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Habibi E, Saber E, Barakat S. Enhancing Resilience Engineering through Reliability Optimization: An Approach to Systems Protection and Upgrade (Narrative Review). J Occup Health Epidemiol 2025; 14 (4) :295-302
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Received: 2024/10/31
Accepted: 2025/05/22
ePublished: 2025/12/13
Accepted: 2025/05/22
ePublished: 2025/12/13
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Occupational Health
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Background: The concepts of resilience to accidents and disasters, as well as increasing reliability, have become increasingly important due to the uncertainties surrounding events and risks that organizations face. Achieving a balance between reliability and resilience is one of the most important goals for successful organizations and serves as a critical element in ensuring the safety of employees and equipment.
Materials and Methods: In this research, we used several databases, including ISI Web of Science, Scopus, MEDLINE (via PubMed), ScienceDirect, and Google Scholar. The keywords searched for the article were “resilience,” “reliability,” and “incidents and events.”
Results: Resilience engineering (RE) in organizations plays a critical role in enabling safe employee performance. Furthermore, by promoting a favorable approach that increases productivity, availability is also increased, the risk of incidents is reduced, and, consequently, reliability in the organization increases as positive outcomes become widespread.
Conclusion: This review provides valuable information on the increasing availability, evolution, and the barriers and challenges affecting resilience and reliability, and offers high-level insights for future research.
Materials and Methods: In this research, we used several databases, including ISI Web of Science, Scopus, MEDLINE (via PubMed), ScienceDirect, and Google Scholar. The keywords searched for the article were “resilience,” “reliability,” and “incidents and events.”
Results: Resilience engineering (RE) in organizations plays a critical role in enabling safe employee performance. Furthermore, by promoting a favorable approach that increases productivity, availability is also increased, the risk of incidents is reduced, and, consequently, reliability in the organization increases as positive outcomes become widespread.
Conclusion: This review provides valuable information on the increasing availability, evolution, and the barriers and challenges affecting resilience and reliability, and offers high-level insights for future research.
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