Risk management: Role of societal factors in major industrial accidents
Conference
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OSTI ID:282315
- Norwegian Inst. of Technology, Trondheim (Norway)
The paper discusses factors influencing the occurrence of major accidents in complex technological systems. Societal factors are identified as most significant in this context. Important types of societal factors are pin-pointed and discussed. The safety situation in the former Soviet Union and in today`s Russian is described. The calamities at Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and partly also Bhopal are discussed, and the role of societal factors identified. A main point of view is that it is not surprising that these catastrophes happened in the then existing conditions. What is surprising is that they did not happen earlier!
- OSTI ID:
- 282315
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9505224--; ISBN 1-56555-079-X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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