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Normal Accidents: Living with High Risk Technologies - Updated Edition Updated edition
Charles Perrow
Normal Accidents: Living with High Risk Technologies - Updated Edition Updated edition
Charles Perrow
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.
386 pages
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | October 17, 1999 |
ISBN13 | 9780691004129 |
Publishers | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 464 |
Dimensions | 155 × 234 × 28 mm · 664 g |
Language | English |