Normal Accidents: Living With High Risk Technologies - Updated Edition [Audiobook] download free by Charles Perrow
- Listen audiobook: Normal Accidents: Living With High Risk Technologies - Updated Edition
- Author: Charles Perrow
- Release date: 1999/1/20
- Publisher: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Business, Finance and Law
- ISBN: 9780691004129
- Rating: 8.57 of 10
- Votes: 701
- Review by: Esther Crockett
- Review rating: 7.92 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/11
- Duration: 5H43M17S in 256 kbps (92.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-21
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: Vorbis, WAV, WMA, MPEG4, MP3, FLAC, AAC (compression TBZ2, RZ, RAR, Z, ZIP)
- Total pages original book: 464
- Includes a PDF summary of 39 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 29M58S (7.8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 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.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Sociology & Anthropology, Reliability Engineering, Industrial Relations & Safety, Occupational / Industrial Health & Safety, Impact Of Science & Technology On Society, Technology: General Issues
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 38.66 USD
- Dimensions: 154.94x233.68x29.97mm
- Weight: 624g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: New Jersey, United States
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