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living with high-risk technologies : with a new afterword and a postscript on the Y2K problem

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Normal accidents

living with high-risk technologies : with a new afterword and a postscript on the Y2K problem

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"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 error is a very common problem, many failures relate to organizations rather than technology, and big accidents almost always have very small beginnings. Such events appear trivial to begin with before unpredictably cascading through the system to create a large event with severe consequences.

Perrow identifies three conditions that make a system likely to be susceptible to Normal Accidents. These are:
- The system is complex
- The system is tightly coupled
- The system has catastrophic potential

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Normal Accidents: Living with High Risk Technologies - Updated Edition
2011, Princeton University Press
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Cover of: Dang ke ji bian cheng zai nan
Dang ke ji bian cheng zai nan: yu gao feng xian xi tong gong cun
2001, Shang zhou chu ban
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Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies
September 27, 1999, Princeton University Press
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Normal accidents: living with high-risk technologies.
1986, Basic Bks
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Normal Accidents
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Normal Accidents: Living With High Risk Technologies
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1984, Basic Books
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Reprint. Originally published: New York : Basic Books, 1984.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 426-439) and index.

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Princeton, N.J

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Library of Congress
HD7262 .P55 1999, HD7262.P55 1999

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x, 451 p. :
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451

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OL15489746M
Internet Archive
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0691004129
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99032990
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41482272
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441125
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