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Normal Accidents: Living With High Risk Technologies
Normal Accidents Living With High Risk Technologies
Author: Charles Perrow
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 catego...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780465051427
ISBN-10: 0465051421
Publication Date: 9/1985
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Publisher: Basic Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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