By Tarcisio Saurin, Associate Professor, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul | saurin@ufrgs.br As of January 2022, the International Ergonomics Association (IEA) has a new Technical Committee (TC) dedicated to Resilience Engineering (RE). In line with core human factors and ergonomics…
By Gil Regev, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne | gil.regev@epfl.ch Hollnagel (2006, pp. 17-18) defines the challenge for resilience engineering as the necessity to “understand when a system may lose its dynamic stability and become unstable.” Resilience is therefore the maintenance of dynamic stability.…
By Dong-Han Ham, Chonnam National University, South Korea | donghan.ham@gmail.com Two new safety issues-Safety-II and resilience engineering (RE) have been attracting much attention in South Korea. Here, I would like to introduce the following briefly: (1) how Korean safety engineers and…
By Dana Womack, Ph.D., RN, FAMIA, and Christine Jefferies, MSN, RN The Covid-19 pandemic was a shock to hospital work systems around the globe. Over a short period, hospitals experienced a dramatic shift in the type and volume of services…
By Changwon Son, Ph.D., CSP, Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial, Manufacturing, and Systems Engineering, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA Communities in the world have experienced or witnessed increasing risks of disasters. Since 1980, the US has sustained over 300…
by J. Paul Reed (Netflix, USA) “I just got pager alert! Our service is reporting 100% CPU utilization; any ideas?” “Not sure, but let’s start by reverting the last code deployment and seeing if that helps.” “Ok… uhh… how do…
By Francois Jaulin and Frédéric Martin (co founders Patient Safety Database and SafeTeam Academy) In 2016, authors reported that medical errors were the third leading cause of death in the United States and among the top ten causes of death…
Authors: Beth Crandall, Gary Klein, and Robert Hoffman MIT Press, 2006 Reviewed by Laura Militello (CEO at Applied Decision Science, and VP Research at Unveil) Working Minds: A practitioners’ guide to cognitive task analysis is an important resource for anyone…
By Guillermina Andrea Peñaloza, Ph.D. As construction projects have become more complex – either due to the growth in the portfolio of projects or the characteristics of each unique project and construction site – the need for approaches to capture…
By Laura Maguire, PhD Critical digital infrastructure (CDI) is increasingly at the core of many high-risk domains that serve societal needs. Electronic health records, military intelligence surveillance, 911 call routing systems and monitoring of high hazard processes like nuclear power…