Section 5 - Advocacy

Question 1

What does the code of ethics say about advocacy?

Answer 1

Responsibility to th public is to Advocate good forest stewardship, work to improve practices and policies affecting stewardship, and extend public knowledge while promoting truthful statements of forestry matters.

Question 2

How is advocacy protected by the foresters act?

Answer 2

Makes it an offense to take action against members who excersize professional judgement or independence, or who make a complaint or report on others

Question 3

What object of the association involved advocacy?

Answer 3

The objective to advocate for and uphold good forest stewarship principles,

Question 4

Standards for professional practice give a practical guide to what principles? (6)

Answer 4

Competence, independence, integrity, due diligence, stewardship, safety

Question 5

What is the purpose of having standards of professional practice?

Answer 5

Satisfy the ojectives of abcfp, increase confidence in professional work and professional independence, illuminate areas of needed improvement, justify training opportunities, assess quality, monitor enrolled member progress.

Question 6

What qualities are necessary in a standard for professional practice? (8)

Answer 6

Proactive, clear, achievable, useful, applicable, measurable, enforceable, timeless

Question 7

What are the three essential components of competence?

Answer 7

Knowledge, correctness and completeness, and professional care

Question 8

What are things a member can do to increase competence?

Answer 8

Continuing education, current readings, discussion groups, mentors and peer engagement, share knowledge and expertise

Question 9

Summarize the completeness and correctness standard. (Bylaw 12. 2.2)

Answer 9

Work must be essentially error and ommission free proving and all encompassing, relevant, clear and legally feasable. If needed, supported with a relevant rationale.

Question 10

What is professional care?

Answer 10

The degree of care required to prevent an undesirable outcome, what a prudent professional would do under the same circumstances.

Question 11

How can work be measurable or verifiable?

Answer 11

Identifies end result specifically, with specific ways to measure a realistic outcome.

Question 12

What is professional independence?

Answer 12

Demonstrated by an objective application of professional judgement and expert knowledge. It means being impartial and intellectually honest.

Question 13

What must members be independent from? (4)

Answer 13

Employer or client, special interest groups, majority groups, personal bias.

Question 14

What is professional integrity?

Answer 14

Dignity and mannerly respect for all persons, acting in accordance with all professional standards

Question 15

What is due diligence?

Answer 15

Taking and documenting all necessary steps to ensure a desired outcome is achieved and chances of negative one is minimized.

Question 16

What are ways to satisfy oneself that due diligence has been achieved?

Answer 16

Legal requirements met, clear jnderstanding of objectives, personally familiar with areas affected by work, background info gathered and incorporated, risk assessements done, work by others sound and all is documented

Question 17

How is safety addressed in the code of ethics?

Answer 17

Specifies that it is the responsibility of the member to the public to have proper regard in all work for the safety of others.

Question 18

What is advocacy and how is it involved with abcfp?

Answer 18

Advocacy is the act of speaking or writing in support of something and abcfp has an advocacy mandate members have advocacy obligations.