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Bartlett, Christopher OpenHatch Books, How, When ... and Most Importantly Why, 2011
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**Major update September 2012** with proofreader specializing in aviation. The **Colgan Air** disaster was added and the Air France **AF447** crash rewritten with a unique countdown timeline. These two accidents show how pilots, having become dependent on automation, may may not be able to cope with certain situations unless trained in a new way.As before, includes **Tenerife (**the worst-ever multi-aircraft disaster), **Japan Airlines JL123** (the worst single-aircraft disaster), the **de Havilland Comet** (the first jetliner)**, DC-10**, supersonic **Concorde**, **Kegworth** air disaster (where pilots mistakenly shut down the good engine), **Piché's** 80-mile glide to a safe landing on an island in the Atlantic after his fuel ran out, a **mid-air collision** where a father subsequently assassinated the air traffic controller he presumed was responsible, **AA587** NYC, **Avianca** NYC, Sully's **Hudson River ditching** ... The lessons from these and the other accidents narrated and analysed here helped make flying so safe today. Those lessons are applicable in medicine and many other fields.
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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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Air Crashes and Miracle Landings: 60 Narratives: (How, When ... and Most Importantly Why)
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Normal Accidents : Living with High Risk Technologies - Updated Edition
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Christopher Bartlett
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Perrow, Charles
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Charles Perrow
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Princeton University, Department of Art & Archaeology
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Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press
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Reprinted with revisions and updates ... 2013, London, UK, 2013
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Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1999
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Princeton paperbacks, Princeton, New Jersey, 1999
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United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom
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United States, United States of America
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Rev. ed, Princeton, N.J, 1999 (1984)
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Updated edition, September 27, 1999
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Updated ed, Buckinghamshire, 2011
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Princeton, N.J, New Jersey, 1999
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Updated ed, London, 2012
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Revised, PS, 1999
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2011-08-17
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Reprint. Originally published: New York : Basic Books, 1984.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 426-439) and index.
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subject: Industrial accidents; Technology; Accidents
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contributor: Internet Archive
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format: Image/Djvu(.djvu)
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rights: The access limited around the compus-network users
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unit_name: Internet Archive
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topic: Industrial accidents; Technology; Accidents
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Type: 英文图书
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Bookmarks:
1. (p1) Abnormal Blessings
2. (p2) Introduction
3. (p3) 1. Normal Accident at Three Mile Island
4. (p4) 2. Nuclear Power as a High-Risk System: Why We Have Not Had More TMIs-But Will Soon
5. (p5) 3. Complexity, Coupling, and Catastrophe
6. (p6) 4. Petrochemical Plants
7. (p7) 6. Marine Accidents
8. (p8) 7. Earthbound Systems: Dams, Quakes, Mines, and Lakes
9. (p9) 8. Exotics: Space, Weapons, and DNA
10. (p10) 9. Living with High-Risk Systems
11. (p11) Afterword
12. (p12) Postscript: The Y2K Problem
13. (p13) List of Acronyms
14. (p14) Notes
15. (p15) Bibliography
16. (p16) Index
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theme: Industrial accidents; Technology; Accidents
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<p><i>Normal Accidents</i> 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 asserts that typical precautions, by adding to complexity, may help create new categories of accidents. (At Chernobyl, tests of a new safety system helped produce the meltdown and subsequent fire.) By recognizing two dimensions of risk—complex versus linear interactions, and tight versus loose coupling—this book provides a powerful framework for analyzing risks and the organizations that insist we run them.</p>
<p>The first edition fulfilled one reviewer's prediction that it "may mark the beginning of accident research." In the new afterword to this edition Perrow reviews the extensive work on the major accidents of the last fifteen years, including Bhopal, Chernobyl, and the Challenger disaster. The new postscript probes what the author considers to be the "quintessential 'Normal Accident'" of our time: the Y2K computer problem.</p>
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Major update September 2012 with proofreader specializing in aviation.
The Colgan Air disaster was added and the Air France AF447 crash rewritten with a unique countdown timeline. These two accidents show how pilots, having become dependent on automation, may may not be able to cope with certain situations unless trained in a new way.
As before, includes Tenerife ( the worst-ever multi-aircraft disaster), Japan Airlines JL123 (the worst single-aircraft disaster), the de Havilland Comet (the first jetliner) , DC-10 , supersonic Concorde , Kegworth air disaster (where pilots mistakenly shut down the good engine), Piché's 80-mile glide to a safe landing on an island in the Atlantic after his fuel ran out, a mid-air collision where a father subsequently assassinated the air traffic controller he presumed was responsible, AA587 NYC, Avianca NYC, Sully's Hudson River ditching ...
The lessons from these and the other accidents narrated and analysed here helped make flying so safe today. Those lessons are applicable in medicine and many other fields.
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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
[[Wikipedia][1]]
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_Accidents "Wikipedia"
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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 asserts that typical precautions, by adding to complexity, may help create new categories of accidents. (At Chernobyl, tests of a new safety system helped produce the meltdown and subsequent fire.) By recognizing two dimensions of risk - complex versus linear interactions, and tight versus loose coupling - this book provides a powerful framework for analyzing risks and the organizations that insist we run them."--Jacket
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This text analyzes the social side of technological risk. It argues that the conventional engineering approach to ensuring safety, building more warnings and safeguards, fails because systems complexity makes failures inevitable. The author asserts that typical precautions, by adding to complexity, may help create new categories of accidents. By recognizing two dimensions of risk, complex versus linear interactions and tight versus loose coupling, the book provides a framework for analyzing risks and the organizations that insist on they are run
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The author argues that the conventional approach to ensuring safety - building in more warnings and safeguards - fails because it makes systems more complex and thus more likely to fail. For example, tests of a new safety system at Chernobyl nuclear power station helped produce the meltdown and subsequent fire. By recognizing two dimensions of risk - complex versus linear interactions, and tight versus loose coupling - this book provides a powerful framework for analyzing risks and the organizations that insist we run them
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"A classic combining several types of aviation disaster books in one. It vividly retells incidents that made headlines at the time, while explaining why they happened and the lessons they provided to make air travel so safe today."--Publisher description
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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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