Drift into Failure: From Hunting Broken Components to Understanding Complex Systems

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The complexity of failure: Implications of complexity theory for safety investigations (2011, background): “What you have at stake here is the credibility of this agency and the credibility of the government to run an investigation'' (Dekker, 2011).”
A systematic literature review of resilience engineering: Research areas and a research agenda proposal (2015, background): “The need for recognizing and supporting second victims in accident investigations is emphasized by Dekker [128].”
The bureaucratization of safety (2014, background): “The Macondo (or Deepwater Horizon) well-blowout shows that while measurable safety successes were celebrated, the organization’s coherent understanding of engineering risk across a complex network of contractors had apparently eroded (Dekker, 2011; Graham et al., 2011).”