Charles Perrow Normal Accidents (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Normal AccidentsCondition: NewEAN: 9780691004129ISBN: 9780691004129Publisher: Princeton University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 10/17/1999Item Height: 235mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 624gAuthor: Charles PerrowLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Living with High Risk Technologies - Updated EditionISBN-10: 0691004129Description: Normal Accidents analyzes 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 reviewer's prediction that it "may mark the beginning of accident research." In the new afterword to this edition Perrow reviews the extensive work on the major accidents of the last fifteen years, including Bhopal, Chernobyl, and the Challenger disaster. The new postscript probes what the author considers to be the "quintessential 'Normal Accident'" of our time: the Y2K computer problem.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Social Sciences, Business & Finance, Technology & EngineeringEdition: Updated EditionRelease Year: 1999 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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Book Title: Normal Accidents

Title: Normal Accidents

EAN: 9780691004129

ISBN: 9780691004129

Release Date: 10/17/1999

Release Year: 1999

Subtitle: Living with High Risk Technologies - Updated Edition

ISBN-10: 0691004129

Country/Region of Manufacture: US

Genre: Society & Culture

Topic: Technology & Engineering

Edition: Updated Edition

Number of Pages: 464 Pages

Language: English

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

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Subject: Emergency Medicine, Industrial Health & Safety, General

Publication Year: 1999

Item Height: 1.1 in

Features: Revised

Type: Textbook

Item Weight: 22 Oz

Subject Area: Technology & Engineering, Medical

Author: Charles Perrow

Item Length: 9.3 in

Item Width: 6.1 in

Format: Trade Paperback