Embedding an engineering mindest

摘要

The Royal Academy of Engineering recently published a report, Critical capabilities: Strengthening UK resilience, which recommends steps the government should take to make the UK more resilient to new pandemics or other emergencies. One of the main recommendations is that it should embed an engineer's 'systems' approach in emergency planning and preparedness with the help of both public and private organisations. But the report also calls for all organisations across the public, private and third sector to reach out and make connections beyond their immediate and familiar communities-to review and perhaps reassess where their interdependencies lie within the wider system, and how vulnerabilities can be reduced and resilience strengthened.