Pocket • 1999 • Engelsk

Normal Accidents

Name: Normal Accidents
SKU: 9780691004129
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ISBN: 9780691004129

Av Charles Perrow

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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 ...Vis mer

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9780691004129

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Princeton University Press

Publiseringsår

1999

Språk

Engelsk

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Normal Accidents

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Pocket

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