Normal Accidents
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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
- ISBN10
- 0691004129
- ISBN13
- 9780691004129
- Category
- Social sciences, Textbooks, University and college textbooks
- 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.