Ethics

Question 1

Give the Engineers Ireland attributes

Answer 1

1. Understand environmental, social, and economic impact of decisions & promote sustainable development practices
2. Act with honesty, integrity, and objectivity
3. Understand importance of equality, diversity, and inclusion & their impact
4. Understand and commit to ethical usage of tech and data
5. Understand health, safety, cultural and risk issues & legal requirements

Question 2

What are the basic tenets of the EI code?

Answer 2

1. Members must act at all times with fairness, courtesy and good faith toward all persons with whom the member has professional dealings, and in accordance with the public good.
2. A member’s obligations to the client can never override their responsibility to the public good, and members of EI should not enter undertakings which compromise this responsibility.
3. Members must uphold the values of truth, honest and trustworthiness and safeguard human life and welfare and the environment.

Question 3

What are the first three bullet points of the EI ethics code?

Answer 3

1. hold paramount

a. safety, health and welfare of the public
b. protection of the environment
c. promotion of health and safety in the workplace.

2. Carry out work with all reasonable skill, care and diligence. Practice only in fields where the engineer is professionally competent
3. Have regard for the substance and intent of current national, EU and other legislation relevant to their field in engineering.

Question 4

Bullet points 4-6

Answer 4

4. Maintain competence in the necessary standards applicable to one’s field in engineering; advances in tech developments

Encourage other engineering professionals to do so as well

5. Provide accurate information in respect of qualifications and experience
6. Provide professional opinions that distinguish between facts, assumptions and opinions

Question 5

Bullet points 7-9

Answer 5

7. x
8. Report to EI or appropriate authority if:

a.) continued practice by another member might pose a risk of harm to the environment or health or safety to a group of people

b.) member made decisions/enganged in practiced which may be illegal or unethical

9. Communicate courteous, timely and professional manner and seperately:

Present clearly to employers and clients the possible consequences if professional decisions or judgements are overrules or disregarded.

Question 6

Bulletpoints 10-11

Answer 6

10. Identify each engineering who contributed professional work, including recommendations, reports, statements or opinion and accept, honest and fair professional comment
11. Maintain high standards of conduct and behavior and uphold the reputation and standing of the profession
12. Conduct themselves with honest and integrity and with fairness, courtesy, and good faith towards clients, colleagues, and others.

Question 7

What is ethics?

Answer 7

Moral principles that govern a person’s behaviour or the conducting of an activity

i.e. well founded standards of right and wrong