Overview
- Focuses on the development of resilience engineering (RE) as a concept and a field of practice that has contributed to expanding the scope of safety from a preoccupation with failure, to also include the acceptable everyday functioning of a system or an organisation
- Includes case studies that translate RE concepts into practice and demonstrates RE's practical value to researchers, operators, and managers using life experience
- Written in an accessible style to enable those who are new to RE to easily understand concepts and appeal to new practitioners and students
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Resilience Engineering (RE) studies have successfully identified and described many instances of resilient performance in high hazard sectors as well as in the far more frequent cases where people and organisations cope with the uncertainties of daily operations. Since RE was first described in 2006, a steady accumulation of insights and efforts have provided the basis for practical tools and methods. This development has been documented by a series of texts in the Resilience Engineering Perspectives series as well as by a growing number of papers and reports.
This book encapsulates the essential practical lessons learned from the use of Resilience Engineering (RE) for over ten years. The main contents are a series of chapters written by those who have been instrumental in these applications. To increase the value for the reader, each chapter will include: rationale for the overall approach; data sought and reason(s) for choosing; data sources used, data analyses performed, and how recommendations were made and turned into practice.
This book encapsulates the essential practical lessons learned from the use of Resilience Engineering (RE) for over ten years. The main contents are a series of chapters written by those who have been instrumental in these applications. To increase the value for the reader, each chapter will include: rationale for the overall approach; data sought and reason(s) for choosing; data sources used, data analyses performed, and how recommendations were made and turned into practice.
Serving as a reference for practitioners who want to analyse, support, and manage resilient performance, this book also advances research into RE by inquiring why work goes well in unpredictable environments, to improve work performance, or compensate for deficiencies.
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Christopher Nemeth conducts human performance research and development in high hazard sectors as a Principal Scientist with Applied Research Associates, a 1400 member U.S. science and engineering consulting firm. His 26-year academic career has included seven years in the Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care at the University of Chicago Medical Center, and adjunct positions with Northwestern University’s McCormick College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Illinois Institute of Technology. He has served as a committee member of the National Academy of Sciences, is author/editor of five books, and is widely published in technical journals.Erik Hollnagel is Senior professor of Patient Safety at Jönköping University (Sweden), Visiting Professorial Fellow, Macquarie University (Australia), and Visiting Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Technische Universität München (Germany). He is also Professor Emeritus from Linköping University (Sweden), Ecole des Mines de Paris (France), and the University of Southern Denmark. Erik has throughout his career worked at universities, research centres, and with industries in many countries and with problems from a variety of domains and industries. He has published widely and is the author/editor of 26 books, including six books on resilient health care, as well as a large number of papers and book chapters.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Advancing Resilient Performance
Editors: Christopher P. Nemeth, Erik Hollnagel
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74689-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-74688-9Published: 12 October 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-74691-9Published: 13 October 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-74689-6Published: 11 October 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 158
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: Security Science and Technology, Sustainable Development, Mechatronics, System Performance and Evaluation, Complex Systems, Principles and Models of Security