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Post Normal Accident - Revisiting Perrow's Classic (Paperback)
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Post Normal Accident - Revisiting Perrow's Classic (Paperback)
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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. This book
examines the conceptual and empirical evolutions of the past two to
three decades to explore their implications for safety management
based on several strands of works in various research traditions in
safety (e.g. cognitive engineering and system safety,
high-reliability organisation, sociology of safety, regulatory
studies) and other interdisciplinary fields (e.g. international
business, globalisation studies, strategy management, ecology). It
offers a new and insightful interpretation to the challenges of
today. It investigates how globalisation has reconfigured the
operating landscape of high-risk systems and emphasises the
importance of thinking safety through a strategic angle. This book
serves as an ideal resource for the safety professionals and safety
researchers from any established disciplines such as sociology,
engineering, psychology, political science or management. Features:
Introduces an original analysis of popular safety writings,
including Normal Accident, by Perrow Identifies the importance of
thinking safety from a sociological angle with the help of key
writers Stresses the need for greater sensitivity to strategy and
"errors from the top" when it comes to the safety of high-risk
systems Explains how globalisation has reconfigured the operating
landscape of high-risk systems Renews our understanding of the
current safety management challenges in an increasingly global risk
picture
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