Engineering Organizational Resilience to Enhance Safety: A Progress Report on the Emerging Field of Resilience Engineering

At the start of 2020, hospitals around the world were trying to adapt during the COVID-19 pandemic. From the resilience engineering perspective, this outbreak would be a significant test as healthcare institutions try to tolerate and manage this major disruption. This paper shares insights on what a stand-alone paediatric hospital in Singapore had done to stay ahead since the beginning of the outbreak. Observations were conducted from 25-Jan-20 to 25-Mar-20 to capture evidence of resilient behavior, notably in the form of improvisations. Findings revealed adaptations made across various organization levels: at the macrosystem to create capacity to isolate safely, at the mesosystem to facilitate teamwork, and at the microsystem to manage compromises at the frontlines. Juxtaposing this episode with other examples of organizational resilience, this paper maps out common resilience engineering themes in the hospital’s response to COVID-19, but also questions what defines an organization’s success in being resilient.

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Spectrophotometric measurements of objective-prism spectra

Symposium - International Astronomical Union ◽

10.1017/s007418090005333x ◽

1966 ◽

Vol 24 ◽

pp. 118-119

Author(s):

Th. Schmidt-Kaler

Keyword(s):

Progress Report ◽

Two Dimensional ◽

Objective Prism ◽

Made In

I should like to give you a very condensed progress report on some spectrophotometric measurements of objective-prism spectra made in collaboration with H. Leicher at Bonn. The procedure used is almost completely automatic. The measurements are made with the help of a semi-automatic fully digitized registering microphotometer constructed by Hög-Hamburg. The reductions are carried out with the aid of a number of interconnected programmes written for the computer IBM 7090, beginning with the output of the photometer in the form of punched cards and ending with the printing-out of the final two-dimensional classifications.

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Progress report on 21-cm observations at low latitude between longitudes (l 11) 0° and 66°

Symposium - International Astronomical Union ◽

10.1017/s0074180900100907 ◽

1967 ◽

Vol 31 ◽

pp. 177-179

Author(s):

W. W. Shane

Keyword(s):

Preliminary Report ◽

Progress Report ◽

Galactic Centre ◽

Low Latitude ◽

The Third ◽

Introductory Lecture ◽

Centre Region

In the course of several 21-cm observing programmes being carried out by the Leiden Observatory with the 25-meter telescope at Dwingeloo, a fairly complete, though inhomogeneous, survey of the regionl11= 0° to 66° at low galactic latitudes is becoming available. The essential data on this survey are presented in Table 1. Oort (1967) has given a preliminary report on the first and third investigations. The third is discussed briefly by Kerr in his introductory lecture on the galactic centre region (Paper 42). Burton (1966) has published provisional results of the fifth investigation, and I have discussed the sixth in Paper 19. All of the observations listed in the table have been completed, but we plan to extend investigation 3 to a much finer grid of positions.

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