Safe by Design Regulation for Academic Experimentation and Value Conflicts: An Exploration of Solution Directions.

Georgy Ishmaev,Dick Hoeneveld,Pieter Van Gelder,Pieter E Vermaas

doi:10.3390/ijerph18041554

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Abstract

In this paper, we explore solution directions for the implementation of Safe by Design (SbD) in safety regimes for academic experimentation. SbD is a dynamic and anticipatory strategy for safety regulation in academic research. In this strategy, safety is taken in a broader sense including not only issues of technical precaution of avoiding risks of experimentation but also the societal responsibility of researchers and research institutes of identifying possible future risks. In our research, we have interviewed academic researchers from different disciplines and university support personnel about the factors that enable and limit the possibilities of researchers to implement SbD in safety regimes for experimentation. We articulate our findings in terms of a core set of research values and in terms of conflicts between safety and these research values. And we argue that tools for resolving value conflicts as originating in design for values research can provide directions to solve the value conflicts, and thus help academic researchers to adopt SbD in their experimentation.

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In this paper, we explore solution directions for the implementation of Safe by Design (SbD)
Practical tools for the resolution of value conflicts in the applied and fundamental research is an emerging area of research. We chose this particular approach from the ethics of engineering, as we consider it to be one of the most developed accounts to date, both in terms of theoretical rigour and successful applications. We argue that these tools can help academic researchers to adopt SbD in their experimentation by providing solution directions to resolving the value conflicts in SbD
For a better understanding of this impact, we focused on safety management regimes; we made an inventory of other regimes such as Human Resources (HR), Facility Management (FM) and finance regimes, but outcomes were used only as an information source for the safety management regimes

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We explore solution directions for the implementation of Safe by Design (SbD). SbD is a dynamic and anticipatory strategy for safety regulation in academic research. In this strategy, safety is taken in a broader sense including issues of technical precaution of avoiding risks of experimentation and the societal responsibility of researchers and research institutes of identifying possible future risks. We have interviewed academic researchers from different disciplines and university support personnel about the factors that enable and limit the possibilities of researchers to implement SbD in safety regimes for experimentation. We argue that tools for resolving value conflicts as originating in design for values research can provide directions to solve the value conflicts, and help academic researchers to adopt SbD in their experimentation

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