Man-Made Disasters. 2nd ed.

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Man-Made Disasters. 2nd ed.

March 6, 2005

Turner BA, Pidgeon NF. Oxford, UK: Butterworth-Heinemann; 1997.

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For those interested in potential lessons drawn from analyses of major accidents in other industries, this book, originally published in 1978, still provides a number of interesting case studies.

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