The CRC's scientific agenda is based on work carried out following the Second World War. This led to a very productive collaboration between teams of researchers and engineers who sought to develop key innovative technologies in the nuclear, aeronautical, aerospace and electronic sectors.
This extremely inventive group, that came to be known as the Dependability community, designed and developed qualitative and quantitative methods for risk analysis. In France, it is federated with the Institute for Risk Management and Dependability (IMdR-SdF), which, since 1978 has organised the Lambda Mu conference.
However, the acknowledgement, in the mid-1960s, of the complexity of socio-technical systems led to an expansion in the scope of research and led to the birth and the development of pluri- and interdisciplinary research that looked at the human and organisational dimensions of at-risk systems. This community brought together ergonomists, psychologists, legal experts, sociologists and managers, etc. and led to a very organic move by engineers to unite under the international banner of Safety Sciences.
The series of catastrophic events that stretches from Tchernobyl to Fukushima required the scientific community to re-examine the paradigms and the contribution of Safety Science. A new concept took hold, namely Resilience Engineering. The work carried out at CRC has played a significant role in the definition of the foundations, methods, and models of Resilience Engineering and some initial tools. This work has been led by the co-inventor of the concept, Professor Erik Hollnagel (holder of the MINES ParisTech Chair in Resilience Engineering, 2006-2013), helped by Eric Rigaud and Denis Besnard.
7 September 2015 Emergency engineering
17-10 September 2015 ESREL 2015
March 2016 Fukushima Dai Ichi, Volume 2
