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    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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    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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    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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