by guest editor David Provan In most organisations, the dominance of compliance-focused safety management approaches requires a concerted effort to deploy the insights from a holistic view of both traditional and contemporary theories to build the foundations for growing resilient…
by Professor Janet Anderson1 & Dr Satyan Chari2,3 1Professor of Human Factors, Department of Anaesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Monash University 2Adjunct fellow, Centre for Human Factors and Sociotechnical Systems 3Program Director – CEQ Bridge Labs, Clinical Excellence Queensland The field…
by Laurin Mooney Do your eyes glaze over when somebody says “High Reliability Organizing” or “HRO?” Do you find your body tensing, preparing for a recital of the “5 Hallmarks” that again leave you unclear on what “practising” HRO means? …
Editors: Florinda Matos, Paulo Maurício Selig, Eder Henriqson Why publish a book with the title Resilience in a Digital Age: Global Challenges in Organisations and Society? In recent years, resilience has become a buzzword as it is cited regarding climate…
Conference Name Association / Community When Where Link 66th Annual Meeting, HFES Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) October 10-14, 2022 Atlanta, Georgia ErgoX Symposium Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) October 14-15, 2022 Atlanta, Georgia NES22 – 51st NES…
Brazilian and Norwegian universities are promoting the 4th edition of a free course on resilience engineering. This year´s edition starts on the 2nd of September and is comprised of 15 online meetings with lectures given by leading scholars from several…
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…
Review by E. Asher Balkin & Dane Morey In his newest book, Ten Patterns That Explain The Universe (MIT press, 2021), a well-known science author presents an implicit argument for the driving forces behind the development and operation of the…
By Pedro Ferreira, Ph.D., Secretary of REA Last year’s symposium was a challenge in many ways. In our best tradition, we worked to explore new possibilities in the face of radical uncertainty and entirely novel conditions. The outcome was considered…
By Lida David, University of Twente, The Netherlands | l.david@utwente.nl REA is officially celebrating the release of 10 REA newsletter issues, so delve with us into a journey looking back on the topics we’ve explored so far, before moving forward to…