Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies: Difference between revisions

!Linear

!Complex

|Examples

|Dams, power grids, rail transport, marine transport

|Nuclear power plants, DNA, chemical plants, aircraft, space missions, BANKS

|Control method

|'''Centralisation''': Best to deal with chain reactions, and best to deal with visible, expected linear reactions

|'''Centralisation''': best to deal with chain reactions once they happen:  

Local control: best to deal with non-linear reactions and unexpected events as they happen.  

|Examples

|Manufacturing, single-purpose agencies

|Mining, Research and development, multi-purpose agencies, universities

|Control method

|'''Centralisation or local control''': Few complex interactions; component failures create predictable results, and can be managed centrally.