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 | #438804 in Books |  Princeton University Press |  1999-09-27 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.20 x1.18 x6.10l,1.40 | File type: PDF | 464 pages

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| A brilliant analysis.|By Customer|This book is an expatiation of Murphy's Law. The author argues that complex systems are vulnerable to failure and that failures are unpredictable because, in complex systems, the way failing components fail synergistically is inherently impossible to foresee.
The Challenger explosion, for example, has been blamed on a number of lapses i|.com |Hang a curtain too close to a fireplace and you run the risk of setting your house ablaze. Drive a car on a pitch-black night without headlights, and you dramatically increase the odds of smacking into a tree.| These are matters of common sense, applied t

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 reco...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies   |  Charles Perrow. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!

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