Volume 10, Issue 1, Fall 2006
Technology and Normativity
Sven Ove Hansson
Pages 45-52
Safe Design
Safety is an essential ethical requirement in engineering design. Strategies for safe design are used not only to reduce estimated probabilities of injuries but also to cope with hazards and eventualities that cannot be assigned meaningful probabilities. The notion of safe design has important ethical dimensions, such as that of determining the responsibility that a designer has for future uses (and misuses) of the designed object.