The public does have special expectations of technical people. Engineers, designers, and other technically trained people do have special responsibilities to the rest of society with respect to personal safety.
Society invests in the training and professional development of technical people.
Concomitantly, society invests with the professions and their institutions certain trusts, among them a trust that the professions will watch over the well-being of society, including its safety. Professional responsibility is based on the belief that the power conferred by expertise entails a fiduciary relationship to society. Basic elements of product safety programming are designed to identify and evaluate potential product hazards for systematic control using the techniques of safety management and safety engineering. A clear, explicit, and documented statement of product safety policy. A clear, explicit, and documented assignment of individual responsibility for conducting product safety activity.