People die all the time because things for buildings are changed "in production". It's common for the builder (or supplier... the people in charge of taking the engineers plans and actually building the thing) to swap out parts at their own discretion. And there's tons of stories of lots of people dying because of it.
There's also stories of architects designing buildings using "new and interesting techniques" with little to no testing. There's a story of one building that was lighting things across the street on fire because it was basically a big parabolic mirror.
And.. well.. the Boeing 737 Max.
So sure, engineers and related jobs are _better_ about it, but they're certainly not perfect. The still do stupid things. It's just less likely because the fields have been around for a long time and there's been time to learn the right ways to do things... and to learn the things that get people killed.
As the expression goes, regulations are written in blood... because new regulations come about when people die because of a gap.
There's also stories of architects designing buildings using "new and interesting techniques" with little to no testing. There's a story of one building that was lighting things across the street on fire because it was basically a big parabolic mirror.
And.. well.. the Boeing 737 Max.
So sure, engineers and related jobs are _better_ about it, but they're certainly not perfect. The still do stupid things. It's just less likely because the fields have been around for a long time and there's been time to learn the right ways to do things... and to learn the things that get people killed.
As the expression goes, regulations are written in blood... because new regulations come about when people die because of a gap.