Conditions for Whistle-Blowing to be an Engineers Ethical Responsibility

5 CONDITIONS FOR WHISTLE-BLOWING TO BE AN ENGINEER S ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITY 

For an engineer to have an ethical responsibility to blow the whistle to try to prevent harm likely to be caused by her/his work, work with which s/he is involved, or work about which s/he is technically knowledgeable, five conditions must be satisfied. First, the projected harm linked to the engineering work in question must be serious in nature and substantial in magnitude. Second, the engineer must have brought the harm in question to the attention of her/his immediate supervisor and that supervisor s immediate superior. Third, the engineer must not have received a response from either of those parties that promises to lead to prevention (or prevention of the repetition) of the harm in question. Fourth, the 

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