Re: Need name of woman who assessed NASA safety culture

From: Brian Lawrence (Brian_W_LawrenceREMTHIS_at_msn.com)
Date: 12/17/04


Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 15:45:48 -0000


"Jim Oberg" <jameseoberg@houston.rr.com> wrote:

> Need name of woman who assessed NASA safety culture
>
>
> After Columbia went down, NASA looked around
> for outside comments on its safety practices, and
> brought in a woman who had earlier published
> a book on NASA's bad practices -- a book nobody
> at NASA seemed to ever recall seeing before.
>
> What was her name and that of her book, please?
>
> Need this for an article -- will post article here,
> once it's published next week.

Possibly Diane Vaughan, "The Challenger Launch Decision"?

-- 
Brian Lawrence
Brian_W_Lawrence@msn.com
Wantage, Oxfordshire, UK 


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