SE101 Lecture Notes - Interchangeable Parts, Professional Responsibility, Legal Liability

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Motivations for safety: personal ethics, professional responsibility, regulations and codes, legal liability. Responsibility of the design: engineers are responsible for ensuring designs are safe, failure to act to correct a potentially dangerous situation and failure to follow codes/standards are professional misconduct. Safety concerns: engineers need s to consider safety of: Workers involved in manufacture/fabrication: in some cases, engineers must take into account misuse. Users may have wide variation in abilities. Minimum skill level should not be overrated. Warning labels should be used to deter inappropriate usage. Sources of product liability: express warranty. Written contract stating expected lifetime of product under normal operating conditions: implied warranty. Unwritten contract for products to be free from defects and to provide reasonably safe operation: strict liability. Liability as defined by negligence in r. r. o. Liability established in a court of law. Legal precedents can establish new boundaries for liability. Source control through containing hazard from reaching user.

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