Normal Accidents: Living with High Risk Technologies (Princeton Paperbacks)

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  • Author : Charles Perrow
  • Binding : Paperback
  • EAN : 9780691004129
  • Edition : New Ed
  • ISBN : 0691004129
  • Is Eligible For Trade In? : Yes
  • Label : Princeton University Press
  • Languages : Original Language: English, Published: English
  • Manufacturer : Princeton University Press
  • Number Of Items : 1
  • Number Of Pages : 386
  • Package Dimensions : 1.30 inches (Height) x 9.00 inches (Length) x 1.45 pounds (Weight) x 5.90 inches (Width)
  • Product Group : Book
  • Publication Date : 1999-09-27
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • SKU : 0691004129
  • Studio : Princeton University Press

Analyzes the social side of technological risk. This book argues that the conventional engineering approach to ensuring safety - building in more warnings and safeguards - fails because systems complexity makes failures inevitable. It asserts that typical precautions, by adding to complexity, may help create new categories of accidents.

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