诚实:工程职业伦理规范与工程师职业美德的双重诉求

Honesty: A Double Appeal of Engineering Professional Ethics and Professional Virtue of Engineers

因为事关公众的安全、健康和福利,所以在世界范围内的各工程职业伦理章程中都有着相当高的诚实标准,这使得“诚实”成为工程职业伦理规范与工程师职业美德的双重诉求。通过对“福特斑马车油箱事件”的案例分析,为工程具体情境下的工程师如何坚守诚实提供了实践致思方向,即工程师应该发表对公众负责任的专家证言,并在发表的过程中尽量避免可能的伦理陷阱,应用自身的专业知识解释事件发生的因果关系、评估事件中的技术问题;必须通过诚实地报告来表现专业的个人判断,诚实地回答公众的质疑,主动地做他们认为应该做的事,尤其当技术的使用涉及不寻常的或未被察觉的风险的时候。

Because honesty has a great deal to do with the safety,health and welfare of the public,almost all professional ethics regulations throughout the world have proposed high standards concerning“Honesty”,making“Honesty”a dual appeal for engineering professional ethics and engineers’professional virtue.Through the case analysis of the“6·15 Jiujiang Bridge Collapse Accident”happening in Guangdong province in 2007,the paper provides practical ways as to how engineers can be honest in a specific engineering context.First,engineers should provide the accountable testimony to the public as professionals in engineering,trying to avoid possible ethical trap;secondly,they should use their own professional knowledge to explain the causal relationships between the incident and evaluate the technical problems in the incident;thirdly,they should report honestly to represent the professional judgment of the profession,honestly respond the public’s doubts,fourthly,they should actively do what they are supposed to do,especially when the use of technology involves unusual or undetected risks.