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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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Our first example of the accident potential of complex systems is the accident at the Three Mile Island Unit 2 nuclear plant near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on March 28, 1979.

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  • Title Normal Accidents: Living with High Risk Technologies - Updated Edition
  • Author Charles Perrow
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Updated
  • Pages 464
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Princeton University Press, Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1999-10-17
  • Features Bibliography
  • ISBN 9780691004129 / 0691004129
  • Weight 1.4 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.2 x 6.1 x 1.18 in (23.37 x 15.49 x 3.00 cm)
  • Category Technology & Industrial Arts
  • Library of Congress subjects Industrial accidents, Accidents
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 99032990
  • Dewey Decimal Code 363.1

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Charles Perrow is Professor of Sociology at Yale University. His other books include The Radical Attack on Business, Organizational Analysis: A Sociological View, Complex Organizations: A Critical Essay, and The AIDS Disaster: The Failure of Organizations in New York and the Nation.
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