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Designing for safety by excluding users is not ideal. Instead, design for responsibility, distributing safety ownership among stakeholders for better risk management and democratic outcomes.

Keywords:
DesignEthicsIndeterminacyNanotechnologyResponsibilityRiskSafe-by-designSafetySafety engineeringSbDSynthetic biologyUncertaintyUsers

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Area of Science:

  • Science and Technology Studies
  • Risk Governance
  • Sociotechnical Systems Design

Background:

  • Safe-by-design (SbD) is gaining traction for emerging technologies like nanotechnology.
  • Existing SbD often overlooks actor behavior and uncertainty, particularly indeterminacy.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the capacity of Safe-by-design (SbD) approaches to manage uncertainty and indeterminacy.
  • To propose an alternative framework for designing safer technologies.

Main Methods:

  • Conceptual analysis of Safe-by-design (SbD) principles.
  • Examination of actor roles and responsibilities in technology safety.
  • Development of design heuristics for responsibility distribution.

Main Results:

  • Designing out users to achieve safety is often counterproductive, limiting risk management and excluding valuable user input.
  • Indeterminacy necessitates a shift from direct safety design to designing for responsibility.

Conclusions:

  • Technologies should be designed to distribute responsibility for safety among value chain actors.
  • Heuristics for sharing and distributing safety responsibility through design are proposed for more robust and democratic technology development.