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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Perrow, Charles
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, ©1999.
Subjects:
Industrial accidents.
Technology > Risk assessment.
Accidents.
Risk assessment.
Technology.
Accidents, Occupational
Risk Assessment
Technology
Accidents
Technologie > Évaluation du risque.
Travail > Accidents.
Évaluation du risque.
Technologie.
accidents.
risk assessment.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Safety.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > General.
Risk assessment
Industrial accidents
Technology > Risk assessment
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Abnormal blessings
  • Introduction
  • Normal accident at Three Mile Island
  • Nuclear power as a high-risk system: why we have not had more TMIs ... but will soon
  • Complexity, coupling, and catastrophe
  • Petrochemical plants
  • Aircraft and airways
  • Marine accidents
  • Earthbound systems: dams, quakes, mines, and lakes
  • Exotics: space, weapons, and DNA
  • Living with high-risk systems
  • Afterword
  • Postscript: the Y2K problem
  • List of acronyms.

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