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macro-micro connection is a crucial issue for understanding how an
organization gradually can erode safety

1.5.4. Engineering Organizational Resilience

While being able to ―measure‖ the resilience of an organization using new
kinds of leading metrics may be one way forward on creating progress on
safety, this is not enough. In fact, it is too static: this research project intends to
address the need to become more instrumental. This is important with respect
to the need to not only be able to talk about safety issues in a different
language, but also to do something. Engineering resilience implies not only the
knowledge of but also some type of control over the relevant parameters.
With engineering of resilience, intervention becomes possible. The aim in
this part is to identify critical leverage points for the actual ―engineering‖ of
resilience into organizational processes. Leverage points will be sought in
operational, managerial and political spheres, with the aim of identifying,
studying, refining and extending the kinds of instruments that various
stakeholders in industries can use to steer the direction of safety- critical
operations

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