Normal Accidents

Charles Perrow

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Author
Charles Perrow
Publish Date
1999-10-17
Subtitle
Living with High Risk Technologies - Updated Edition
Book Type
Paperback
Number of Pages
466
Publisher Name
Princeton University Press
ISBN-10
0691004129
ISBN-13
9780691004129
citemno
038612
SKU
9780691004129

Description

This text analyzes the social side of technological risk. It argues that the conventional engineering approach to ensuring safety fails because systems complexity makes failures inevitable. It provides a framework for analyzing risks and the complex systems which often engender them.