Assessing organisational risk resilience

Acceptable risk resilience is, for investigators, a close approximation of their ideal of safety. It broadly represents the normal and unproblematic condition of operations being effectively and adequately protected against the potential for disruptions escalating. Many incidents are interpreted as indicating that - for the moment, at least, and in some specific area of operations - organisational practices appear to be effective and robust. These incidents are commonly referred to as being little more 

Some incidents can occasionally bring with them expensive consequences, such as ground damage to an aircraft. But the organisational processes concerned might still be interpreted as adequate and bear few implications for safety. As one investigator explained  

In these two cases - that were by chance expensive - the organisational activities concerned were not deemed to be suffering from any 

This is a standard event, a gear config warning. Often you find they 

Judgements of this kind do not indicate an outright breakdown of safety. One case in point involved drinks cans and empty water bottles -apparently innocuous objects that can become serious hazards on the flight deck. A number of incidents had occurred where empty drinks cans and bottles were found on the floor of the flight deck, wedged behind the rudder pedals. On reviewing these incidents, the most 

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