Resilience Engineering Perspectives

Download or read book Resilience Engineering Perspectives written by Erik Hollnagel and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preparation and Restoration addresses issues such as the nature of resilience; the similarities and differences between resilience and traditional ideas of system performance; how systems cope with varying demands and sometimes succeed and sometimes fail; how an organization's ways of preparing before critical events can enable or impede restoration; the trade-offs that are needed for systems to operate and survive; instances of brittle or resilient systems; how work practices affect resilience; the relationship between resilience and safety; and what improves or erodes resilience.