Post Normal Accident: Revisiting Perrow's Classic

ISBN-13: 9780367502287 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 170 str.

Jean-Christophe Le-Coze

Opis

Post Normal Accident revisits Perrow’s classic Normal Accident published in 1984 and provides additional insights to our sociological view of safety-critical organisations.

Spis treści

1. One Book, Two Theses (NA and na) 2. Hopkins, the Unofficial Theorist of NA 3. Errors from the Top 4. From Component to Network Failure Accidents 5. (Global) Eco-Socio-Technological Systems: Expanding Scale, Scope and Timeframe: Rethinking Perrow’s 2x2 Matrix 6. Conclusion

O autorze

Jean-Christophe Le Coze is a safety researcher (PhD, Mines ParisTech) at INERIS, the French national institute for environmental safety. His activities combine ethnographic studies and action research in various safety-critical systems, with an empirical, theoretical, historical and epistemological orientation.