Dave Cuthbert wrote >> EMC ethics issues are frequently posted. They are generally along the lines of skirting government regulations, being pressured by management to pass something, and stories about unnamed EMC houses that are suspect. Safety issues also come up from time to time. EMC and safety engineers are sometimes caught in the middle and need a way to make the <<
We need to BE ethical and that is perhaps different from discussing it. >From an old Dilbert strip: "You can't have compliance without 'liance'." When managers think compliance consists of abusing the system and then pleading competitive disadvantage (everyone ELSE does it, Mommy!), it is almost inevitable we would from time to time have ethical conflicts. Dealing with the people who cause them may be an art in itself. I've suggested that some future Symposium needs to include a block on how to get decision-makers to do the right thing. Not what the right thing is, mind; that's in the technical and regulatory sessions; *how to convince them to do it*. Without, so to speak, falling on our swords. That too is ethics, and do we wall it off from what we do for a living? I think we can't. Cortland Richmond This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to [email protected] Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/listserv/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas [email protected] Mike Cantwell [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] Jim Bacher: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc
