NPPE Topic 2: Professional Practice Part 2 Flashcards
What is sustainable development?
Using recourses (environment, people) in a way that is conducive to being able to make use of them in the long term
Engineer’s duty requires them to ____ environmental law
meet
What does ISO 9001 focus on?
Quality management - ensuring that products and services that an organization produces and delivers are consistently at a high standard and are produced and delivered efficiently
What does ISO 3100 focus on?
Risk management - establishing systems to identify risks and minimize both their chance of occurring and their impact when they do occur
What does ISO 14000 focus on?
Environmental management - a set of strategies for organizations to eliminate pollution in all of its forms, quantify the effect on the environment, and ensure that they are complying with relevant environmental standards
Engineers are required to ____ of data produced by software packages
Verify the reasonableness (need to conduct a reasonable amount of sense checks to confirm that the software solutions are reasonable).
Can professionals writing software be responsible for negligent errors made by softwares?
Yes
When are engineers required to seal work?
Engineering work that is issued to the public
Is it professional misconduct to seal something you didn’t actually prepare or check?
Yes
What does a seal mean?
That the documents were competently prepared by an engineer
The seal needs to be accompanied by:
A signature and date
Can you seal work done by others?
Yes, for subordinates or people you’re collaborating with, but only if you have intimate knowledge of the work and control over it
Can an external authority require you to seal a document?
No, the engineer assesses if something involves the practice of professional engineering done for the public
Does the seal expire?
No
Paper sealing SOP
copy the document to be sealed then seal the copy
What is whistleblowing?
Exposing (publicly or to a client or regulatory agency) the secret illegal or secret unethical actions of your employer or fellow employees
When would engineers need to whistleblow?
If necessary to maintain the safety & welfare of the public unless time allows to resolve things with your employer
Levels of escalation when it comes to whistleblowing:
- solving the problem yourself or having a friendly conversation with the one responsible
- Going to higher management with the concern
- Going to top management with the concern
- Going to the relevant government authorities
Whistleblower protection is converted under the:
Criminal Code of Canada, public servants disclosure acts, securities act
Whistleblower protection provisions under the Criminal Code of Canada
- No person of authority over the employee can take or threaten disciplinary measures/demote/termination to prevent whistleblowing OR as punishment
- Failing above will lead in punishment (fines or imprisonment)
Rule of contra proferentem
Where a contract is ambiguous, it’s interpreted against the party who wrote that part
