Normal Accidents Living with High Risk Technologies - Updated Edition

Name: Normal Accidents Living with High Risk Technologies - Updated Edition
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ISBN: 9780691004129

ISBN-10: 0691004129

ISBN-13: 9780691004129

Edition: 2000 (Revised)

Authors: Charles Perrow

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Normal Accidentsanalyzes the social side of technological risk. Charles Perrow argues that the conventional engineering approach to ensuring safety--building in more warnings and safeguards--fails because systems complexity makes failures inevitable. He asserts that typical precautions, by adding to complexity, may help create new categories of accidents. (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…

Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 10/17/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 1.08" tall
Weight: 1.650
Language: English

Charles Perrow is professor emeritus of sociology at Yale University. He has worked as a consultant for the U.S. military, the White House, and the nuclear-power industry.



Abnormal Blessings


Introduction



Normal Accident at Three Mile Island



Nuclear Power as a High-Risk System: Why We Have Not Had More TMIs--But Will Soon



Complexity, Coupling, and Catastrophe



Petrochemical Plants



Aircraft and Airways



Marine Accidents



Earthbound Systems: Dams, Quakes, Mines, and Lakes



Exotics: Space, Weapons, and DNA



Living with High-Risk Systems


Afterword


Postscript: The Y2K Problem


List of Acronyms


Notes


Bibliography


Index