This area of business ethics deals with the duties of a company to ensure that products and production processes do not cause harm. Some of the more acute dilemmas in this area arise out of the fact that there is usually a degree of danger in any product or production process and it is difficult to define a degree of permissibility, or the degree of permissibility may depend on the changing state of preventative technologies or changing social perceptions of acceptable risk.

These production business ethics often deal with defective, addictive or inherently dangerous products and services (e.g. tobacco, alcohol, weapons, motor vehicles, chemical manufacturing). Along with the ethical relations between the company and the environment such as pollution and other environmental ethics issues.

Tags: Ethics of Production, Environmental Ethics, Production Business Ethics, Ethics, Social Ethics, Current Ethical Practices