Company Aria manufactures engines for newly designed airplanes. Aria recently signed a contract with an aircraft manufac
Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2022 12:15 pm
Company Aria manufactures engines for newly designed airplanes.
Aria recently signed a contract with an aircraft manufacturer Bocha
and Aria will supply the engines to Bocha and guarantee that the
engine will produce 50 Megawatts of power. In addition to supplying
the engine, Aria is also responsible to provide technical advice
and on-site support during the start-up, testing and commissioning
of the engine. In addition, Bocha hired another company Calaris, a
separate component manufacturer, to construct other subsystems
relating to the engine and install the engine supplied by Aria.
Three months later, Calaris installed the engine and is now ready
to run tests to ensure the proper operation of the engine with
other parts of the aircraft and also produce the specified power.
Aria sent one of its experienced professional engineering
staff, Sam, to the site to witness the tests and to provide
technical advice to Calaris. At the site, Sam discovered that many
Calaris workers were carrying out work in an unsafe manner without
hardhats, eye protection or safety shoes. In fact, Sam realized
that Calaris had not established any safety procedures for their
own staff. Furthermore, during the testing by Calaris, Sam noticed
that Calaris staff did not conduct the tests in complete compliance
with the official testing procedures that were established for the
project. According to their testing procedures, the engine achieved
the guaranteed power of 50 Megawatts. In reality, however, the
engine only produced 48 Megawatts of power. Sam realized that if
they did conduct the test properly, the engine’s reduced power
output will be revealed. Sam was concerned that Aria, under the
contract, will need to financially compensate Bocha as a result of
the output power deficiency. Sam did not tell anyone about the
problems with the testing procedures and nobody noticed the
problems anyways.
a) What are Sam’s professional misconducts in this situation? (8
marks)
b) Given that the unsafe practices involved work by Calaris
workers, but not his own company Aria, what duties, if any, does
Sam have for the potential dangers to Calaris workers? (10
marks)
Aria recently signed a contract with an aircraft manufacturer Bocha
and Aria will supply the engines to Bocha and guarantee that the
engine will produce 50 Megawatts of power. In addition to supplying
the engine, Aria is also responsible to provide technical advice
and on-site support during the start-up, testing and commissioning
of the engine. In addition, Bocha hired another company Calaris, a
separate component manufacturer, to construct other subsystems
relating to the engine and install the engine supplied by Aria.
Three months later, Calaris installed the engine and is now ready
to run tests to ensure the proper operation of the engine with
other parts of the aircraft and also produce the specified power.
Aria sent one of its experienced professional engineering
staff, Sam, to the site to witness the tests and to provide
technical advice to Calaris. At the site, Sam discovered that many
Calaris workers were carrying out work in an unsafe manner without
hardhats, eye protection or safety shoes. In fact, Sam realized
that Calaris had not established any safety procedures for their
own staff. Furthermore, during the testing by Calaris, Sam noticed
that Calaris staff did not conduct the tests in complete compliance
with the official testing procedures that were established for the
project. According to their testing procedures, the engine achieved
the guaranteed power of 50 Megawatts. In reality, however, the
engine only produced 48 Megawatts of power. Sam realized that if
they did conduct the test properly, the engine’s reduced power
output will be revealed. Sam was concerned that Aria, under the
contract, will need to financially compensate Bocha as a result of
the output power deficiency. Sam did not tell anyone about the
problems with the testing procedures and nobody noticed the
problems anyways.
a) What are Sam’s professional misconducts in this situation? (8
marks)
b) Given that the unsafe practices involved work by Calaris
workers, but not his own company Aria, what duties, if any, does
Sam have for the potential dangers to Calaris workers? (10
marks)