Accidents / Engineering Accidents in Term Paper

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Another human factor related to this is the fact that engineering tends to be a very specialized field. In general, home and business owners do not have the expertise to discern between quality and lack thereof in engineering.

Indeed, while the quality of cheap engineering may be lower, this is not necessarily to say that expensive work entails higher quality. Some inscrutable engineers may for example use cheap materials for the sake of greater financial gain. The home or business owner is therefore safest when he or she thoroughly investigates the services being used. An engineer with both a good reputation and a price that is not too low should for example provide the best service.

Other factors that play a role in workplace or home accidents are related not as much to engineering as to the specific actions and neglect perpetrated by the users of the material. The human factor for example may entail such neglectful actions as not using safety glasses, ignoring "wet floor" signs, or not thoroughly inspecting rifles to ensure that they are not loaded on a hunting expedition (Elsberry).

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Accidents can also happen as a result of deliberately unsafe practices such as using a cell phone while driving in rush hour traffic.

While cheap engineering is therefore indeed to blame for a large amount of accidents in the workplace or home, it is also true that other factors need to be taken into account. The human factor for example may relate to the urge to save money in engineering matters. Non-engineering related accidents are also often the result of the human factor in terms of neglect, ignoring warning signs, or engaging in unsafe actions.

Rather than cheap engineering itself, I would therefore place a greater part of the blame on the human factor for its role in both engineering and other causes of accidents......

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