Post Normal Accident: Revisiting Perrow's Classic

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...