Normal Accidents Perrow Charles
Normal Accidents Perrow Charles Normal Accidents analyzes the social side of technological risk. He asserts that typical precautions, by adding to complexity, may help create new categories of…
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Normal Accidents Perrow Charles
Normal Accidents analyzes the social side of technological risk. He asserts that typical precautions, by adding to complexity, may help create new categories of accidents. Charles Perrow argues that the conventional engineering approach to ensuring safety--building in more warnings and safeguards--fails because systems complexity makes failures inevitable.
In the new afterword to this edition Perrow reviews the extensive work on the major accidents of the (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.