A review on the concept of engineering ethics and social responsibility of engineering consultants towards sustainable development

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Engineering Ethics & Social
Responsibility
Role of Engineers in HSE Sustainable Development
WPC Expert Workshop | 29 & 30, April, 2019

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Agenda
• What is Ethics?
• Ethics and Sustainability
• Stakeholder View VS. Shareholder View
• Stakeholder View in Real Context
• Stakeholder View and Sustainability

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What is Ethics?
Moral principles that govern a person's
behavior or the conducting of an activity.
What you
decide to do
What you are
able to do
What you
imagine to do

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Ethics and Sustainability
As engineers have impact
• on human lives
• on society
• on well being of there beings
What you
decide to do
From the perspective of ethics,
sustainable development is more
of a moral choice for an engineer

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Concept of Sustainability
Sustainability: Meeting the needs of the present
without compromising the ability of future
generations to meet their needs.

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Concept of Sustainability
Sustainable development :
• meeting human development goals while at the same time
sustaining the ability of natural systems to provide the natural
resources and ecosystem services upon which the economy and
society depend.

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Ethics and Social Responsibility
o Oil and Gas engineers play a role in sustainable
development through:
o Better designs for the new assets to reduce energy and feed consumption
and pollution.
o Improving existing assets by applying new technologies and modifying the
current facilities to have higher outputs with less inputs, safer operation
and less environmental impacts.
o Resolving operational issues and bottlenecks to increase the profitability,
environmental friendliness and improves social well being.

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Ethics and Social Responsibility

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Shareholder VS. Stakeholder View
• Shareholder is the one who has direct profit in the
project
• Stakeholder is who impacts/is impacted to/by project
• The strength of stakeholders has made a paradigm shift
towards paying attention to stakeholders

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Shareholder VS. Stakeholder View
• Real case to understand stakeholders’ power

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Best Practice Model

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Society as a Key Stakeholder
• Society is the main key
stakeholder to any project
• From stakeholder view
perspective, sustainable
development is a response to
the need of one the most
critical stakeholders of the
project

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Conclusion
• Engineers play a vital role in
sustainable development.
• From Stakeholder perspective
if the society is powerful and
alert, then sustainability is
what an engineer should take
into account.

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Conclusion
• Engineers play a vital role in
sustainable development.
• Even if the society is not
powerful and alert, then
engineering ethics and
business morality dictates the
engineers to consider
sustainability principles.

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And Remember…
• We, as human beings have been destructive to this planet, its
species, and also other human beings.
• Sustainability is not about being natural and human
• Sustainability is about being better than human beings
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