Normal accidents : living with high-risk technologies
By: Perrow, Charles
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BookSeries: Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, c1999.Description: x, 451 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780691004129Program: WHSSubject(s): Industrial accidents | Technology -- Risk assessment | Accidents | Industrial accidents | Technology | AccidentsDDC classification: 363.1 Online resources: Location Map | Item type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| 363.705610973 NO EN Environmental policy and governance in an era of climate change | 363.1 HO SA Safety, culture and risk : | 363.1 PE NO Normal accidents : | 363.1 PE NO Normal accidents : | 363.1 TO HE Health and safety at work for dummies | 363.1 VI OC Occupational risk control : | 363.1 ZE SE Security / |
Reprint. Originally published: New York : Basic Books, 1984.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 426-439) and index.
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.
Analyzes the societal impact of high-risk technologies and argues that conventional engineering approaches to safety fail due to the complex nature of technological systems and their inevitable failure.
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