A thank you note from the Resilience Engineering Association and the Executive Committee. We would like to share our appreciation of Ivonne Herrera for the four years she served as the President of the Resilience Engineering Association. Ivonne kept us together…
by Beth Lay, Director of Safety & Human Performance, Lewis Tree Service Think about the many times when your organization has been under stress. In the utility vegetation management industry, we don’t have to look far. Over the past two…
David D Woods (Cognitive Systems Engineering, The Ohio State University) David L Alderson (Naval Postgraduate School) Thomas P Seager)(Sustainability Conoscente Network & Arizona State University) Without reliable sensing on the state and trajectory of the current system, decision-makers must avoid…
By Laurin Mooney and Beth Lay We’ve been trained for decades to do a thorough pre-task brief focused on identifying and managing every risk we can think of. While this is a fine, there’s a major problem when applying…
Dave Woods and Tom Seager apply resilience principles to COVID-19.
By Chris Hamby Jan. 21, 2020 After a Boeing 737 crashed near Amsterdam more than a decade ago, an expert study that sharply criticized the manufacturer was never published by the Dutch safety authorities, and its key findings were either excluded…
From Erik Hollnagel. ” A system is resilient if it can adjust its functioning prior to, during, or following events (changes, disturbances, and opportunities), and thereby sustain required operations under both expected and unexpected conditions. “ Origins ‘Resilience’ is a…
December 16, 2019: Professor Erik Hollnagel All I want for Christmas is my Resilience questions answered! An interactive forum with Prof. Hollnagel. Submit your questions here before December 5th. Previous November 26, 2019: Due to health issues, this webinar was…
Tom Seager shares the verbs of resilience at 2019 Safety II workshop St. Pete Fla.
Argentina was plunged into darkness that affected 44 million people Sunday. And Target says its stores are operating normally after glitches prevented customers from paying with some credit cards over the weekend. These are some of the latest examples of…