haveriförmåga

Haveriförmåga (from haveri, "accident" or "failure," and förmåga, "ability") denotes the capacity of a system, organization, or process to prevent, absorb, recover from, or continue functioning despite failures or accidents. The term is used in Swedish risk management and safety disciplines to describe resilience and fault tolerance rather than perfect failure avoidance.

In engineering and technical contexts, haveriförmåga includes redundancy, robust design, monitoring, fault detection, safe shutdown capabilities, and recovery procedures. In transportation, energy, and industrial settings it refers to the ability to maintain critical operations and rapidly restore service after disruption.

Assessment often uses indicators such as redundancy levels, mean time between failures (MTBF), recovery time objectives (RTO), recovery point objectives (RPO), safety margins, incident response capability, and business continuity planning. Methods include reliability engineering, risk analysis, maintenance planning, simulations, drills, and post-incident learning.

Note on usage: The term is primarily used in Swedish-language risk and safety discourse; translations to English vary by context and may refer to fault tolerance, resilience, or disaster recovery depending on the situation.