Normal Accidents: Living with High Risk Technologies - Updated EditionPrinceton University Press, 12 oct. 2011 - 464 pagini 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. |
Cuprins
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Why We Have Not Had More TMIsBut Will Soon | 32 |
3 Complexity Coupling and Catastrophe | 62 |
4 Petrochemical Plants | 101 |
5 Aircraft and Airways | 123 |
6 Marine Accidents | 170 |
Dams Quakes Mines and Lakes | 232 |
9 Living with HighRisk Systems | 304 |
Afterword | 353 |
The Y2K Problem | 388 |
List of Acronyms | 413 |
Notes | 415 |
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Space Weapons and DNA | 256 |