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Constance Perin's study is a penetrating and worrisome analysis. . . . [She] brings flashes of uncommonly graceful language and a sense of empathy for those with whom she spoke, which adds color to the usually bloodless dialects of probabilistic risk assessment. . . . [Perin's study] could result in a crisper recognition of the dilemmas we face . . . [while] her conclusions point to serious matters of institutional policy.
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Perin has written what could be called a manifesto for the second generation of studies involving [high-reliability organizations]. . . . This book is a major, solidly grounded, agenda-setting piece of work held together by an amazing blend of concepts and evidence!
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(Charlotte Linde Technology and Culture )
Constance Perin's study is a penetrating and worrisome analysis of life in several nuclear-powered electricity production stations similar to those on which a number of industrial societies continue to depend. . . . I commend Shouldering Risks . . . because Perin's work tries to sort out the logics of control that arise in conducting operations judged by our society to be of such benefit that institutionalizing very hazardous systems seems justified.
(Todd R. La Porte Administrative Science Quarterly )
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"The case studies explain why things went wrong and provide solid lessons for avoiding similar events in the future". -- David Lochbaum, The Plain Dealer --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Review
Constance Perin's study is a penetrating and worrisome analysis. . . . [She] brings flashes of uncommonly graceful language and a sense of empathy for those with whom she spoke, which adds color to the usually bloodless dialects of probabilistic risk assessment. . . . [Perin's study] could result in a crisper recognition of the dilemmas we face . . . [while] her conclusions point to serious matters of institutional policy.
(Todd R. La Porte Administrative Science Quarterly )
[A]n impressive ethnographic study. . . . This book will prove valuable for readers in any discipline who wish to understand more about the functioning of complex systems.
(Charlotte Linde Technology and Culture )
Perin has written what could be called a manifesto for the second generation of studies involving [high-reliability organizations]. . . . This book is a major, solidly grounded, agenda-setting piece of work held together by an amazing blend of concepts and evidence!
(Karl E. Weick Academy of Management Review )
Shouldering Risks is an impressive ethnographic study of the nuclear power industry. . . . This book will prove valuable for readers in any discipline who wish to understand more about the functioning of complex systems.
(Charlotte Linde Technology and Culture )
Constance Perin's study is a penetrating and worrisome analysis of life in several nuclear-powered electricity production stations similar to those on which a number of industrial societies continue to depend. . . . I commend Shouldering Risks . . . because Perin's work tries to sort out the logics of control that arise in conducting operations judged by our society to be of such benefit that institutionalizing very hazardous systems seems justified.
(Todd R. La Porte Administrative Science Quarterly )
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NUCLEAR POWER technology is famously complex technically and culturally, from design and construction through operation and into decommissioning, ultimately involving thousands of people, hundreds of techniques and skills, innumerable components. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
event review team, access authorization group, reactor oversight process, significance determination process, prejob briefings, nonnuclear side, high hazard technologies, station experts, organizational effectiveness team, human performance program, calculated logics, outage manager, root cause analysis team, licensee event reports, freeze seal, reactor coolant system, unescorted access, high reliability theory, transformer explosion, unnecessary regulatory burden, safe shutdown, safety significance, nuclear safety issue, assistant operations manager, work scheduler Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Arrow Station, Charles Station, Overton Station, Bowie Station, Conduct of Operations, Three Mile Island, United States, Electricité de France, Nuclear Energy Institute, Kemeny Commission, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northeast Utilities, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Boston Edison, Stanford University, University of California, Advisory Committee, Exelon Nuclear, George Apostolakis, Reactor Safeguards, Union of Concerned Scientists New!
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NUCLEAR POWER technology is famously complex technically and culturally, from design and construction through operation and into decommissioning, ultimately involving thousands of people, hundreds of techniques and skills, innumerable components. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
event review team, access authorization group, reactor oversight process, significance determination process, prejob briefings, nonnuclear side, high hazard technologies, station experts, organizational effectiveness team, human performance program, calculated logics, outage manager, root cause analysis team, licensee event reports, freeze seal, reactor coolant system, unescorted access, high reliability theory, transformer explosion, unnecessary regulatory burden, safe shutdown, safety significance, nuclear safety issue, assistant operations manager, work scheduler Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Arrow Station, Charles Station, Overton Station, Bowie Station, Conduct of Operations, Three Mile Island, United States, Electricité de France, Nuclear Energy Institute, Kemeny Commission, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northeast Utilities, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Boston Edison, Stanford University, University of California, Advisory Committee, Exelon Nuclear, George Apostolakis, Reactor Safeguards, Union of Concerned Scientists New!
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- Nuclear Energy by Scientific American on 4 pages
- Health and Safety (Statutory Instruments) by The Stationery Office in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies by Charles Perrow in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Final report by Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Activities of the Nugan Hand Group in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Limits of Safety by Scott Douglas Sagan in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- In Search of an Integrative Vision for Technology: Interdisciplinary Studies in Information Systems (Contemporary Systems Thinking) by Sytse Strijbos on page 275, and Back Matter
- Emergent Forms of Life and the Anthropological Voice by Michael Fischer in Back Matter
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