Resilience engineering concepts and precepts
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Aldershot, England
Ashgate
2006
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| Collection: | O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Prologue: resilience engineering concepts
- Part I. Emergence
- 1. Resilience: the challenge of the unstable
- Systems are ever-changing
- 2. Essential characteristics of resilience
- 3. Defining resilience
- Nature of changes in systems
- 4. Complexity, emergence, resilience ...
- 5. A typology of resilience situations
- Resilient systems
- 6. Incidents: markers of resilience or brittleness?
- 7. Resilience engineering: chronicling the emergence of confused consensus
- Part II. Cases and processes
- 8. Engineering resilience into safety-critical systems
- 9. Is resilience really necessary?: the case of railways
- Systems are never perfect
- 10. Structure for management of weak and diffuse signals
- 11. Organizational resilience and industrial risk
- An evil chain mechanism leading to failures
- 12. Safety management in airlines
- 13. Taking things in one's own stride: cognitive features of two resilient performances
- 14. Erosion of managerial resilience: from VASA to NASA
- 15. Learning how to create resilience in business systems
- 16. Optimum system safety and optimum system resilience: agnostic or antagonistic concepts?
- Part III. Challenges for a practice of resilience engineering
- 17. Properties of resilient organizations: an initial view
- Remedies
- 18. Auditing resilience in risk control and safety management systems
- 19. How to design a safety organization: test case for resilience engineering
- Rules and procedures
- 20. Distancing through differencing: an obstacle to organizational learning following accidents
- 21. States of resilience
- Epilogue: resilience engineering precepts
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-388) and indexes