ESSAY
"Accident Prevention as a Technical System"

Categories

David Smith

February 25, 2003

Technology

Nightclub

Complex systems

Normal accidents

Excerpt (first and last two sentences)
"The predominant source of news for the past few weeks has been a new topic in technology and technological systems.  Two recent nightclub accidents have resulted in a total of over 120 deaths in Rhode Island and Chicago....
...The results are not conclusive yet, however indications are that little if any preventative actions were taken. 
Perhaps the unstable element wasn’t the band at all; perhaps it was the club owners."

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