Normal Accidents
Subtitle: Living with High-Risk Technologies
Edition: Updated edition
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: September 27, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 462
ISBN-13: 9780691004129
Subjects: Occupational / industrial health & safety; Reliability engineering; Sociology, Social Studies; Social Aspects; Technology And Social Change; Technology & Industrial Arts; Science/Mathematics; Technology; Industrial Health & Safety; Economics; Sociology; Technology / General; Reference; Accidents; Industrial Accidents; Risk assessment
First sentence: 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.