Normal accidents: living with high-risk technologies, with a new afterword and a postscript on the Y2K problem
""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 prec...
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| Institution: | ETUI-European Trade Union Institute |
| Format: | TEXT |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton, NJ.
1999
Princeton University Press |
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| Online Access: | https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-19307231124911254139-Normal-accidents-living-with-h.htm |
