Article: Resilience of complex systems in modern contexts: sense-making of deviations and enabling the human for mitigating unwanted events and incidents Journal: International Journal of Decision Sciences, Risk and Management (IJDSRM) 2023 Vol.11 No.1/2/3/4 pp.111 - 139 Abstract: Over the last few decades, the scale and nature of industrial transformations have been quite substantial generating new solutions with inherent technical, operational, and organisational complexities. Modern industrial systems in both public and private sectors are engineered and operated under demanding conditions where faults, failures, and malfunctions represent a relatively higher degree of risk in terms of safety, security, environmental impact, and economy. In such new emerging contexts, the understanding of inherent abnormalities, ability to identify early-deviations, advancing situation awareness, and taking precautionary measures much earlier are critical for mitigating inherent potentials for unwanted events and incidents and thus ensuring resilience of complex industrial systems. This paper explores and elaborates on these aspects further in detail based on an ongoing research project. Subsequently, analysis of two major industrial accidents is performed to understand the patterns of deviations and lost opportunities from the perspectives of accident prevention and impact mitigation. Inderscience Publishers - linking academia, business and industry through research

Title: Resilience of complex systems in modern contexts: sense-making of deviations and enabling the human for mitigating unwanted events and incidents

Authors: Mohammad Bakhshandeh; Jayantha P. Liyanage

Addresses: Department of Mechanical and Structural Engineering and Materials Science, University of Stavanger, MailBox 8600, 4036 Stavanger, Norway ' Department of Mechanical and Structural Engineering and Materials Science, University of Stavanger, MailBox 8600, 4036 Stavanger, Norway

Abstract: Over the last few decades, the scale and nature of industrial transformations have been quite substantial generating new solutions with inherent technical, operational, and organisational complexities. Modern industrial systems in both public and private sectors are engineered and operated under demanding conditions where faults, failures, and malfunctions represent a relatively higher degree of risk in terms of safety, security, environmental impact, and economy. In such new emerging contexts, the understanding of inherent abnormalities, ability to identify early-deviations, advancing situation awareness, and taking precautionary measures much earlier are critical for mitigating inherent potentials for unwanted events and incidents and thus ensuring resilience of complex industrial systems. This paper explores and elaborates on these aspects further in detail based on an ongoing research project. Subsequently, analysis of two major industrial accidents is performed to understand the patterns of deviations and lost opportunities from the perspectives of accident prevention and impact mitigation.

Keywords: complex systems; industrial assets; digitalisation; deviations; major accidents; advanced situation awareness; resilience; enabling human operators.

DOI: 10.1504/IJDSRM.2023.142152

International Journal of Decision Sciences, Risk and Management, 2023 Vol.11 No.1/2/3/4, pp.111 - 139

Received: 17 Aug 2023
Accepted: 21 Mar 2024
Published online: 10 Oct 2024 *

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