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Managing The UnexpectedJacksonville FloridaFebruary 28, 2005 Presenters:Karl WeickKathleen SutcliffeWhat is reliability ? reliability depends on the lack of unwanted, unanticipated, and unexplainable variance in performance -Eric Hollnagel, 1993, p. 512 reliability 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, 19973 Examples of High reliability Organizations Nuclear power-generation plants Naval aircraft carriers Chemical production plants

Managing The Unexpected Jacksonville Florida February 28, 2005 Presenters: Karl Weick Kathleen Sutcliffe

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