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),…
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…
by Éder Henriqson Drilling and production of oil and gas in deepwater is a technology and safety-critical challenge. It requires intense technology innovation, specialized labour forces and considerable financial investments. Companies often need to develop new technologies due to the…
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…