Description: Normal Accidents : Living With High-Risk Technologies, Paperback by Perrow, Charles, ISBN 0691004129, ISBN-13 9780691004129, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK
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 reviewers 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.
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Book Title: Normal Accidents : Living With High-Risk Technologies
Number of Pages: 464 Pages
Publication Name: Normal Accidents: Living with High Risk Technologies-Updated Edition
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Item Height: 235 mm
Subject: Engineering & Technology
Publication Year: 1999
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 624 g
Author: Charles Perrow
Item Width: 152 mm
Format: Paperback
