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…
By Riana Steen, BI Norwegian Business School (Norway) “Flexibility is the operative principle in the art of war. […] Those who are victorious plan effectively and change decisively. They are like a great river that maintains its course but adjusts…
By: Beth Lay 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 as public health, international security, surgical research, and human/automation interaction.Following are notes…
What knowledge, strategies and practices do we have at hand to respond in a flexible manner to COVID-19? Lessons learned from Resilience Engineering and Societal Resilience April 20 By Vanessa Becker Bertoni The speakers Martina Ragosta (Italy), Johan Bergström (Sweden),…
Are we ready to adopt and to adapt resilience principles in practice? In this article, Luca and Daniele from the Italian Company Deep Blue relate resilience management to the COVID-19 crisis using experiences from the European funded project “DARWIN –…
By Dustin Weiller from the Young Talents committee Talk 01 of the REA Webinar series, titled: “What knowledge, strategies, and practices do we have at hand to respond in a flexible manner to COVID-19?” explored lessons and practices from diverse…
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…
Operational Resilience in the US Virgin Islands, Naval Postgraduate School (NPS, Monterey, USA) Author: Daniel A. Eisenberg Is your community prepared to respond to a Category-5 hurricane? Does your community know how to backup electricity and water systems when power…
By: Beth Lay Silence. We have Thai Wood on the phone. Asher looks at me, puzzled, then mouths “who is interviewing who?” Asher and I were together at a meeting; 45 minutes earlier I’d asked if he wanted to “lead…
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…