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Human and Organizational Factors in Nuclear Safety
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Human and Organizational Factors in Nuclear Safety

by Gregory Rolina
August 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
294 pages
9h 59m
English
CRC Press
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Human and Organizational Factors in Nuclear Safety
technology and the organization of work, which he calls “tightly coupled”
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also a factor of unreliability. This property has specific implications – the
sequences in the process are invariant, there is only one way of getting
something done and there are few substitution possibilities for obtaining
supplies, equipment and humanpower. Put together, these constraints limit an
organization’s substitution capabilities. System redundancies are designed in
advance, limiting an organization’s ability to cope with unexpected events.
Perrow also notes that although, on the whole, social organizations ...
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