2021/08/09 Normal Accidents, High Reliability, Wicked Messes | Coevolving Innovations
2021/08/09 Normal Accidents, High Reliability, Wicked Messes
Submitted by daviding on Tue, 08/10/2021 – 01:55
Discussion Leader
David Ing
Session Description
The original announcement is at https://wiki.st-on.org/2021-08-09.
Have we learned from brushes with disaster, or have we become complacent about complexities in everyday life?
On March 28, 1979, an accident with a nuclear reactor occurred at Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania. Twelve days earlier, an Academy Awards winning film The China Syndrome had opened with a story fictionalized from a 1975 fire at a nuclear plant in Brown’s Ferry, Alabama, raising public awareness of an issue. For a Presidential Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island, sociologist Charles Perrow contributed organizational analysis report. On a sabbatical to the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in 1981-1982, that report expanded to include other high-risk systems, becoming the Normal Accidents book, published in 1984.
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2021/08/09 Normal Accidents, High Reliability, Wicked Messes
2021/08/09 Normal Accidents, High Reliability, Wicked Messes | Coevolving Innovations
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