Hollnagel E., Pariès J., Woods D., Wreathall J. (Eds.) Resilience Engineering in Practice. Volume 1: A Guidebook

Ashgate Publishing Company, Burlington, USA, 2011, 363 p. — (Ashgate Studies in Resilience Engineering) — ISBN: 9781409410355The focus for safety efforts is usually, and traditionally, the unwanted outcomes, injuries, and losses that are the result of adverse events. This matches the common understanding of safety as ‘freedom from unacceptable risk.’ Resilience engineering, however, defines safety as the ability to succeed under varying conditions. it is a consequence of this definition that it is equally important to study things that go right as things that go wrong. For Resilience engineering, the understanding of the normal functioning of a socio-technical system is the necessary and sufficient basis for understanding how it fails. And it is both easier and more effective to increase safety by improving the number of things that go right, than by reducing the number of things that go wrong. The definition of resilience can be made more concrete by pointing to four abilities that are necessary for a system to be resilient. These are the ability to respond to events, to monitor ongoing developments, to anticipate future threats and opportunities, and to learn from past failures and successes alike. The engineering of resilience comprises the ways in which these four capabilities can be established and managed.Dealing With the Actual
Resilience and the Ability to Respond
Lessons from the hudson
Coping with uncertainty. Resilient Decisions in Anaesthesia
Training Organisational Resilience in escalating Situations
Dealing With the Critical
Monitoring – A Critical Ability in Resilience engineering
From Flight Time Limitations to Fatigue Risk Management Systems – A way Toward Resilience
Practices for noticing and Dealing with the Critical. A Case Study from Maintenance of
Power Plants
Cognitive Strategies in emergency and Abnormal Situations Training – Implications
for Resilience in Air Traffic Control
Dealing With the Potential
Resilience and the Ability to Anticipate
Basic Patterns in How Adaptive Systems Fail
Measuring Resilience in the Planning of Rail engineering work
The Art of Balance: using upward Resilience Traits to Deal with Conflicting Goals
The Importance of Functional Interdependencies in Financial Services Systems
Dealing With the Factual
To Learn or not to Learn, that is the Question
No Facts, no Glory
From Myopic Coordination to Resilience in Socio-technical Systems. A Case Study in a Hospital
Requisites for Successful Incident Reporting in Resilient Organisations
Is the Aviation Industry Ready for Resilience? Mapping human Factors Assumptions across the Aviation Sector