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Author:	Charles Perrow	Format:	Paperback
Publisher:	Princeton Univ Pr	ISBN-10:	0691004129
Edition Description:	Updated	ISBN-13:	9780691004129
Educational Level:	--	Product Type:	--
Publication Year:	1999	Subject:	Science & Tech
Language:	English	Condition:	Brand New

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Length:	386 pages
Height:	9.5 in.
Width:	6.3 in.
Thickness:	1.0 in.
Weight:	23.2 oz.

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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. The first edition fulfilled one reviewer's prediction that it "may mark the beginning of accident research." In the new introduction to this edition the author reviews the extensive work on the major accidents of the last 15 years, and the valuable extensions and refinements of his theory.
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"The approach of 2000 provided a good occasion for Perrow to update and expand his groundbreaking book. The new edition, published in paperback in November, gives him not only a well-deserved chance to say 'I told you so,' but also an opportunity to go on the record with his predictions about the Y2K problem....There will never be another year 2000, but I suspect this won't be the last edition of NORMAL ACCIDENTS." Wade Roush (03/20/2000)

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