Professional Ethics & Human Values
Liability
Buyer beware Examine what you want before you buy If he is negligent, he suffers the…
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Professional Ethics & Human Values
Examples of Improved Safety
Magnetic door catch introduced on refrigerators Prevent death by asphyxiation of children accidentally trapped inside The…
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Difficulties in establishing Safeguards
Incomplete knowledge of the engineering subject Refusal to face hard questions caused by lack of knowledge …
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Accounting publicly for benefits and risks
Engineers should account publicly for benefits and risks in the following manner: Engineers must remain as objective as…
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Public Risk and Public Acceptance
Risks and benefits to public are more easily determined than to individuals National Highway Traffic Safety Administration…
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Difficulties in assessing Personal Risks
• Individuals are ready to assume voluntary risks than involuntary risks. • The difficulty here is generally in assessing personal risks which are involuntary. • The problem of quantification of risk raises innumerable problems. • For example, how to assign a rupee value to one’s life. There is no over the counter trade in lives. • Even for a sale, it has to be clear under what conditions the sale is to take place. • If one buys a kg of rice it matters whether it is just one additional purchase one makes Regularly or it is the first rice purchase after quite sometime. • Even when compensations are made to people exposed to involuntary risk, the basis on which it is made or even the intensity of risk could be different for different people. • As of now, the one suggestion could be to employ an open procedure, overseen b y trained arbiters, in each case, where risk to individuals is to be studied and remedied.
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Conceptual difficulties in Risk-Benefit Analysis
Both risks and benefits lie in future heavy discounting of future because the very low present values of…
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Risk Benefit Analysis
Ethical Implications When is someone entitled to impose a risk on another in view of a supposed benefit…
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Failure modes and effect analysis (FMEA)
This approach systematically examines the failure modes of each component, without however, focusing on relationships among the elements of a complex system. Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) A system failure is proposed and then events are traced back to possible causes at the component level. The reverse of the fault-tree analysis is ‘event – tree analysis’. This method most effectively illustrates the disciplined approach required to capture as much as possible of everything that affects proper functioning and safety of a complex system.
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Testing strategies for safety
Some commonly used testing methods: Using the past experience in checking the design and performance. Prototype testing. Here …
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