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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Perrow, Charles, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Normal Accidents : Living with High Risk Technologies - Updated Edition / Charles Perrow. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2011] ©2000 1 online resource (464 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- ABNORMAL BLESSINGS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1. Normal Accident at Three Mile Island -- CHAPTER 2. Nuclear Power as a High-Risk System: Why We Have Not Had More TMIs-But Will Soon -- CHAPTER 3. Complexity, Coupling, and Catastrophe -- CHAPTER 4. Petrochemical Plants -- CHAPTER 5. Aircraft and Airways -- CHAPTER 6. Marine Accidents -- CHAPTER 7. Earthbound Systems: Dams, Quakes, Mines, and Lakes -- CHAPTER 8. Exotics: Space, Weapons, and DNA -- CHAPTER 9. Living with High-Risk Systems -- AFTERWORD -- POSTSCRIPT: THE Y 2 K PROBLEM -- LIST OF ACRONYMS -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 to complexity, may help create new categories of accidents. (At Chernobyl, tests of a new safety system helped produce the meltdown and subsequent fire.) By recognizing two dimensions of risk--complex versus linear interactions, and tight versus loose coupling--this book provides a powerful framework for analyzing risks and the organizations that insist we run them. The first edition fulfilled one reviewer's prediction that it "may mark the beginning of accident research." In the new afterword to this edition Perrow reviews the extensive work on the major accidents of the last fifteen years, including Bhopal, Chernobyl, and the Challenger disaster. The new postscript probes what the author considers to be the "quintessential 'Normal Accident'" of our time: the Y2K computer problem. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Accidents. Industrial accidents. Technology Risk assessment. Technology & Engineering / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442502 print 9780691004129 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400828494?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400828494 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400828494.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- ABNORMAL BLESSINGS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1. Normal Accident at Three Mile Island -- CHAPTER 2. Nuclear Power as a High-Risk System: Why We Have Not Had More TMIs-But Will Soon -- CHAPTER 3. Complexity, Coupling, and Catastrophe -- CHAPTER 4. Petrochemical Plants -- CHAPTER 5. Aircraft and Airways -- CHAPTER 6. Marine Accidents -- CHAPTER 7. Earthbound Systems: Dams, Quakes, Mines, and Lakes -- CHAPTER 8. Exotics: Space, Weapons, and DNA -- CHAPTER 9. Living with High-Risk Systems -- AFTERWORD -- POSTSCRIPT: THE Y 2 K PROBLEM -- LIST OF ACRONYMS -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX |
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