REA Newsletter
Latest News about Resilience Engineering
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A word from this issue's editor
By Lorin Hochstein
Welcome to issue #2 of the REA newsletter, where we'll be adding some resilience to your holiday season. Many thanks to Beth Lay for editing issue #1. Our goal is to produce a newsletter every two months.
We're always on the lookout for contributions from the community for the newsletter. If you would like to contribute an article for a future issue, send us an email at communications@resilience-engineering-association.org.
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President's Corner: Intersection between resilience and innovation management
By Ivonne Herrera, President, Resilience Engineering Association
What do resilience engineering and innovation management have in common? In this article, Ivonne Herrera explores the overlap between these two areas and what this means for organizations.
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Nordic REA meeting: Norway, May 25-27, 2020
By Ivonne Herrera
REA is starting a new initiative to hold smaller, regional meetings across the world between the bi-annual REA symposia. The first regional meeting we are planning will take place 25-27 May 2020 (lunch to lunch) on the Tautra natural reserve Island, Norway.
The goal of this meeting is to work together on Resilience Engineering mapping concepts, models, methods and applications on diverse domains will be discussed. This will enable progress building on past and current experiences and knowledge. Practitioners (academia and industry) from Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway will be welcome to attend or RE practitioners travelling close-by.
Let us know if we are missing some RE practitioners. Participation is limited to 25-30 people. We hope these kind of meetings can be performed across the world between the bi-annual REA symposium. Contact: ivonne.a.herrera@sintef.no
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Asher Balkin interviews Resilience Roundup's Thai Wood
By Beth Lay
Thai Wood writes about resilience engineering every week in his Resilience Roundup newsletter. Asher Balkin, a safety researcher at OSU Cognitive Systems Lab with David Woods, interviewed Thai. Or did Thai interview Asher?
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Resilience Engineering in practice: applying TORC to a subscription book club
By Priscila Wachs
In this article, Priscila Wachs demonstrates how resilience engineering concepts can applied beyond safety-critical systems. She described how she worked with one of her students to apply Training for Operational Resilience Capabilities (TORC) to the challenges faced by a subscription book club company.
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REA 2013-2019 Young Talents: where we’ve come from over the last six years
By Sudeep Hegde and Riccardo Patriarca
The 2019 REA Symposium marked the fourth year of the Young Talents Program, which brought in Masters and PhD students from all over the world for a one-day workshop. In this piece, Sudeep Hegde and Riccardo Patriarca (two of the current organizers of the Young Talents network) reflect on the program over the years and the geographical diversity of the participants, including a nifty dashboard!
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Book Corner: Working Across Boundaries. Resilient Health Care Volume 5
Reviewed by Tarcisio Abreu Saurin
Edited by Jeffrey Braithwaite, Erik Hollnagel, and Garth S. Hunte, published by CRC Press (2019). The book has 15 chapters written by resilient healthcare experts from several countries. Chapters are divided into five parts: openings, negotiating across boundaries, theorising about boundaries, empiricising boundaries, and closure. Contents make it clear the fluid nature of boundaries in healthcare systems, as well as that there is a wide variety of types of boundaries.
The main theme of the book, collaboration across boundaries, has grown in importance in healthcare research and practice, given the need for multidisciplinary care teams and larger healthcare systems, with multiple participants from different backgrounds. As such, the chapters address many issues such as resolving conflict, collaborative use of slack resources, overcoming barriers to patient-flow management, and building connections through negotiation. They represent a range of approaches, rather than a single way of solving the practical problems, and have been written to serve both a scientific and a practical purpose.
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Resilience Engineering should look more closely at cybersecurity
By Matthieu Branlat
Most cybersecurity research today focuses solely on protection and technical aspects. In this article, Matthieu Branlat argues that cybersecurity research could benefit from a human-centered perspective inspired by resilience engineering.
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Human Factors and Resilience Engineering in oil and gas in Brazil
By Éder Henriqson
In this article, Éder Henriqson discusses a Brazilian research project to develop a human factors program for a consortium of energy companies involved in offshore drilling.
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Podcast: The Safety of Work
The Safety of Work is a new podcast by Drew Rae and David Provan from the Safety Science Innovation Lab at Griffith University. In this weekly series, the hosts will demystify and devolve safety science research in a practical way so that you can declutter your approach to safety management.
The REA website now has a podcasts page with links to our favorite podcasts that are related to resilience engineering.
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Resilience Engineering webinar series
Professor Erik Hollnagel, Dec. 16, 2019
All I want for Christmas... is my resilience engineering questions answered!
This talk will not be a formal presentation but instead, a unique interactive Q&A discussion. Leading Resilience Engineering expert Erik Hollnagel will answer your questions on resilience, safety, cognitive systems engineering and human-computer interaction. Previously submitted questions will form the basis of the discussion with opportunities to expand during the seminar.
Upcoming seminars:
Jenny Colman (WorkSafeBC), Jan. 21, 2020
Resilience in regulation
Dr. Michael Rayo (The Ohio State University), Feb. 19, 2020
Systemic Contributors Adaptations Diagramming
The complete list of upcoming seminars and videos from past seminars can be found on the seminars page of the REA website.
We also plan on rescheduling Sarah Carriere's webinar From cheese to STEW: incorporating a systems' approach to critical incident analysis, which was originally scheduled for November.
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Resilience engineering around the internet
In an essay on the Forbes website titled In Focusing On What Pilots Do Wrong, We May Be Missing Valuable Lessons From What They Quietly Do Right, Kirsty Kiernan discusses resilience engineering research being done at NASA and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University,
A new website called Learning from Incidents in Software just launched to help bring resilience engineering concepts to the software engineering community. Check out the introductory post by Nora Jones. (note: this issue's guest editor is a contributor to that site).
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Upcoming events
- January 29-30, 2020, Workshop on Learning from accidents: The Costa Concordia case with Nippin Anand and Erik Hollnagel, Oslo, Norway
- February 24-26, 2020, Safety II Tutorial and Safety II in Practice Workshop with Erik Hollnagel through Forge Works, Brisbane City, Australia
- May 25-27, 2020, REA Nordic meeting, Tautra natural reserve Island, Norway. Contact ivonne.a.herrera@sintef.no for details.
- June 9-11, 2020, ORCHSE HOP Summit, Houston, TX, USA. Has a resilience engineering and highly reliable organizing track. Beth Lay and Asher Balkin are track organizers.
- June 11-12 2020, 3rd International Workshop on Safety-II in Practice, Edinburgh Scotland
- June 16-18, 2020, 9th Resilient Healthcare Meeting, Sweden
- June 16-19, 2020, Human Performance, Root Cause, and Trending (HPRCT) 2020, Portsmouth, Virginia, USA. Has an HRO / resilience track, Laurin Mooney is track organizer. Abstract deadline: January 31, 2020 (submission link). Conference theme: growing our community.
- Optimizing human performance (HP)
- Understanding and Addressing the Causes of Things That Go Wrong (RC)
- Using Metrics to Monitor Performance Improvement (T)
- Establishing a High Reliability, Resilient Organization (HRO)
- June 21-26, 2020, The 30th European Safety and Reliability Conference and 15th Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management Conference, Venice Italy
- July 16-20, 2020, 11th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics, San Diego, USA.
- October 5-9, 2020, 64th International Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES), Chicago, USA. https://www.hfes.org/home
- October 6-8, 2020, Systems Thinking for Safety course with Steven Shorrock through EUROCONTROL, Luxembourg
- June 2021 9th REA Symposium: Bringing Us Together, joint meeting with Naturalistic Decision Making, France (tentative)
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REA Communications team
Resilience Engineering Association newsletter and website blog are brought to you by the Resilience Engineering Association Communications team:
- Beth Lay, Lewis Tree Services, USA
- Lorin Hochstein, Netflix, USA
- Matthieu Branlat, SINTEF, Norway
- Tarcisio Saurin, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
- Sheuwen Chuang, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan
Contact any of us directly with news or submissions or send to communications@resilience-engineering-assocation.org.
Looking forward to hearing from you!
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