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17. Human Safety and Public-Interest Primacy
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Protection of human life, health, dignity, accessibility, and public welfare shall take priority over cost, speed, production volume, automation, convenience, commercial interest, and technical novelty.
Rules shall consider the safety of:
- Occupants.
- Workers.
- Installers.
- Inspectors.
- Maintenance personnel.
- Emergency responders.
- Robotic-system operators.
- Surrounding communities.
- Future users and owners.
- Vulnerable populations.
No affordability, sustainability, circularity, AI, or robotics claim shall justify transferring unacceptable risk to people.
When safety conflicts with another objective, the decision shall consider:
- Severity and probability of harm.
- Exposure duration.
- Detectability.
- Reversibility.
- Available protective measures.
- Effects on vulnerable users.
- Short- and long-term consequences.
- Risk transferred to other lifecycle stages or communities.
- Safety claims shall be supported by evidence appropriate to the consequence of failure.
Where evidence is insufficient, uncertainty shall remain visible and authority shall default to controlled, restricted, or fail-safe operation rather than unsupported approval.