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Normal Accidents
Living with High Risk Technologies - Updated Edition
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Artikel-Nr:
9780691004129
Veröffentl:
1999
Erscheinungsdatum:
17.10.1999
Seiten:
464
Autor:
Charles Perrow
Gewicht:
635 g
Format:
234x155x30 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Charles PerrowWith a new afterword and a new postscript by the author
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.
Abnormal Blessings vii Introduction 3 1. Normal Accident at Three Mile Island 15 2. Nuclear Power as a High-Risk System: Why We Have Not Had More TMIs--But Will Soon 32 3. Complexity, Coupling, and Catastrophe 62 4. Petrochemical Plants 101 5. Aircraft and Airways 123 6. Marine Accidents 170 7. Earthbound Systems: Dams, Quakes, Mines, and Lakes 232 8. Exotics: Space, Weapons, and DNA 256 9. Living with High-Risk Systems 304 Afterword 353 Postscript: The Y2K Problem 388 List of Acronyms 413 Notes 415 Bibliography 426 Index 441