Editorial

Resilience engineering is emerging as new concept based on the edited work by Hollnagel (2006). The initial concept was more towards human errors and machine failures, and safety critical systems involving humans. Recently, resilience has been refers to the art of managing unexpected, or how a team or organizations becomes prepare to cope with surprises. These surprising events can sometimes pushed the system beyond its operational boundaries (Woods, 2006). Therefore, the purpose of resilience engineering is to anticipate the changing potential for failure considering that plans and procedures have limits, gaps and there are unforeseen errors and the environment is very dynamic.