Review engineering safety decisions
engineering-ethicsskillsetup L1★64
Tibsfox/gsd-skill-creator ↗What it does
Apply professional ethics to safety-critical engineering decisions
Best for
Supporting engineers in dissenting against unsafe designs when management disagrees
Inputs
- · Proposed design
- · Known risks
- · Stakeholder pressures
- · Engineering standards
Outputs
- · Risk assessment
- · Ethical decision framework
- · Dissent documentation
Requires
- · NSPE Code of Ethics
- · Case study library
- · Failure analysis database
Preconditions
- · Engineering judgment needed
- · Safety implications present
Failure modes
- · Organizational pressure overrides safety (Challenger)
- · Normalization of deviance (Columbia)
- · Delayed response to known risk
Trust signals
- · NSPE Code of Ethics Canon 1 cited
- · Challenger/Columbia/Therac-25 case studies
- · Whistleblower support framework
- · Iron Ring tradition explained