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Normal Accidents: Living with High Risk Technol...
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...
Normal Accidents: Living With High-risk Technol...
A noted Yale sociologist examines how and why catastrophic accidents occur in high-tech industries--nuclear power, petrochemical, and aerospace--and argues that they are becoming nearly inevitable in our advanced technological society.
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.
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.
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