Normal Accidents : : Living with High Risk Technologies - Updated Edition / / Charles Perrow.
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 t...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011] ©2000 |
Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (464 p.) |
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