Professional ethnocentrism and ethical risk management efficacy: How engineer’s emotional openness mediates this complex relationship

This paper puts forward a simple idea describing the time, space and relationship scales of survival. The proposed survival spectrum concept represents a new way to think about sustainability that has clear implications for influencing engineering projects in all fields. The argument for the survival spectrum is developed sequentially, building on theory, definition, examples and history. The key idea is that sustainability can be effectively addressed by emergence of a new field, Transition Engineering. This is a parallel of safety engineering but with longer time scale, broader space scale, and more complex relationship scale. The past 100-year development of safety engineering is examined as a model for development of sustainability risk management and mitigation. The conclusion is that the new field, Transition Engineering, will emerge as the way our society will realize reduction in fossil fuel use and reduction in the detrimental social and environmental impacts of industrialization.

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EMPOWERING ENGINEERING STUDENTS IN ETHICAL RISK MANAGEMENT

Proceedings of the Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA) ◽

10.24908/pceea.v0i0.6922 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Yoann Guntzburger

Keyword(s):

Risk Management ◽

Engineering Education ◽

Professional Training ◽

Engineering Students ◽

Grand Challenge ◽

Innovative Method ◽

Short Run ◽

Self Knowledge ◽

Group Interviews ◽

Ethical Risk Management

The purpose of our study is to assess to what extent engineers are empowered by their professional training to engage in ethical risk management. Using the concept of self-efficacy and the results from a questionnaire answered by 200 engineering students, we suggest that the present engineering education fails to induce such empowerment.We therefore propose an innovative method to help in this matter. Carried out through workshops with 34 students, the efficiency of this method has been evaluated using group interviews and questionnaires. Our results suggest that such an approach is efficient, at least in the short run, to motivate students to engage in ethical risk management. Maybe more importantly, it triggers reflectivity on what it means to be an engineer today, a first step in engaging into the ultimate Grand Challenge of self-knowledge.

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Legal and Ethical Risk Management with Behavioral Emergencies

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199352722.013.39 ◽

2015 ◽

Author(s):

Dana Lockwood ◽

Houri Parsi ◽

Wendy Packman ◽

Bruce Bongar

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Risk Management ◽

Mental Health Professionals ◽

Health Professionals ◽

Standard Of Care ◽

Treatment Providers ◽

Behavioral Emergencies ◽

Ethical Risk Management

Working with patients presenting with serious harm to themselves or others is an experience many mental health professionals will have during their careers. The possibility of working with this population might cause some apprehension for treatment providers because of the patient and professional risks involved. In this chapter we review the applicable legal theories of professional negligence and focus on the potential legal and professional ramifications that occur when mental health professionals do not rise to the applicable standard of care when working with suicidal or aggressive patients. Additionally, this chapter provides an outline of the legally imposed duties that treatment providers have to their patients so as to promote effective and ethical treatment of those presenting with the possibility of serious harm to themselves and others.

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