Normal Accidents

Charles Perrow

Princeton University Press, 1999

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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.

ISBN-13
9780691004129
ISBN-10
0691004129
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
1999
Publication date
1999-10-17
Pages
464
Dimensions
234x155x28
Weight
674