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‘Normal Accidents’ by Charles Perrow argues that in highly complex, tightly coupled systems with catastrophic potential, accidents are inevitable. Even with rigorous safety measures, small operator mistakes and organizational failures can interact, creating cascading failures that grow from trivial beginnings into major events with severe consequences. Perrow identifies the three key conditions—complexity, tight coupling, and catastrophic potential—that make systems vulnerable to such accidents.
First publish date: 1984
Genre: Technology & Computing/Computer Science
Authors: Charles Perrow
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