Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies
ISBN: 0691004129
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bd_at_rivenhill
· 2015-02-04
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You should read Charles Perrow's "Normal Accidents" and all will be revealed. This is hardly a new problem.
http://www.amazon.com/Normal-Accidents-Living-High-Risk-Tech...
phlo
· 2013-07-06
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If you liked "How Complex Systems Fail", you may be interested in "Normal Accidents" [1]. It's basically the long-form complete version of the paper you mentioned and packed with interesting examples.
[1] http://www.amazon.com/Normal-Accidents-Living-High-Risk-Tech...
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Like you said (and illustrated well in the book) it's never just 1 thing, these incidents happen when multiple systems interact and often reflect a the disinvestment in comprehensive safety schemes.