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Ethical issues in engineering design
is due to the change from national to European legislation and this may be
resolved within a few years time. Other problems arise as a result of a lack of
experience with and interpretation of, the PED. For example, the problem of who
should apply for the CE mark requires legal interpretation. These problems will
be resolved within some time. Other problems are more difficult. Notified
Bodies are not allowed to check the risk analysis provided by engineering
companies. This means that engineers can decide on accident scenarios without
guidelines or control on these decisions. This does not mean that engineers will
immediately try to set very low standards but they may be pushed by customers
only to consider some accident scenarios. From a moral point of view, the main
problem with the regulative framework would probably be that it is not accepted
and this is something that is not easily resolved. I will come back on this point in
chapter 9.
5.6 Acknowledgements
I would like to thank the engineers at Jacobs Engineering, Lloyd’s Register
Stoomwezen, Ger Küpers and Nancy Kuipers for the information provided by
them.
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