Cover of Normal Accidents

Normal Accidents

Living with High-Risk Technologies

by Charles Perrow

1986 386 pages eng

"Normal" accidents, or system accidents, are so-called by Perrow because such accidents are inevitable in extremely complex systems. Given the characteristic of the system involved, multiple failures which interact with each other will occur, despite efforts to avoid them. Perrow said that operator …

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