CODE PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT
Codes of Professional Conduct are defined from the point of view of what constitutes professional misconduct. Professional misconduct means:
1- Negligence, an act or omission in the carrying out of the work of a practitioner that constitutes a failure to maintain the standards that a reasonable and prudent practitioner would maintain in the circumstances,
2- Failure to make reasonable provision for the safeguarding of life, health or property of a person who may be affected by the work for which the practitioner is responsible,
3- Failure to act to correct or report a situation that the practitioner believes may endanger the safety or the welfare of the public,
- failure to make responsible provision for complying with applicable statutes, regulations, standards, codes, by-laws, and rules in connection with work being undertaken by or under the responsibility of the practitioner,
5- Signing or sealing a final drawing, specification, plan, report or other document not actually prepared or checked by the practitioner,
6- failure of a practitioner to present clearly to his/her employer the consequences to be expected from a deviation proposed in work, if the judgement of the practitioner is overruled by non-technical authority in cases where the practitioner is responsible for the technical adequacy of the work;
7- A breach of the Act or By-law, other than an action that is solely a breach of the Code of Ethics, or the Rules of Professional Conduct.
8- Undertaking work the practitioner is not competent to perform by virtue of his/her training and experience,
9- Failure to make prompt, voluntary and complete disclosure of an interest, direct or indirect, that might in any way be, or be construed as, prejudicial to the professional judgement of the practitioner in rendering services to an employer or to a client, and without limiting the generality of the foregoing, carrying out any of the following acts without making such a prior disclosure:
- (a) Accepting compensation in any form for a particular service from more than one party.
- (b) Submitting a tender or acting as a contractor in respect of work upon which the practitioner may be performing as a technology professional.
- (c) Participating in the supply of material or equipment to be used by the employer or client of the practitioner.
- (d) Contracting in the practitioner’s own right to perform engineering technology services for other than the practitioner’s employer.
- Or (e) expressing opinions or making statements concerning matters within the practice of public interest, where the opinions or statements are inspired or paid for by other interests.
10- Conduct or an act relevant to the practice of elevating device technology that, having regard to all the circumstances, would reasonably be regarded by elevating device technology professionals as disgraceful, dishonourable, or unprofessional.