Resilience Engineering Association

Resilience Engineering Association is a Swedish professional organization dedicated to advancing safety through resilience engineering, a methodology that prioritizes organizational adaptability over traditional error tabulation and failure probability calculations. Founded in 2013, it fosters a global community of practitioners who develop robust yet flexible processes to manage disruptions across complex systems.

• Purpose: To cultivate a collegial community of users committed to sharing experiences and learning through summer schools, industry partnerships, conferences, workshops, books, and papers.
• Approach: To promote a shared understanding by facilitating debates, discussing diverse application examples, and encouraging point-and-counterpoint dialogues regarding the meaning of resilience engineering.
• Identity: To establish a sense of unity among practitioners, creating a confederation of industrial partnerships that allows members to speak with a common voice in professional settings.

The association focuses on helping individuals and organizations anticipate changing risk shapes before damage occurs rather than relying solely on hindsight-based management strategies.