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Fact Sheets
Fact Sheets
What is Organisational Resilience and Resilience Engineering?
A resilient organisation is able to cope with and recover from the unexpected, and should maintain the ability to adapt to new demands. Organisational resilience is influenced by factors beyond the resilience of individuals, and is a property of the working environment. (By Jonathan Back).
What is Safety I and Safety II?
There is a sense of frustration with current approaches to safety (Safety I) and disappointment that more progress has not been made. Recent developments in safety science, termed Safety II, focus on resilience, adaptive capacity and complexity science and show promise for advancing the safety agenda. (By Janet Anderson).
What is Individual Resilience?
Whilst individuals may vary in the degree to which they possess resilience at any given time, studies seem to indicate that resilience can be developed or learnt. Training and coaching may help to develop individual resilience. (By Myanna Duncan).
Work In Progress: Modelling Organisational Resilience
Our current working model of organisational resilience in healthcare allows us to identify the key theoretical concepts that we are interested in and the relationships between them so that we can investigate them empirically. (By Janet Anderson).