By Tarcisio Saurin, Associate Professor, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul | saurin@ufrgs.br
As of January 2022, the International Ergonomics Association (IEA) has a new Technical Committee (TC) dedicated to Resilience Engineering (RE). In line with core human factors and ergonomics values, RE is systems-oriented and regards variability as an inevitable portion of everyday work, which is responsible for both desired and undesired outcomes. Therefore, the new TC acknowledges RE as a mainstream approach, which can benefit from and contribute to the broader human factors and ergonomics community. The main objectives of the TC are as follows:
- 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.
Main planned activities for 2022 – 2024:
- Annual course(s) on RE with lectures given by leading international scholars. The course(s) will be run in the distance learning format;
- Webinars, occasionally in collaboration with other scientific associations; and
- Special session/workshop at the 2024 IEA Triennial Conference in South Korea.
Examples of topics of interest
- Resilience engineering (RE) and safety management
- Safety-II
- Measurement of resilient performance
- RE, climate change, natural and man-made disasters
- Modelling of complex socio-technical systems
- Contribution of digital technologies and industry 4.0 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
- Management of trade-offs in socio-technical systems
- Cross-learning opportunities from RE in multiple sectors – e.g., healthcare, aviation, maritime, manufacturing, construction
Contact Tarcisio Saurin for more information or to join this Technical Committee
E-mail: saurin@ufrgs.br