By Professor David D Woods, David D, Professor Woods, Nancy, Professor Leveson, Erik, Professor Hollnagel
For Resilience Engineering, 'failure' is the results of the variations essential to take care of the complexity of the genuine global, instead of a breakdown or malfunction. The functionality of people and businesses needs to consistently comply with present stipulations and, simply because assets and time are finite, such changes are regularly approximate. This definitive new booklet explores this groundbreaking new improvement in security and danger administration, the place 'success' is predicated at the skill of agencies, teams and participants to expect the altering form of danger earlier than disasters and damage take place. that includes contributions from the various worlds prime figures within the fields of human components and security, "Resilience Engineering" presents provocative insights into approach security as an mixture of its quite a few elements, subsystems, software program, companies, human behaviours, and how within which they have interaction. The e-book offers an advent to Resilience Engineering of structures, protecting either the theoretical and useful features. it's written for these liable for method defense on managerial or operational degrees alike, together with security managers and engineers (line and maintenance), safeguard specialists, possibility and defense specialists, human elements pros and coincidence investigators.
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From a small set of very simple individual behavioural rules (‘follow pheromone’, ‘bite preys’), a self-organizing, auto-catalytic process is thus triggered, amplifying guidance to the prey, while individual ‘errors’ of ants losing the track allow for new prey discovery. A memory of positive past experience is literally written into the environment, leading to an efficient and adaptive collective strategy to collect food. , 1999; 2000). Ants have virtually no brains (about one hundred neurons, versus about one hundred billion for humans).
An intellect which at any given moment knew all of the forces that animate nature and the mutual positions of the beings that compose it, if this intellect were vast enough to submit the data to analysis, could condense into a single formula the movement of the greatest bodies of the universe and that of the lightest atom; for such an intellect nothing could be uncertain and the future just like the past would be present before its eyes. , Newtonian mechanics) and the initial/boundary conditions are specified at the microscopic level, whether or not we poor Humans can actually predict these states through computation.
Is the organization as well adapted as it thinks it is? Note that boundaries are properties of the model that defines the textbook competence envelope relative to the uncertainties and perturbations it is designed for (Rasmussen, 1990a). Hence, resilience engineering devotes effort to make observable the organization’s model of how it creates safety, in order to see when the model is in need of revision. To do this, Resilience Engineering must monitor organizational decision-making to assess the risk that the organization is operating nearer to safety boundaries than it realizes (Woods, 2005a).