Officers
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Riccardo Patriarca, Chair
Sapienza University of Rome (Italy) E-mail: [email protected] |
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Arie Adriaensen, Co-chair
TU Delft University (The Netherlands) E-mail: [email protected] |
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Sylvie Nadeau, Co-Chair
École de technologie supérieure (Canada) E-mail: [email protected] |
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Gesa Praetorius, Co-Chair
Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute, VTI (Sweden) E-mail: [email protected] |
Contact Dr. Tarcisio Abreu Saurin for more information or to join this Technical Committee
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Background
Socio-technical systems have grown larger and more interconnected, implying higher levels of complexity that challenge existing theories and methods based on linear thinking. Resilient Performance (RP), which is the system’s property that enables adaptation and survival in the face of both expected and unexpected circumstances, is paramount under high-complexity conditions. RP is emergent, partly arising from the self-organization of people who fill out gaps in work system design and partly from resources designed ahead of time. These two dimensions of RP interact with each other as well as with several performance dimensions of socio-technical systems such as safety, productivity, quality, sustainability, and reliability.
Resilience Engineering (RE) is a thriving field concerned with understanding and influencing RP in a variety of sectors such as healthcare, aviation, maritime, software engineering, manufacturing, and construction, among others. For that purpose, RE has developed new theories and methods, often re-interpreting existing human factors and ergonomics approaches
Objectives
- Contribute to IEA conferences and other relevant conferences with special sessions, workshops, papers, and group meetings on resilience engineering;
- Collect and share educational materials (e.g., lectures, videos, serious games) on resilience engineering;
- Foster the dialogue of resilience engineering practitioners and academics with the broader human factors and ergonomics community; and
- Support international collaboration on resilience engineering, ideally with funded research projects with participants from multiple countries.
Examples of topics of interest
- Resilience Engineering (RE), safety (and security) management
- System theory
- Measurement of resilient performance
- RE, climate change, natural and man-made disasters
- Modeling of complex socio-technical systems
- Model quantification: metaheuristics and artificial intelligence
- Contribution of digital technologies and industry 4.0/5.0 to resilient performance
- Cyber-resilience
- RE and sustainability
- RE and naturalistic decision-making
- Design for resilient performance
- Design and management of resilient procedures, policies, and rules
- Regulations and resilient performance
- Leadership for resilient performance
- Knowledge management for resilient performance
- Management of trade-offs in socio-technical systems
- Cross-learning opportunities from RE in multiple sectors – e.g., healthcare, aviation, maritime, manufacturing, construction
Structure and news
Run as a social network sustained by both in-person and online meetings
Main planned activities for 2024 – 2027
- Webinars, occasionally in collaboration with other scientific associations;
- Reports on various topics of interest (Digital technologies and RE, business case for RE in ergonomics and human factors)
- Special session/workshop at the 2027 IEA Triennial Conference in London, and at relevant conferences and workshops in between (possibly 2025 Safety-II in practice workshop, 2025 Resilience Engineering Association symposium).
Reports
Report of activities – Resilience Engineering TC 2023