With increased popularity of structural glass applications, questions about structural safety and risk associated with such applications to the general public shall be examined in detail. Often these types of applications are used in public or semi-public spaces thus they receive increased attention and the consequences of failure or underperformance are crucial. Further, a comprehensive, standardised methodology of designing glass structurally is still lacking. In this paper we will review resilient con-cepts currently adopted by engineers designing with structural glass to ensure that structural reliability and robustness criteria are met. This is especially challenging, since a well-established probabilistic basis, that is (at least partly) available for traditional construction materials, has not yet been devel-oped for structural glass. To ensure the consideration of a system and life-cycle perspective, opera-tional objectives, damage sensitivity and damage tolerance for possible load exposures during the design lifetime will be outlined.