Engineering Safety

[coastermaniac]

For my engineering ethics class, we need to wite a paper about public safety geared toward engineering. Some of the questions asked are, "What exactly should engineers' responsibility to the public be (i.e. the social contract)?" and "How is this responsibility related to the legal issues of liabilty and our lawsuit-obsessed society?" I can't seem to find any articles about this topic online and we need references. Any help would be appreciated.

[BeemerBoy]

Like this example involving Toyota?

[coastermaniac]

Kind of. Just more so articles that talk about why engineering safety is so important.