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Risk & Failure
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PUBLISHED GUIDES
Risk & Failure
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Risk & Failure001
Engineering aphorism
Murphy's Law
Failure paths, reliability, and defensive design in complex systems.
Risk & Failure070
Sociotechnical accident theory
Normal Accident Theory
In systems that combine complex interactions with tight coupling, some accidents become difficult to foresee and difficult to stop because unexpected failures propagate faster than operators can understand or isolate them.
Risk & Failure080
Layered-defense accident model
Swiss Cheese Model
Accidents can pass through multiple defensive layers when their active failures and latent weaknesses align.