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Normal Accidents

Paperback • 1999 • English

Normal Accidents

By Charles Perrow

7 Ratings • 4.7 of 5

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About the book

Normal Accidents analyzes the social side of technological risk. Charles Perrow argues that the conventional engineering approach to ensuring safety--building in more warnings and safeguards--fails because systems complexity makes failures inevitable. He asserts that typical precautions, by adding to complexity, may help create new categories of accidents. (At Chernobyl, tests of a new safety system helped produce the meltdown and subsequent fire.) By recognizing two dimensions of risk--complex ...Show more

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ISBN

9780691004129

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published year

1999

Language

English

Original title

Normal Accidents

Format

Paperback

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7 Ratings • 4.7 of 5

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