Normal accidents: living with high risk technologies
PERROW Charles
Normal accidents: living with high risk technologies - rev. edn. - Princeton, NJ.: Princeton Univ Press, 1999 - 451p.
Analyzes the social side of technological risk. Argues that the conventional engineering approach to ensuring safety fails because increasing complexity makes failures more likely or even inevitable. Covers accidents in the nuclear power industry (Three Mile Island), petrochemical plants, aircraft and flying, marine accidents, dams, mines, earthquakes, space and weapon systems. Concludes with some suggestions about what should be done. When first published in 1984 this book was hailed as a breakthrough in accident research.
0691004129 (pbk.): 19.95 US
ACCIDENTS
AIR SAFETY
EARLY WARNING SYSTEMS
MARINE ACCIDENTS
NUCLEAR REACTORS--ACCIDENTS
RISK ANALYSIS
SPACE CRAFT--ACCIDENTS
Normal accidents: living with high risk technologies - rev. edn. - Princeton, NJ.: Princeton Univ Press, 1999 - 451p.
Analyzes the social side of technological risk. Argues that the conventional engineering approach to ensuring safety fails because increasing complexity makes failures more likely or even inevitable. Covers accidents in the nuclear power industry (Three Mile Island), petrochemical plants, aircraft and flying, marine accidents, dams, mines, earthquakes, space and weapon systems. Concludes with some suggestions about what should be done. When first published in 1984 this book was hailed as a breakthrough in accident research.
0691004129 (pbk.): 19.95 US
ACCIDENTS
AIR SAFETY
EARLY WARNING SYSTEMS
MARINE ACCIDENTS
NUCLEAR REACTORS--ACCIDENTS
RISK ANALYSIS
SPACE CRAFT--ACCIDENTS