Resilience Engineering: Concepts and Precepts
The aim of this book is to provide an introduction to resilience engineering of systems, covering both the theoretical and practical aspects. It is written for people who, as part of their work, are responsible for system safety on managerial or operational levels alike. Resilience Engineering will be directly relevant to professionals such as safety managers and engineers (line and maintenance), security experts, risk and safety consultants, human factors professionals and accident...
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The aim of this book is to provide an introduction to resilience engineering of systems, covering both the theoretical and practical aspects. It is written for people who, as part of their work, are responsible for system safety on managerial or operational levels alike. Resilience Engineering will be directly relevant to professionals such as safety managers and engineers (line and maintenance), security experts, risk and safety consultants, human factors professionals and accident investigators.
Prologue : resilience engineering concepts1Pt. IEmergence1Resilience : the challenge of the unstable9Systems are ever-changing192Essential characteristics of resilience213Defining resilience35Nature of changes in systems414Complexity, emergence, resilience ...435A typology of resilience situations55Resilient systems676Incidents - markers of resilience or brittleness?697Resilience engineering : chronicling the emergence of confused consensus77Pt. IICases and processes8Engineering resilience into safety-critical systems959Is resilience really necessary? : the case of railways125Systems are never perfect14910Structure for management of weak and diffuse signals15111Organizational resilience and industrial risk155An evil chain mechanism reading to failures18112Safety management and airlines18313Taking things in one's stride : cognitive features of two resilient performances20514Erosion of managerial resilience : from VASA to NASA22315Learning how to create resilience in business systems23516Optimum system safety and optimum system resilience : agonistic or antagonistic concepts?253Pt. IIIChallenges for a practice of resilience engineering17Properties of resilient organizations : an initial view275Remedies28718Auditing resilience in risk control and safety management systems28919How to design a safety organization : test case for resilience engineering315Rules and procedures32720Distancing through differencing : an obstacle to organizational learning following accidents32921States of resilience339Epilogue : resilience engineering precepts347
