Accident investigation and risk assessment have for decades focused on the human factor, particularly ‘human error’. This bias towards performance failures

Accident investigation and risk assessment have for decades focused on the human factor, particularly 'human error'. This bias towards performance failures lead

For Resilience Engineering, 'failure' is the result of the adaptations necessary to cope with the complexity of the real world, rather than a breakdown or malfu

Resilience engineering has consistently argued that safety is more than the absence of failures. Since the first book was published in 2006, several book chapte

Accidents are preventable, but only if they are correctly described and understood. Since the mid-1980s accidents have come to be seen as the consequence of com