Table 1.
Presentation of findings.
| Authors/Year | Article type/research methods | Central Topic | Unit of Analysis | Context of Resilience | Conceptualization of Resilience | Relation between Resilience and Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albrechtsen (2015) | Conceptual | Resilience-based approaches as supplement to formal management approaches. The need for more research on how to change formal systems. | System and individual | Production andIntegrated Operations | Resilience capabilities | Resilience promoting safety |
| Andersen and Mostue, 2012 | EmpiricalMixed | Changes towards integrated operations bring implications for risk analysis. Resilience-based approaches as supplement to formal management approaches. | Not identified | Production andIntegrated operations | Resilience as a process and capabilities | Resilience promoting safety |
| Azadeh et al. (2016) | EmpiricalQuantitative | Resilience engineering.Human and equipment redundancy as improving systems efficiency. | System | Petrochemical plant | Resilience as an outcome | Resilience promoting safety |
| Azadeh & Salehi (2014) | EmpiricalQuantitative | Reducing the gap between work as imagined by managers and work as actually done by operators strengthens system resilience. Resilience engineering. | System | Petrochemical plant | Resilience as an outcome | Resilience promoting safety |
| Bento and Garotti (2019) | Conceptual | A network analytic approach to resilience challenges brought changes in workplace demographics. | System | Production andIntegrated operations | Resilience capabilities | Not about safety |
| Carlson (2018) | EmpiricalQualitative | Renewal discourse in post-crisis communication and emphasis on preparedness facilitates dialogues about interdependencies among stakeholders. | System | Oil Spill Recovery | Resilience capabilities | Not about safety |
| Gomes et al. 2009 | EmpiricalQualitative | Resilience as an emergent property related to variability at different levels. It investigates how the transport system is resilient and given the workload demands of and economic pressures to helicopter pilots. | System and individual | Transportation system | Resilience as an outcome | Resilience promoting safety |
| Grabowski and Roberts, 2016 | Conceptual | The challenges that reliability-seeking virtual organizations (RSVOs) pose for high reliability and resilient organizations. Fluidity in organizational structures as characteristic of reliable organizations. | System | Production andIntegrated Operations | Resilience as an outcome | Factors facilitating resilience and safety |
| Hansson et al., 2009 | EmpiricalQualitative | The authors describe an intervention based on a model of resilience used to reduce occupational injuries. They describe several activities influencing anticipation, attention and response. Resilience engineering. | System | Production andDrilling | Resilience as a process and capabilities | Resilience promoting safety |
| Johnsen (2012) | EmpiricalQualitative | Action research aiming at influencing knowledge of safety guidelines among different stakeholders may have improved system resilience by increasing focus, awareness, network segregation, disturbance planning and reporting. | System | Production | Resilience capabilities | Factors facilitating resilience and safety |
| Johnsen, 2012 | EmpiricalQualitative | Focus on human factors in design processes impacts work conditions for human operators, and thereby safety and resilience. The need for non-technical skills such as communication and decision-making. | System | Production | Resilience capabilities | Factors facilitating resilience and safety |
| Ndubisi and Al-Shuridah (2019) | EmpiricalQuantitative | Commitment to resilience at the individual level as a dimension of mindfulness at the organizational level. | System and individual | Environmental and resource sustainability | Resilience capabilities | Not about safety |
| Rabbani et al. (2019) | EmpiricalQuantitative | Presents an algorithm for performance evaluation of resilience engineering. Resilience engineering improving safety. Identifies self-organization, teamwork and awareness as the most effective resilience engineering factors. | System | Petrochemical plant | Resilience as an outcome | Resilience promoting safety |
| Reknes et al., 2018 | EmpiricalQuantitative | Stress resilience at the individual level. Focus on individual hardiness in mediating the bullying-anxiety relationship. | Individual (mental health) | Not defined | Resilience as an outcome | Not about safety |
| Shirali, Shekari & Angali (2018) | EmpiricalQuantitative | An evaluation of reliability and validity of instruments in measuring Resilience Safety Culture (RSC) in sociotechnical systems. Resilience engineering. | System and individual | Petrochemical plant | Resilience as an outcome | Resilience promoting safety |
| Skjerve et al. (2012) | EmpiricalQualitative | It investigates the potential of a coaching approach in promoting reflection about resilient collaboration. | System and individual | Production | Resilience capabilities | Resilience promoting safety |
| Thorogood (2013) | Conceptual | Resilience as a characteristic of high reliability organizations (HRO). It provides actionable steps to the cultivation of resilience. | System | Drilling | Resilience capabilities | Resilience promoting safety |
| Thorogood and Crichton (2014) | Conceptual | Resilience as a characteristic of HRO. | System | Drilling | Resilience capabilities | Resilience promoting safety |
| Tveiten et al. (2012) | EmpiricalQualitative | The need to be more proactive in emergence management and the possibilities enabled by integrated operations. It suggests principles for resilience emergency management principles: monitoring, anticipation, responding and learning. | System | Production | Resilience as a process and capabilities | Resilience promoting safety |
| Yang (2019) | Conceptual | Resilience engineering ensures the design of complex systems that can stand adverse conditions and recover from disruptions. Three dimensions of resilience in HSE regulation: flexibility; fully communication and cooperation reducing potential conflicts of stakeholders, and; consensus and mutual trust. | System | Production andDrilling | Resilience as an outcome | Resilience promoting safety |