ABSTRACT
Sidney Dekker’s chapter in Resilience Engineering: Concepts and Precepts (Dekker, 2006) strove to capture the ideas that emerged during the first resilience engineering symposium held in Söderköping, Sweden in October, 2004. The notion of resilience as an aspect of systems appeared to resonate among the fourteen senior researchers who participated. Their discussion centered on the need to:
• Get smarter at reporting the next [adverse] event, helping organizations to better manage the processes by which they decide to control risk
• Detect drift into failure before breakdown occurs. Large system accidents have revealed that what is considered to be normal is highly negotiable. There is no operational model of drift.
