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high-reliability-theory

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• Perrow's 1994 'Limits of Safety' reply to High Reliability Theory, as quoted by Hopkins: a classification move, not a direct answer to 'necessary but not sufficient'
  capture promoted Tier 2 2026-09-24 · charles-perrow, normal-accident-theory, high-reliability-theory, la-porte, rochlin
• Hopkins reports that Perrow in 1994 had 'no difficulty' with Sagan's list of NAT mechanisms, which includes the inevitability proposition
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-09-24 · charles-perrow, normal-accident-theory, inevitability, sagan, high-reliability-theory
• Perrow's 1994 reply, as quoted by Hopkins, disputes that HRT's flagship systems are complex and tightly coupled rather than arguing they are insufficient
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-09-24 · charles-perrow, normal-accident-theory, high-reliability-theory, la-porte, hopkins
• Does La Porte's High Reliability Theory change what the vault's Bit2Watt/NAT bridge is actually claiming?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-14 · normal-accident-theory, high-reliability-theory, la-porte, charles-perrow, tight-coupling
• The Berkeley High Reliability Organizations project's founding 1984 fieldwork included Pacific Gas & Electric's grid-management operations
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-14 · high-reliability-theory, gene-rochlin, pacific-gas-and-electric, power-grid, ai-infrastructure
• La Porte's 1996 High Reliability Theory accepts Perrow's tight-coupling and complexity preconditions but denies they make catastrophic failure inevitable
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-14 · high-reliability-theory, la-porte, normal-accident-theory, charles-perrow, tight-coupling
• La Porte's High Reliability Theory distinguishes technical/physical tight coupling from organizational/social tight coupling
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-14 · high-reliability-theory, la-porte, tight-coupling, organizational-theory, normal-accident-theory