safety per se

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