ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book provides resilience engineering as a step forward from traditional safety engineering techniques – such as those developed in risk analysis and probabilistic safety assessment. Rather than try to force adaptive processes and organisational factors into these families of measures and methods, resilience engineering recognises the need to study safety as a process, provide new measures, new ways to monitor systems, and new ways to intervene to improve safety. The book suggests that sufficient progress has been made on resilience as an alternative safety management paradigm to begin to deploy that knowledge in the form of engineering management techniques. Since the beginning of the 1990s there has been a growing evolution of the principles for organisational resilience and in the understanding of the factors that determine human and organisational performance.
