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Module 1 - Railway Safety Engineering - Ethics of Safety 2

This document provides an overview of ethics in railway safety engineering. It discusses key topics like the definition of ethics, ethical obligations of safety professionals, the duty of care, and the differences between ethics and legal liability. The objectives are to help students understand moral principles that guide conduct in safety, obligations like integrity and leadership, and that an ethical approach focuses on harm reduction rather than blame. It promotes a no blame culture and shared responsibility in safety.

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Module 1 - Railway Safety Engineering - Ethics of Safety 2

This document provides an overview of ethics in railway safety engineering. It discusses key topics like the definition of ethics, ethical obligations of safety professionals, the duty of care, and the differences between ethics and legal liability. The objectives are to help students understand moral principles that guide conduct in safety, obligations like integrity and leadership, and that an ethical approach focuses on harm reduction rather than blame. It promotes a no blame culture and shared responsibility in safety.

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Railway Safety Engineering

Module 1 : Ethics of Safety


Learning Objectives
At the end of the activity the student
will be able to learn below topics:
• What are Ethics?
• The Ethical Obligations
• The Duty of Care
• Ethics vs Legal Liability
• Ethical Responses
What are Ethics?
What are Ethics?
• Moral principles that guide our conduct.
• Cover a wide range of disciplines.
• Focus on ethics of safety.
The Ethical
Obligations
The Ethical Obligations
• Demonstrate Integrity
• Practice Competently
• Exercise Leadership
• Promote Sustainability
ETHICS OF SAFETY
SHARED RESPONSIBILITY
Duty of Care
No Blame Culture
• Blame is a barrier to duty of care.
• Fault finding rather than a systematic
approach.
• Blame undermines ethical practice.
Ethical vs
Legal Liability
ETHICAL VS LEGAL LIABILITY
Ethical
Responses
Ethical Responses
• Will I create new or greater risk?
• Will I allow risk to continue unmitigated?
• Will I allow the greatest net benefit in harm reduction?
End of
Presentation

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