Normal Accidents

Living with High Risk Technologies - Updated Edition

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Charles Perrow

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This text analyzes the social side of technological risk. It argues that the conventional engineering approach to ensuring safety, building more warnings and safeguards, fails because systems complexity makes failures inevitable. The author asserts that typical precautions, by adding to complexity, may help create new categories of accidents. By recognizing two dimensions of risk, complex versus linear interactions and tight versus loose coupling, the book provides a framework for analyzing risks and the organizations that insist on they are run.

Author Biography:

Charles Perrow is Professor of Sociology at Yale University. His other books include The Radical Attack on Business, Organizational Analysis: A Sociological View, Complex Organizations: A Critical Essay, and The AIDS Disaster: The Failure of Organizations in New York and the Nation.

Release date NZ

October 17th, 1999

Author

Charles Perrow

Audiences

General (US: Trade)
Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Edition

Revised edition

Pages

464

Dimensions

152x229x30

ISBN-13

9780691004129

Product ID

2405412

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