Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. I gravitated to his understandable explanations of the matrix of complex v linear and loose v tight coupling. Case in point, the back-up generators for cooling Japan's now melting down nuke plant were on the ground to protect against typhoons from disabling them, but the tsunami got to them. To resolve such issues in tightly-coupled organizations it’s vital to consider an approach of “subsidiarity” where decisions are taken at the lowest appropriate level and coordination happens at the highest necessary level.
Charles Perrow is an emeritus professor of Sociology at Yale and a visiting professor at Stanford.
Really, really complex. Perrow, Charles.
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By the time information about the problem reached him, people were dying: in the time it took him to react and provide a response, people were dead. That said, it's a fantastic book that provides a great foundation for Vaughan's book on the Challenger launch decision
Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations The Chernobyl nuclear accident, to name one recent disaster, was partially brought about by the failure of a safety system that was being brought on line, a failure that touched off an unforeseeable and irreversible chain of disruptions; the less severe but still frightening accident at Three Mile Island, similarly, came about as the result of small errors that, taken by themselves, were insignificant, but that snowballed to near-catastrophic result.
Author assumes the world won't change and people won't get appreciably better at running highly complex systems. In doing so he established what he called So how do we get from nuclear meltdown to live events? Does this book contain quality or formatting issues? Buy Normal Accidents: Living with High Risk Technologies (Princeton Paperbacks) Updated edition with a New afterword and a new postscript by the author by Perrow, Charles (ISBN: 9780691004129) from Amazon's Book Store.
In this edition, page numbers are just like the physical edition Kevin’s argument also supports John Downer’s (2010) concept of Epistemic accidents. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. Please try againSorry, we failed to record your vote.
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I gravitated to his understandable explanations of the matrix of complex v linear and loose v tight coupling.
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Plenty of mayhem can ensue, he replies. These are matters of common sense, applied to simple questions of cause and effect. Please try againSorry, we failed to record your vote.
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Drive a car on a pitch-black night without headlights, and you dramatically increase the odds of smacking into a tree. Entertaining and, before all, very useful insights!Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 27, 2015
Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. It’s Perrow’s “complexity” in a nutshell. [Perrow's] research undermines promises that 'better management' and 'more operator training' can eliminate catastrophic accidents. But as per Perrow, even if there were tertiary back-ups up higher, another, additional unanticipatable flaw, might have emerged anyway.
Glad I could connect with a great quality used copy. Combined they are table salt, partly responsible for life on earth, but you could NEVER have predicted that before hand from the starting ingredients) and or the cost $$$$$$ is prohibative.
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Normal Accidents analyzes the social side of technological risk.