TY  - BOOK
AU  - PERROW Charles
TI  - Normal accidents: living with high risk technologies
SN  - 0691004129 (pbk.):
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Princeton, NJ.
PB  - Princeton Univ Press
KW  - ACCIDENTS
KW  - AIR SAFETY
KW  - EARLY WARNING SYSTEMS
KW  - MARINE ACCIDENTS
KW  - NUCLEAR REACTORS
KW  - RISK ANALYSIS
KW  - SPACE CRAFT
N2  - 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
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