By Beth Lay (USA) and Matthieu Branlat (Norway) Naturalistic Decision Making (NDM) and Resilience Engineering (RE) researchers and practitioners are beginning to explore synergies with a goal of co-creating new thinking, tools, and practices that will help us in these…
By Mike Rayo (USA) “And I can’t deny the fact that you like me … right now, you like me!”– Sally Field, 1985, accepting Academy Award Photo by Ashim D’Silva on Unsplash Life for me since the beginning of the…
By Kees van der Blom, MSHE, Safety Professional (the Netherlands) A practitioner’s perspective on resilience and our society Illustration from United Nations COVID-19 Response on Unsplash In these times, where the virus causing COVID-19 seems to have taken a leading…
By Carlos T. Formoso, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre (Brazil) – formoso@ufrgs.br Photo by Marcelo Moreira from Pexels The COVID-19 pandemic represents a major threat to the health of millions of people and to the economic and social development…
By Beth LAY (USA) A Conversation with Asher Balkin on Brittleness Encroaching Photo by Jehyun Sung on Unsplash Asher Balkin is a Research Engineer at the Cognitive Systems Engineering Laboratory at Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. Asher has worked in fields as diverse…
By Farook Hamzeh, Associate Professor, University of Alberta (hamzeh@ualberta.ca) Photo by Shivendu Shukla on Unsplash Managers of organizations always prefer planning and resourcing in a routine and repetitive environment (Weick, 1998). However, according to chaos theory, numerous organizational actions can…
It is everywhere, it is hot, and we have a lot to contribute In a 2018 special issue of the Harvard Business Review, provocatively entitled “The end of cybersecurity”, Andy Bochman, expert cybersecurity strategist from the Idaho National Lab, warned:…