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Normal Accidents: Living With High-Risk Technologies

By Charles Perrow

Book information

Publisher
Basic Books
Year
1984
ISBN
046505143X, 9780465051434
LCC
T54 .P47 1984
Open Library ID
OL3186144M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
4 MB (3801873 bytes)
Pages
395\395
DPI
300
Time added
2011-01-23 12:00:00

Description

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.

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