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Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies
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| #79038 in Books | Princeton University Press | 1999-09-27 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.20 x1.18 x6.10l,1.40 | File type: PDF | 464 pages | Great product!||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Read this. March 2011, TIMELY Emergent Properties|By Laurie LM|I read this 12 years ago. TOday, March 19, 2011, nuke disaster in Japan, more timely than ever. Perrow introduced me to tightly coupled, complex systems like nuke plants. I gravitated to his understandable explanations of the matrix of complex v linear and loose v tight coupling. Example of linear-tight is a bakery,|.com |Hang a curtain too close to a fireplace and you run the risk of setting your house ablaze. Drive a car on a pitch-black night without headlights, and you dramatically increase the odds of smacking into a tree.| These are matters of common sense, applied t
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 reco...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies | Charles Perrow. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.