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Resilience Engineering

Tom Geraghty · Safety & Human Error, Ecological Thinking, Complexity & Systems

Introduces Resilience Engineering as a field that focuses on how complex adaptive systems cope with surprise. Uses Marquet's USS Santa Fe as a case study in how creating PS conditions — through intent-based leadership and distributed agency — produces resilience as an emergent property.

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• Organizing for High Reliability: Processes of Collective Mindfulness (paper)
• Working in Practice But Not in Theory: Theoretical Challenges of "High-Reliability Organizations" (paper)
• A New Accident Model for Engineering Safer Systems (paper)
• From Safety-I to Safety-II: A White Paper (paper)
• Resilience and Precarious Success (paper)
• Resilience, Adaptability and Transformability in Social-Ecological Systems (paper)
• Efficiency vs Resilience
• HOP
• Principles of Adaptive Management in Complex Safety-Critical Organizations (paper)
• State of Science: Evolving Perspectives on 'Human Error' (paper)
• Systems Thinking for Safety: Ten Principles. A White Paper — Moving Towards Safety-II (paper)
• The Collapse of Sensemaking in Organizations: The Mann Gulch Disaster (paper)
• Variation in Hospital Mortality Associated with Inpatient Surgery (paper)
• Adaptive Cycle
• Building and Revising Adaptive Capacity Sharing for Technical Incident Response: A Case of Resilience Engineering (paper)
• Normal Accidents
• Safety I & Safety II
• WAI vs WAD
• Events & Meet-ups