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Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies Revised Edition
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Looking at an array of real and potential technological mishaps--including the Bhopal chemical-plant accident of 1984, the Challenger explosion of 1986, and the possible disruptions of Y2K and genetic engineering--Perrow concludes that as our technologies become more complex, the odds of tragic results increase.
Product Details
| ISBN-10 | 0691004129 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0691004129 |
| Edition | Revised |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
| Publication date | September 27, 1999 |
| Language | English |
| Dimensions | 6.1 x 1.18 x 9.2 inches |
| Print length | 464 pages |
| Date First Available | 2021-3-23 22:28:3 |
Features & Benefits
- Complex systems can lead to potential technological mishaps
- Normal accidents are the inevitable consequences of launching industrial ventures
- Improvements in system safety may introduce new opportunities for disaster
- Tragic results increase as our technologies become more complex
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- Question : What is the book about?Answer : The book discusses potential technological mishaps and how complexities to system safety may introduce new opportunities for disaster.
- Question : What are Normal Accidents?Answer : Normal Accidents are the inevitable consequences of launching industrial ventures.
- Question : What are the odds of tragic results?Answer : The odds of tragic results increase as our technologies become more complex.
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Charles Perrow Engineering Editorial Review
The book, Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies, describes the theory of normal accidents (NAT) and explores its application in disasters in different high-risk systems. The author, Charles Perrow, provides examples of NAT in nuclear power plants, petrochemical plants, air travel, marine shipping, dams and mines, space, weapons and recombinant DNA. While the book starts well and the author's criticism of the risks associated with different systems is informative, the quality of the chapters deteriorates, and the final three become tedious and unhelpful. The final chapter contains the author's recommendations, while the Afterword is a missed opportunity to provide an update on NAT. The book could have been better, but it provides a good insight into NAT, particularly when describing the historical record of various industries and their safety features.
Pros
- Provides a good insight into normal accident theory.
- The book describes the historical record of different industries and their safety features.
- The author's criticism of the risks associated with various systems is informative and well-argued.
Cons
- The book becomes tedious, and the final three chapters are unhelpful.
- The Afterword misses an opportunity to update NAT.
- The author's recommendations in the final chapter read as if they are not to be taken seriously.
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