Current Issue:
Call For Papers: Joint 11th Biennial Resilience Engineering Association (REA) Symposium and the 14th Annual Resilient HealthCare Society (RHCS) Meeting
REA Newsletter, October 2024
- Joint 11th biannual REA Symposium and 14th annual Resilient Health Care Society Meeting, 20-24 October, 2025
- REA is on LinkedIn!
- Resilience Engineering Fundamentals: A video series with David Woods
- Workshop alert, David Alderson, John Allspaw, David Woods, and Lorin Hochstein, plus Zoran Perkov
- Prepare to Be Unprepared: Investing in Capacity to Adapt to Surprises in Software-Reliant Businesses, by John Allspaw
- REA YT goes to Asia!
- Acknowledging Gesa Praetorius
- Upcoming Events
Previous Issues:
REA Newsletter – Issue 15, Dec 2023
Exciting updates are in store for the Resilience Engineering Association Community! Get ready for a series of new webinars focused on Resilience, and a website gearing up for some fresh and enriched user experience. Additionally, we’re thrilled to announce the launch of a Resilience Engineering Magazine series (more to come in 2024), and our LinkedIn group, which is now open to all! Don’t forget to follow for updates!In this last newsletter for the year, you will find:
Find the collection of all newsletters (2019-2023) here:
To cite: David, L.Z., Herrera, I., & Lay, E. (2023). Resilience Engineering Association: A collection of Newsletters. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8087505
See what awaits in our special issue “Learning Systems in Aviation and Beyond”. An issue dedicated to aviation, with guest editor James Norman.
Contents:
- Message from the Guest Editor – James Norman
- Can We Continue to Climb the Mountain in Ballerina Shoes? Understanding Normalization of Adaptation in Aviation – Gitte Furdal Damm
- Are Black Swan Events Trainable? – Endre Berntzen
- Are We Learning All We Need for Resilient Performance? – Laura Maguire
- Two Views on Procedures – Tom Laursen
- A Multi-Domain View of System Management – James Burnell and Joji Waites
- Risk is Not as Simple as You Might Think – Ivan Pupulidy
- From Assessing to Enabling – Ron Gantt
- Organizational Learning Through Systems Theory – Shem Malmquist
- On the Logical Interdependency in Infrastructures: An Institutional Perspective – David J. Yu, Hoon C. Shin, and Jeryang Park
- Resilient Organizational Learning Through Action Research – Torgeir Kolstø Haavik
- Developing Resilience in Commercial Aviation Pilots via Training Data-Driven Insights – Richard J Kennedy, Andrew CK Lim and David Owens
- Four Steps Towards Implementing Resilient Learning Systems in Aviation – Kristy Kiernan and Dave Cross
- Learning What Goes Well and Why at American Airlines – Nicholas Peterson
- Resilience and Psychological Safety: The Language of Learning – Leja Collier
REA Newsletter – Issue 13, Dec 2022
This newsletter issue is a special tribute to the life and work of Richard I. Cook, as part of an initiative within the Resilience Engineering Association to honour Richard and the invaluable role he played in the foundation and progression of the field of Resilience Engineering. The issue includes a collection of memories and research from colleagues and friends of Richard’s. A special thank you to everyone who contributed to creating this tribute issue, and who shared with us and the REA community precious stories and memories.
- Always be helpful, cooperate, and never do SWAG – Emily S. Patterson, Ph.D.
- Richard Cook’s love for Tawain – Sheuwen Chuang, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
- The Radical – By Christopher Nemeth
- Avoiding human error in the hospital: Mission possible?– Yoel Donchin
- Cognitive artefacts as a window to ordinary work – Yuval Bitan, Ph.D.
- The Career, Accomplishments and Impact of Richard I. Cook: A Life in Many Acts – David Woods, John Allspaw, Michael O’Connor
- Updates on 10th Symposium on Resilience Engineering: Deadline Extension & more information on symposium
- What else will be happening at the 10th REA Symposium
REA Newsletter – Issue 12, Sep 2022
This issue discusses the role and support that Resilience Engineering can offer to organisations and frontline teams. Guest editor David Provan argues on the key milestones toward resilient organisations, and contributions from other pioneers in the field of RE explore processes to increase adoption of RE in healthcare, means to support frontline workers, and the hallmarks of practising High Reliability Organising.
- Lessons from Addressing Organisational Resilience | David Provan
- Increasing the adoption of resilience engineering in healthcare – Overcoming practical and systems challenges | prof. Janet Anderson & Dr. Satyan Chari
- Supporting frontline worker resilience during storm response | Elizabeth Lay
- High Reliability Organising is about how you handle possibilities | Laurin Mooney
- The Career, Accomplishments and Impact of Richard I. Cook: A Life in Many Acts
- Book corner: Resilience in a Digital Age
- 10th Symposium on Resilience Engineering
- Young Talents in Resilience Engineering | Lida David & Elleke Ketelaars
- Upcoming Events
REA Newsletter – Issue 11, Feb 2022
This newsletter issue sets out to explore the concept of compounding disasters: concurrent events or cascading strenuous incidents that call for prolonged resilience; all of which are becoming increasingly prevalent in our social, business, and political systems. Through a series of short articles, we aim to provoke discussions and debates on the challenges brought about by these compounding events, and foster conversation on the solutions that can stem from a Resilience Engineering perspective, by introspecting on what happened, while anticipating what the future will bring.
- Unique challenges of recent compounding disasters and the role of resilience engineering | Changwon Son
- Nurses’ utilization and extension of adaptive capacity in sustaining hospital care during the Covid-19 pandemic | Dana Womack & Christine Jefferies
- Resilience Engineering research activities in South Korea | Dong-Han Ham
- Outmaneuvering complexity in worlds of surprise | Recording by David Woods
- Want to better understand resilience? Study homeostasis! | Gil Regev
- Resilience Engineering now has a Technical Committee at the International Ergonomics Association (IEA) | Tarcisio Saurin
- Resilience Engineering in numbers: data from the 2021 symposium | Francesco Simone and Antonio J. Nakhal
- Final balance on REA-NDM-ICSI-FONCSI 2021 | Perdo Ferreira
- A recap on 10 REA newsletters: Looking back and moving forward | Lida Z. David
- Book Corner | A Book Mistitled: A Review of Ten Patterns That Explain The Universe by Brian Clegg | Review by E. Asher Balkin & Dane Morey
- Upcoming events
REA Newsletter – Issue 10, Nov 2021
Even though we all are still facing Covid-19, the Resilience Engineering Association (REA) continued its legacy bringing a joint initiative Bouncing forward on global crises and challenges based on Resilience Engineering (RE) and Naturalistic Decision Making (NDM) communities. The “15th Conference on Naturalistic Decision Making” and “9th Symposium on Resilience Engineering” ran from June 21 to June 24, 2021, in Toulouse. This event was partially presential and transmitted online for those who could not attend in person for the first time. This event was attended by 372 participants from 31 different countries (Distribution in Figure 1).
- Tarcísio Saurin (Diversity of perspective: Resilient healthcare and NDM)
- Jan Maarten Schraagen (COVID-19 as a stress test for NDM and RE)
- Pedro Ferreira (Implementing resilience engineering and safety II thinking into Organizations)
- Amanda Hellström (Societal resilience today and the steps needed to move forward)
- Gary Klein (Facets of Curiosity)
- Elleke Ketelaars and Sahinya Susinda (Emergent talents – summary of the workshop)
REA Newsletter – Issue 9, Jun 2021
- Update on the REA-NDM-FONCSI Symposium
- Societal-scale resilience
- Interaction between citizens and emergency organisations: a key to improving societal resilience
- Dealing with disasters: What should society do?
- Multi-directional communication between authorities, first responders and the public during adversities – do they have similar needs and perceptions?
- Coping strategies of citizens during disaster
- Acts of resilience? Spontaneous volunteering during the Utøya terror attack 22.07.2011 – preliminary findings
- Upcoming events
REA Newsletter – Issue 8, Jan 2021
- Concept corner – slack: a key enabler of resilient performance
- RE in practice
- Providing evidence for RE interventions: the RESPOND study
- How to engineer resilience in anesthesia: stories from the ward
- Resilience in emergency management at an operational level: A joint research project with OFFB
- 2020 Challenges and Future Collaboration at Qantas
- Air Traffic Management (ATM) resilience response during COVID 19
- Action item: ban all vacations (just kidding!)
- Updates on NDM/REA collaboration
- News in the RE world
- Book Corner: Working Minds – A practitioners’ guide to cognitive task analysis
REA Newsletter – Issue 7, Oct 2020
REA Newsletter – Issue 6, Sep 2020
REA Newsletter – Issue 5, Jun 2020
REA Newsletter – Issue 4, Apr 2020
REA Newsletter – Issue 3, Feb 2020
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Previous Issues:
REA Newsletter – Issue 14, March 2023
See what awaits in our special issue “Learning Systems in Aviation and Beyond”. An issue dedicated to aviation, with guest editor James Norman.
REA Newsletter – Issue 13, Dec 2022
This newsletter issue is a special tribute to the life and work of Richard I. Cook, as part of an initiative within the Resilience Engineering Association to honour Richard and the invaluable role he played in the foundation and progression of the field of Resilience Engineering. The issue includes a collection of memories and research from colleagues and friends of Richard’s. A special thank you to everyone who contributed to creating this tribute issue, and who shared with us and the REA community precious stories and memories.
- Always be helpful, cooperate, and never do SWAG – Emily S. Patterson, Ph.D.
- Richard Cook’s love for Tawain – Sheuwen Chuang, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
- The Radical – By Christopher Nemeth
- Avoiding human error in the hospital: Mission possible?– Yoel Donchin
- Cognitive artefacts as a window to ordinary work – Yuval Bitan, Ph.D.
- The Career, Accomplishments and Impact of Richard I. Cook: A Life in Many Acts – David Woods, John Allspaw, Michael O’Connor
- Updates on 10th Symposium on Resilience Engineering: Deadline Extension & more information on symposium
- What else will be happening at the 10th REA Symposium
REA Newsletter – Issue 12, Sep 2022
This issue discusses the role and support that Resilience Engineering can offer to organisations and frontline teams. Guest editor David Provan argues on the key milestones toward resilient organisations, and contributions from other pioneers in the field of RE explore processes to increase adoption of RE in healthcare, means to support frontline workers, and the hallmarks of practising High Reliability Organising.
- Lessons from Addressing Organisational Resilience | David Provan
- Increasing the adoption of resilience engineering in healthcare – Overcoming practical and systems challenges | prof. Janet Anderson & Dr. Satyan Chari
- Supporting frontline worker resilience during storm response | Elizabeth Lay
- High Reliability Organising is about how you handle possibilities | Laurin Mooney
- The Career, Accomplishments and Impact of Richard I. Cook: A Life in Many Acts
- Book corner: Resilience in a Digital Age
- 10th Symposium on Resilience Engineering
- Young Talents in Resilience Engineering | Lida David & Elleke Ketelaars
- Upcoming Events
REA Newsletter – Issue 11, Feb 2022
This newsletter issue sets out to explore the concept of compounding disasters: concurrent events or cascading strenuous incidents that call for prolonged resilience; all of which are becoming increasingly prevalent in our social, business, and political systems. Through a series of short articles, we aim to provoke discussions and debates on the challenges brought about by these compounding events, and foster conversation on the solutions that can stem from a Resilience Engineering perspective, by introspecting on what happened, while anticipating what the future will bring.
- Unique challenges of recent compounding disasters and the role of resilience engineering | Changwon Son
- Nurses’ utilization and extension of adaptive capacity in sustaining hospital care during the Covid-19 pandemic | Dana Womack & Christine Jefferies
- Resilience Engineering research activities in South Korea | Dong-Han Ham
- Outmaneuvering complexity in worlds of surprise | Recording by David Woods
- Want to better understand resilience? Study homeostasis! | Gil Regev
- Resilience Engineering now has a Technical Committee at the International Ergonomics Association (IEA) | Tarcisio Saurin
- Resilience Engineering in numbers: data from the 2021 symposium | Francesco Simone and Antonio J. Nakhal
- Final balance on REA-NDM-ICSI-FONCSI 2021 | Perdo Ferreira
- A recap on 10 REA newsletters: Looking back and moving forward | Lida Z. David
- Book Corner | A Book Mistitled: A Review of Ten Patterns That Explain The Universe by Brian Clegg | Review by E. Asher Balkin & Dane Morey
- Upcoming events
REA Newsletter – Issue 10, Nov 2021
Even though we all are still facing Covid-19, the Resilience Engineering Association (REA) continued its legacy bringing a joint initiative Bouncing forward on global crises and challenges based on Resilience Engineering (RE) and Naturalistic Decision Making (NDM) communities. The “15th Conference on Naturalistic Decision Making” and “9th Symposium on Resilience Engineering” ran from June 21 to June 24, 2021, in Toulouse. This event was partially presential and transmitted online for those who could not attend in person for the first time. This event was attended by 372 participants from 31 different countries (Distribution in Figure 1).
- Tarcísio Saurin (Diversity of perspective: Resilient healthcare and NDM)
- Jan Maarten Schraagen (COVID-19 as a stress test for NDM and RE)
- Pedro Ferreira (Implementing resilience engineering and safety II thinking into Organizations)
- Amanda Hellström (Societal resilience today and the steps needed to move forward)
- Gary Klein (Facets of Curiosity)
- Elleke Ketelaars and Sahinya Susinda (Emergent talents – summary of the workshop)
REA Newsletter – Issue 9, Jun 2021
- Update on the REA-NDM-FONCSI Symposium
- Societal-scale resilience
- Interaction between citizens and emergency organisations: a key to improving societal resilience
- Dealing with disasters: What should society do?
- Multi-directional communication between authorities, first responders and the public during adversities – do they have similar needs and perceptions?
- Coping strategies of citizens during disaster
- Acts of resilience? Spontaneous volunteering during the Utøya terror attack 22.07.2011 – preliminary findings
- Upcoming events
REA Newsletter – Issue 8, Jan 2021
- Concept corner – slack: a key enabler of resilient performance
- RE in practice
- Providing evidence for RE interventions: the RESPOND study
- How to engineer resilience in anesthesia: stories from the ward
- Resilience in emergency management at an operational level: A joint research project with OFFB
- 2020 Challenges and Future Collaboration at Qantas
- Air Traffic Management (ATM) resilience response during COVID 19
- Action item: ban all vacations (just kidding!)
- Updates on NDM/REA collaboration
- News in the RE world
- Book Corner: Working Minds – A practitioners’ guide to cognitive task analysis
REA Newsletter – Issue 7, Oct 2020
REA Newsletter – Issue 6, Sep 2020
REA Newsletter – Issue 5, Jun 2020
REA Newsletter – Issue 4, Apr 2020
REA Newsletter – Issue 3, Feb 2020