Normal Accidents: Living with High Risk Technologies - Charles Perrow - Google Books

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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…