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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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Normal Accidents, Charles Perrow
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- Released
- 1999
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- Title
- Normal Accidents
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Charles Perrow
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Released
- 1999
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 462
- ISBN10
- 0691004129
- ISBN13
- 9780691004129
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, Art & Culture, Historical Themes, Technology & Engineering, History, Science, Design, Sociology, Technology, Engineering
- Original title
- Normal accidents
- Rating
- 4.05 out of 5
- Description
- 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.