1st Edition
Post Normal Accident Revisiting Perrow’s Classic
By Jean-Christophe Le Coze
Copyright 2020
186 Pages
15 Color & 3 B/W Illustrations
by
CRC Press
208 Pages
16 B/W Illustrations
by
CRC Press
186 Pages
15 Color & 3 B/W Illustrations
by
CRC Press
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Post Normal Accident revisits Perrow’s classic Normal Accident published in 1984 and provides additional insights to our sociological view of safety-critical organisations. The operating landscape of high-risk systems has indeed profoundly changed in the past 20 to 30 years but the core sociological models of safety remain associated with classics of the 1980s and 1990s.
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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
Biography
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.
