Normal Accidents: Living With High Risk Technologies - Updated Edition

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.

• | By (Author): Charles Perrow
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• | Publisher: Princeton University Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 17, 1999
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 464 pages
• | Language: Not available
• | Binding: Paperback|Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0007233485
• | ISBN-13: 9780691004129