Normal Accidents

Living with High Risk Technologies - Updated Edition

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E-book, 464 blz. Epub met adobe beveiliging | Engels
Princeton University Press | 1e druk, 2011
ISBN13: 9781400828494
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Hoofdrubriek : Wetenschap en techniek
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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 versus linear interactions, and tight versus loose coupling-this book provides a powerful framework for analyzing risks and the organizations that insist we run them. The first edition fulfilled one reviewer's prediction that it 'may mark the beginning of accident research'.

In the new afterword to this edition Perrow reviews the extensive work on the major accidents of the last fifteen years, including Bhopal, Chernobyl, and the Challenger disaster. The new postscript probes what the author considers to be the 'quintessential 'Normal Accident' of our time: the Y2K computer problem.

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ISBN13:9781400828494
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:e-book
Beveiliging:adobe
Bestandsformaat:epub
Aantal pagina's:464
Druk:1
Verschijningsdatum:12-10-2011

Over Charles Perrow

Charles Perrow is professor emeritus of sociology at Yale University and visiting professor at Stanford University. His interests include the development of bureaucracy in the 19th century, protecting the nation's critical infrastructure, the prospects for democratic work organizations, and the origins of American capitalism.

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