CASE 13.2 How Safe Is Safe? Perfect Plastics Incorporated (PPI) is a small injec

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CASE 13.2 How Safe Is Safe? Perfect Plastics Incorporated (PPI) is a small injection molding plastics com- pany that employs 50 people. The company is 10 years old, has a healthy balance sheet, and does about $4 million a year in sales. The company has a good safety record, and the insurance company that has PPl's liability policy has not had to pay any claims to employees for several years. There have been no major injuries of any kind since the company began. Tom Griffin, the owner, takes great pride in the interior design and work lit.jt X2itliittyiti a91. 1; 2 tdcyariksesi the inuksrinar ayf tlt: Bilsinit ani istins3 liks a hospital compared with his competitors. Order, efficiency, and cleanli- ness are top priorities at PPl. It is a remarkably well-organized manufac- turing company. PPl has a unique approach to guaranteeing safe working conditions. Each year, management brings in outside consultants from the insurance indus- try and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to audit (Continued)

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1. Yes, PPI has an identifiable philosophy of moral values. The policies that are placed in the company allow them to be able to create a safer working environment for both the workers and create an environment that is secure and without the working risks for the insurance partners. They value their worker's safety over the problems that are presented with outside audits which shows that the company follows a moral philosophy and ethical standards.

2. PPI follows a virtue-based ethical approach. This means that the company does what it does keeping in mind the ethical implication of their dealings with the workers while they are not duty bound to do so. This, combined with the fact that outside audits are conducted which threatens the integrity of the firm's private data yet, PPI still allows it shows that they do not follow the utilitarian approach as they do not care about their personal gains in the matter as much as the safety of their workers.

3. The management sees the safety of employees as their topmost priority and takes necessary precautions and steps to ensure it while the attorneys feel that the outside help creates a liability for the company in the matters of legal importance.

4. The ethics of PPI and their attornies are in conflict because they follow a different approach. While PPI is employee-centric in the decisions that they make, the attorneys care less the workers and more about the legal issues and liabilities of the system that PPI follows for future cases.

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