- Accidents, Industrial accidents, Risk, Risk assessment
"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.
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- earnestironic
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- Author
- Charles Perrow
- First published
- 1984
- Pages
- 400
- Publisher
- Basic Books, Shang zhou chu ban, Basic Bks
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English, Chinese
- ISBN
- 9781400828494
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“Our first example of the accident potential of complex systems is the accident at the Three Mile Island Unit 2 nuclear plant near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on March 28, 1979.”
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