hopkins

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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 reads Perrow's 1994 garbage-can and power arguments as replacing Normal Accident Theory rather than enhancing it

claim seedling Tier 2 2026-09-24 · charles-perrow, normal-accident-theory, garbage-can-theory, hopkins, interpretation
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