Normal accidents: living with high risk technologies - updated edition
Auteur :
Perrow, Charles
Éditeur :
Princeton University Press
ISBN :
9780691004129
Date de publication :
17 oct. 1999
Dimensions :
21,0 x 15,0 x 2,5 cm
Poids :
624 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.