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Issues in Professional Practice: 04 April 2013

This document discusses various issues in professional practice including: - The importance of evaluating courses and instructors online in a timely manner. - Methods for resolving conflicts such as compromise, avoiding conflict, and different modes of handling conflicts. - Ensuring safety and managing risk as an engineer including analyzing risk, communicating risk transparently to clients, and acquiring informed consent. - Methods for risk analysis including failure mode and effects analysis, hazard and operability studies, and failure tree analysis. - The importance of risk communication and obtaining informed consent when introducing new products or processes to society.

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Issues in Professional Practice: 04 April 2013

This document discusses various issues in professional practice including: - The importance of evaluating courses and instructors online in a timely manner. - Methods for resolving conflicts such as compromise, avoiding conflict, and different modes of handling conflicts. - Ensuring safety and managing risk as an engineer including analyzing risk, communicating risk transparently to clients, and acquiring informed consent. - Methods for risk analysis including failure mode and effects analysis, hazard and operability studies, and failure tree analysis. - The importance of risk communication and obtaining informed consent when introducing new products or processes to society.

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ISSUES IN PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE

04 April 2013

ONLINE EVALUATIONS
Please evaluate the
Course & the Instructor
online
ASAP
It is important!!

Conflict Resolution
Safety & Risk

Conflict Resolution
Compromise
Dealing with Conflict

What is Compromise?

Positive connotation

Involves finding agreement


Spirit of mutual agreement
between parties
Flexibility to vary from
stated goals

Negative connotation

Sign of weakness in
conviction
Surrender of ones
objectives and principles

Is Making Compromises
Ethical?

It depends...

Does making compromise involve


betraying ethical principles?

Some compromises involve moral issues


but some not so.

When does a compromise not involve


ethics?

Individual agree on fundamental values


but disagree on application

Engineers agree on transparency in


tendering but disagree on how to
implement it
Decide on an implementation strategy

Individuals disagree on the relative


importance of two different values

Engineers disagree on the importance of


transparency or reliability
Create a synthetic position that addresses
rival values

When does a compromise involve ethics?

When individuals disagree on the same


fundamental value?

Should we compromise on harassment?


Is it ethical to take money from the bank?

Making such a compromise betrays ones


ethical principles and personal integrity.

Is it Ethical to take money from a Bank?

Disagreements on fundamental values


when is it ok?

Yes, under some specific conditions.

If there is a great degree of factual or


conceptual uncertainty
The moral issue has great complexity
there is no black/white answer.
When there is a danger of breaking
cooperative relationships team, friends, or
family.
There is a non-deferrable decision time
constraint
Limited resources require an imperfect
decision resource constraint.

Dealing With Conflict

Personal Modes of Handling Conflict

Individuals deal with conflict &


disagreement very differently

Depends on

Degree of concern about self Assertiveness


Degree to satisfy others concerns Cooperativeness

Awareness about personal mode


provides a pathway to resolve conflicts.

Conflict Handling Modes


5 Modes
Competing
Collaborati
ng
Compromis
ing
Avoiding
Accomodati
ng

Five Modes of Conflict


Handling

Competing

Accomodating

Person avoids conflict situation and does not address it.

Collaborating

Neglects self-interest to consider other persons needs

Avoiding

Individual pursues self-interest at other persons


expense

Works with other person to find a solution to both


persons

Compromising

Partially satisfies both parties

Competing

Avoiding Conflict

Safety, Risk & Public

Safety, Risk & the Public

Safety is the responsibility of Engineers

Ensuring process and product safety

Analyze risk associated with product or


process

Communicate risk transparently to


clients or public

Acquire informed consent of participants.

What is risk? some


definitions

Risk: the probability of an event occurring and of the


consequences of that event.

Risk Assessment: It is the determination of


quantitative value of risk related to a recognized
threat

Risk neutralization: The danger potential of a product


or process may be reduced by safety measures

Zero risk does not exist

Methods of Risk Analysis

Methods of Process Hazards Analysis

Failure Mode, Effects & Criticality Analysis


(FMECA)
Hazard & Operability (HAZOPS)
Job Safety Analysis
Safety Integrity Levels
Hazard Analysis & Critical Control Points
Process Safety Management
Failure Tree Analysis
Event Tree Analysis

Failure Tree Analysis

Failure Tree Analysis identifies, models


and evaluates the unique interrelationship of events leading to failure
or unintended events.
As a tool:

It is used to evaluate complex systems


Identify events that can cause an undesired
event
Used in safety, reliability and accident
investigation

For analysis

Failure Tree Analysis

AIRCRAFTS
AIR
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fish

WATER
TANKER

village

SMOKE

WORKERS
PROCESSES
CHEMICALS
TERRORISTS ?

WILDLIFE

railroad

Risk Communication

What is Risk
Communication?

Risk Communication is the


communication of risk associated with a
technical product or process to the
public.

It is the basis for getting consent from


society for any product or process you
want to introduce.

Risk Perception in society

It is the degree of sentiment of danger


among individuals who are exposed to the
source of risk. It varies depending on

Is risk well known? Is it fair or evenly


distributed?
Is exposure voluntary
Is there real possibility of catastrophy

How to communicate risk?

Communication must be made by


persons in charge and having
information
All stakeholders affected must be
identified and their concerns addressed
Delicate balanced operation informed
decision or hysteria

Informed Consent

Informed Consent based on two aspects

Providing or disclosing Information


Obtaining voluntary agreement

Disclosure Laws - information required by a


reasonable nontechnical person

Voluntary consent is basis of liberal


democracy in a risk society

ONLINE EVALUATIONS
Please evaluate the
Course & the Instructor
online
ASAP
It is important!!

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