Normal accidents

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Analyzes the social side of technological risk. This book argues that the conventional engineering approach to ensuring safety - building in more warnings and safeguards - fails because systems complexity makes failures inevitable. It asserts that typical precautions, by adding to complexity, may help create new categories of accidents.



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 afterword to this edition Perrow reviews the extensive work on the major accidents of the last fifteen years, including Bhopal, Chernobyl, and the Challenger disaster. The new postscript probes what the author considers to be the "quintessential 'Normal Accident'" of our time: the Y2K computer problem.

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Normal Accidents

Rating: 3.5 / 5 | Prijs: € 33.99

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 t Direct beschikbaar .. MEER INFO

The Challenger Launch Decision

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When the space shuttle challenger exploded on january 28 1986 millions of americans became bound together in a single historic moment many still vividly remember exactly where they were and what they were doing when they heard about the tragedy diane vaughan recreates the steps leading up to th Op voorraad. Voor 23:59 uur besteld, donderdag in huis .. MEER INFO

International Health and Safety at Work

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International health and safety at work has been specially written in simple english for the thousands of students who complete the nebosh international general certificate in health and safety each year fully revised in alignment with the april 2015 syllabus this third edition provides students w Uiterlijk 5 december in huis .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Bindwijze: Paperback

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 17 oktober 1999

Aantal pagina's: 386

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Charles Perrow

Hoofduitgeverij: Princeton University Press

Editie: Revised edition

Extra groot lettertype: Nee

Product breedte: 154 mm

Product hoogte: 25 mm

Product lengte: 232 mm

Studieboek: Ja

Verpakking breedte: 158 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 32 mm

Verpakking lengte: 234 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 653 g

EAN: 9780691004129

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