Live support chatEngineering Ethics for Illinois Engineers: Social Responsibility vs. Legal Liability
In Engineering Ethics: Social Responsibility vs. Legal Liability, you'll learn ...
- The dangers of excavation work and the methods used to prevent trench collapses
- Why the engineer's legal and moral responsibilities don't necessarily end when design deliverables are issued
- The ethical considerations of social responsibility versus legal liability
Overview
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Credit: 1 PDH
Length: 14 pages
As many as 300 Americans die each year from trench collapses. Although safety measures are available to prevent most of these deaths, regulations do not always mandate the use of the most effective, and perhaps more expensive, measures. This topic is the basis for an interesting case study involving the ethics of making cost versus safety tradeoffs.
This course looks at how trenching, one of the oldest types of construction work documented in history, has become the subject for an ethical debate on social responsibility versus legal liability. In completing the course, the reader is challenged to form his or her own opinion about the ethical questions of this case with the help of opinions quoted from the work of several engineering ethics scholars.
Specific Knowledge or Skill Obtained
This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:
- A brief history of trench digging and the use of trench boxes
- The engineer's responsibility once the design is handed over to a contractor
- The role of the engineer vs. the contractor in ensuring the proper use of trench support systems
- A review of the engineer's social responsibility for public safety
- The relevance of social and legal concerns to the ethical use of trench boxes
Certificate of Completion
You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a multiple-choice quiz consisting of 10 questions. PDH credits are not awarded until the course is completed and quiz is passed.
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Preview a portion of this course before purchasing it.
Credit: 1 PDH
Length: 14 pages
