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Normal accidents : living with high-risk technologies /
"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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
©1999.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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."--Jacket |
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| Notas: | Originally published: New York : Basic Books, 1984. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 451 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 426-439) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781400828494 140082849X 9781283379809 1283379805 |