New trends for risk and safety management in the aviation domain: a resilience engineering perspective

The development of the scientific study of safety and risk follows three separate “age”, evolving from a technology-centered interventional perspective, to human reliability-oriented approaches, and lastly acknowledging systems’ complexity and underlying socio-technical factors. This paper briefly captures the evolution of safety management from Newtonian work-based linear reasoning towards greater socio-technical approaches, with a specific focus on the emerging field of Resilience Engineering. An overview of two potential techniques that can adequately account for dynamic adaptive behaviors (the Functional Resonance Analysis Method, FRAM) and socio-technical perspectives (the Resilience Analysis Grid, RAG) is presented, discussing potential benefits for current and future aviation domain.