Resilience engineering: Fancy talk for safety culture: A Nordic perspective on resilience engineering

Safety culture is an umbrella term covering related fields, such as human factor analysis, human reliability analysis, and human performance tools. As a whole, the goal is to increase the utilities´ ability to handle anticipated as well as unexpected events. Recently, resilience engineering - with much the same goals - has gained popularity in the nuclear industry. In this paper we explore the similarities between safety culture and resilience engineering.