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Normal Accidents: Living with High-risk Technologies
Normal Accidents Living with Highrisk Technologies
Author: Charles Perrow
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.
ISBN-13: 9780465051441
ISBN-10: 0465051448
Publication Date: 6/27/1986
Pages: 400
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Publisher: Basic Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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