Resilience engineering

Hollnagel, E., Paries, J., Woods, D.D. and Wreathall, J. (eds.) (2011) Resilience Engineering in Practice A Cuidebook. Ashgate Aldershot. 

The perspective of resilience engineering has heen of interest. We have tried to identify indicators enabling us to foresee and avoid incidents but also to increase resilience in general i.e. to be able to recover from something bad happening or reducing the... 

Resilience This could be an issue related to managing margins and the need to explore performance boundaries of design. Resilience engineering should be used to ensure that the equipment has tolerance and can degrade gracefully. 

Hollnagel, E. 2006. Resilience - the Challenge of the Unstable from E.Holnagel, Woods D., Leveson N. in Resilience Enginering Ashgate, ISBN 0-7546-4641-6. 

Hollnagel, E. Woods, DD Leveson, N. 2006. Resilience Engineering - Concepts and Precepts. Aldershot Ashgate. 

Based on this review we would like to explore resilience engineering in risk analysis of complex organizations. 

Westrum (2006) has structured threats in a way that could be useful in resilience engineering ... 

To explore the scope and usabihty of resilience engineering we have based our discussion on three accident models as mentioned in Hollnagel (2006) ... 

The reflection on the third question - What is the new concepts in resilience engineering enabling improved safety is more complex. 

Figure 4. Resilience engineering, mitigating normal accidents.

We suggest that resilience engineering has given us a perspective to discuss and mitigate normal accidents. When we move into the Black Swan environment, see Taleb (2007), exploring an highly improbable... 

Resilience Engineering is a new and expanding field. There is a need to explore the effects of resilience engineering, especially related to the development of safety and resilience. The effects could be as suggested by Hale - i.e. the safety performance over a long period of time coupled with prosperity on the basis of measures such as production, service, productivity and quality. 

The challenge may be to identify a research setting to examine the use and the results of resilience engineering. Key issues to be decided are the research design, scope (what organisations and systems shold be examined) and which elements from RE should be explored This is discussed in the folowing section. 

The approach to be evaluated is suggested to be a risk and vulnerability analysis, one analysis performed with the perspective of Resilience Engineering and one classical without RE perspective. We are suggesting to compare the results of the two processes - both in the short term result and the long term effect. 

Cuvelier L., Falzon P. 2008. Methodological Issues in the Quest for Resilience Factors" in Hollnagel E, Fieri E, Rigaud E. Proceedings of the third Resilience Engineering Symposium Ecole des mines de Paris. 

Dekker S., Dahlstrom N., Winsen R., Nyce J.M. 2008. Crew Resilience and Simulator Training in Aviation" in Hollnagel E., Nemeth C.R, Dekker S. Resilience Engineering Perspectives Volume 1 remaining Sensitive to the Possibility of Failure - Ashgate. 

The Helicopter Safety Study 3 (HSS-3) is a joint industry effort by the main oil companies operating on the NCS. Main objectives of the study are to assess the risk level associated with offshore helicopter transportation, propose indicators to monitor safety, and identify safely measures for further improvement. The study will address risk through two complementary approaches a risk approach using risk influence modeling, and a safety approach focusing on resilience engineering. The project was established... 

HSS-3 will also consider new developments in safety theories, and study risk in a resilience engineering perspective. New theories address safety as a phenomenon that emerges from complex dynamic systems that are not amenable by simple causal explanations. The results from this approach will complement the results from the more traditional risk influence modeling approach described in this paper. 

Elements in the adaptation process in Resilience Engineering (Hollnagel and Woods, 2006). 

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