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Unsure if this is the correct forum for this topic, but was unable to find any threads specifically about the ethics side of it.
I am currently in the position to qualify for the P.Eng. However, I've already been in numerous situations where poor technical decisions have resulted in 'near misses' that have put sailors in harms way unnecessarily while I was going through the training system. I'm concerned if I do I may end up in a situation where the P.Eng ethics directly conflict with military requirements.
I fully expect to continue to get in trouble for calling people on their BS (ie making assumptions but never verifying them, and not revisiting the decision once the assumption was shown to be wrong, or issuing safety certificates without making any effort to check known defects were corrected), but not sure if that if I get my P.Eng, does this create any additional complications wrt reporting things to civilian authorities.
Some of it may relate to poor practice (like running kit until it completely fails, because you don't get a replacement otherwise, or making decisions first then validating them after the fact using crap assumptions while ignoring other things), but generally unimpressed by the lack of application of 'best engineering practice' or even basic decision making, as well as the lack of basic competence of some of my peers.
Has anyone dealt with this issue in the military or otherwise?
In a related note, can anyone offer advice on how to best approach a scenario like this, where operational CoC requirements conflict with the technical requirements from the related engineering branch (CFTOs etc). Aside from the obvious career impacts, don't think it helps anyone to get fired from a position and hope I'm not replaced with a yes man rather then try and manage a bad idea as safely as possible and mitigate where possible.
I am currently in the position to qualify for the P.Eng. However, I've already been in numerous situations where poor technical decisions have resulted in 'near misses' that have put sailors in harms way unnecessarily while I was going through the training system. I'm concerned if I do I may end up in a situation where the P.Eng ethics directly conflict with military requirements.
I fully expect to continue to get in trouble for calling people on their BS (ie making assumptions but never verifying them, and not revisiting the decision once the assumption was shown to be wrong, or issuing safety certificates without making any effort to check known defects were corrected), but not sure if that if I get my P.Eng, does this create any additional complications wrt reporting things to civilian authorities.
Some of it may relate to poor practice (like running kit until it completely fails, because you don't get a replacement otherwise, or making decisions first then validating them after the fact using crap assumptions while ignoring other things), but generally unimpressed by the lack of application of 'best engineering practice' or even basic decision making, as well as the lack of basic competence of some of my peers.
Has anyone dealt with this issue in the military or otherwise?
In a related note, can anyone offer advice on how to best approach a scenario like this, where operational CoC requirements conflict with the technical requirements from the related engineering branch (CFTOs etc). Aside from the obvious career impacts, don't think it helps anyone to get fired from a position and hope I'm not replaced with a yes man rather then try and manage a bad idea as safely as possible and mitigate where possible.