that accidents are unavoidable and cannot be designed around. "Normal" accidents, or system accidents, are so-called by Perrow because such accidents are...
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coupling)." Perrow uses the term normal accident to emphasize that, given the current level of technology, such accidents are highly likely over a number...
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abandon such technology entirely. "Normal" accidents, or system accidents, are so called by Perrow because such accidents are inevitable in extremely complex...
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or forgetting an appointment. Accidents during the execution of work or arising out of it are called work accidents. According to the International...
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been many accidents with varying impacts as well near misses and incidents". As of 2014, there have been more than 100 serious nuclear accidents and incidents...
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that has succeeded in avoiding catastrophes in an environment where normal accidents can be expected due to risk factors and complexity. Important case...
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presents a theory of 'normal accidents' arising from the combination of tight coupling and complexity. Bookstaber reviews accidents such as Three Mile Island...
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Non-Nuclear Futures: The Case for an Ethical Energy Strategy (1975) Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies (1984) Nuclear Implosions: The...
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nuclear accidents would be expected in that period. Globally, there have been at least 99 (civilian and military) recorded nuclear power plant accidents from...
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Adage typically stated as: "Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong" Normal Accidents – 1984 book by Charles Perrow Setting up to fail – Form of workplace...
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distributions Miracle – Event not explicable by natural or scientific laws Normal Accidents – 1984 book by Charles Perrow Normalcy bias – Disbelief or minimization...
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safety guidelines. According to a 2010 survey of energy accidents, there have been at least 56 accidents at nuclear reactors in the United States (defined as...
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into making the single engine reliable. Charles Perrow, author of Normal accidents, wrote that sometimes redundancies backfire and produce less, not more...
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aviation accidents and incidents in or in the vicinity of the United States or its territories. It comprises a subset of both the list of accidents and incidents...
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Reason, creator of the Swiss cheese model, and Charles Perrow author of Normal Accidents. These scholars demonstrated the complexity and system coupling inherent...
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safe, accidents during the transportation of nuclear waste can still result in the leakage of nuclear contaminants. Large-scale nuclear accidents, like...
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and the ensuing civil disorder in surrounding areas. In his book Normal Accidents, Charles Perrow says that multiple and unexpected failures are built...
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Normal People is a 2018 novel by the Irish author Sally Rooney. Normal People is Rooney's second novel, published after Conversations with Friends (2017)...
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Nuclear safety and security (redirect from Nuclear accident analysis)
achievement of proper operating conditions, prevention of accidents or mitigation of accident consequences, resulting in protection of workers, the public...
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book Normal Accidents: Living With High Risk Technologies (ISBN 0-691-00412-9) which explains his theory of normal accidents; catastrophic accidents that...
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and community. The Three Mile Island accident inspired Perrow's book Normal Accidents, where a nuclear accident occurs, resulting from an unanticipated...
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Nuclear power debate (section Accidents and safety)
saw." The 1979 Three Mile Island accident inspired Charles Perrow's book Normal Accidents, where a nuclear accident occurs, resulting from an unanticipated...
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Tokaimura nuclear accidents refer to two nuclear related incidents near the village of Tōkai, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. The first accident occurred on 11...
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lists notable military accidents involving nuclear material. Civilian accidents are listed at List of civilian nuclear accidents. For a general discussion...
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Project: Development". USBR. Retrieved December 6, 2012. Perrow, Charles. Normal Accidents. New York: Basic Books, 1984. ISBN 0-465-05144-8, pp. 233–238 "The...
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Retrieved 2014-06-01. Scott D. Sagan (March 2004). "Learning from Normal Accidents" (PDF). Organization & Environment. Archived from the original (PDF)...
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"criticality accident alarm system" detectors that are properly deployed. Criticality accidents are divided into one of two categories: Process accidents, where...
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Island (Lake Winnipesaukee), an island in New Hampshire, United States Normal Accidents § Three Mile Island The China Syndrome This disambiguation page lists...
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and plane accidents but are relatively unconcerned about some highly frequent and deadly events, such as traffic crashes, household accidents, and medical...
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removed by condensate polishing treatment. Perrow, Charles (1999). Normal Accidents: Living with high-risk technologies. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-00412-9...
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