Applications in Industry
Examples of ongoing and past case studies applying Resilience Engineering across sectors — from aviation and healthcare to tech and energy.
RE in Practice
Browse how organisations around the world are implementing resilience engineering principles.
Nasa
- Elizabeth Lay, David Woods, Mike Rayo
- View Project
International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
- Stéphane
- ICAO Safety Management Panel + ICAO Integrated Risk Management Study Group — Ongoing implementation of RE in ICAO documentation.
JR-EAST — East Japan Railway Company
- Taro Kanno, Daisuke Karikawa, Hidenori Fujino
- REA Blog
Kitasato University Hospital / UBAYA Hospital
- Taro Kanno, Shun'ichi Tada
- KAKENHI Project
Carepro, Inc.
- Taro Kanno
- View Project
US Department of Energy
- Elizabeth Lay, Laurin Mooney
- Revising HPI Handbook to include RE (available upon request).
European Commission
- Ivonne Herrera, Anthony Smoker
- Horizon 2020 projects. Horizon Europe and SESAR projects: WP16.06.01b, FARO, CODA, CODA2, RESPOND.
Netflix
- Lorin Hochstein, John Allspaw
- TBA
Etsy
- TBA
American Airlines / Flight Safety Foundation
- Nick Peterson, James Kwasny, James Norman, Miriam Balkin (former Christine Jefferies), Asher Balkin
- Learning from All Operations (PDF)
Qantas
- Riccardo Patriarca, Arie Adriaensen, Mark Peters
- REA Proceedings Paper
EASA (European Aviation Safety Agency)
- Anthony Smoker
- HF-CAG: SI3009 resilience, SI 3016, Complexity in operations. Rule Making Tasks: RMT 312 Safety KPIs for RP5.
Federal Aviation Administration
- Mike Rayo, David Woods, Shawn Pruchnicki
- TBA
Eurocontrol
- Riccardo Patriarca, David Woods, Mike Rayo
- TBA
Useful Links
Resilience Engineering brings tools, methods, and insights that transform how your organisation handles complexity.
SNAFUcatchers
Safety Differently
Safety policy: from compliance to desire-driven
Resilient Health Care
Resilience Healthcare Learning Network
Resilience Engineering in Healthcare
SKYbrary
ComplexWorld (Innaxis)
Humanistic Systems
Steven Shorrock’s blog
Erik Hollnagel — Ideas
FRAM — Functional Resonance
FRAM — Functional Resonance
Also of interest: David Woods Research Program — Center for Resilience, Ohio State University; David Woods lectures on resilience — “Woods on Adaptability” (video stream);