Topic 2 Flashcards
Important to professional ethics is the _______________ the professional brings to the structure in which he operates, and that shapes his approach to problems.
Moral Disposition
Professional’s approaches to responsibility
- Minimalist Approach
-doing little to stay out of trouble, keep one’s job - Attitudes and disposition
-doing things above and beyond the call of duty requires.
What is code of ethics?
-requires works that conforms with “applicable engineering standards”
-insists that engineers conforms to standards of competence
What is regulatory standard or standards of competence?
-intended to provide assurance of quality, safety, and efficiency in engineering
-gives considerable room for professional discretion
State two Fundamental Principles of CE Ethics
- Using their knowledge and skill for the enhancement of human welfare and environment
- Being honest and impartial and serving with fidelity the public, their employers/employees and clients
- Striving to increase the competence and prestige of the CE profession
- Supporting the professional and technical societies of their disciplines
State Two Fundamental Canons of CE Ethics
- Civil Engineers shall hold paramount the safety, health and welfare of the public
- Civil Engineers shall perform services only in areas of their competence.
- CE shall issue public statements only in an objective and truthful manner.
- CE shall act in professional matters and shall avoid conflicts of interest.
- CE shall build their professional reputation and shall not compete unfairly with others.
- CE shall uphold and enhance the honor, integrity and dignity of the profession.
- CE shall continue their professional development throughout their careers.
It is the product of collective reflection of members of one particular professional society of engineers
Civil Engineering Code of Ethics
Conceptions of Responsibility
- Forward-Looking
-obligation responsibility - Backward-looking
-blame responsibility
According to Joshua Kardon, ___________ of a professional is ; that level or quality of service ordinarily provided by other normally competent practitioners, contemporaneously providing similar services in the same locality and under the same circumstances.
Standard of Care
It is the negative concept of responsibility for harm
Blame-responsibility and causation
Three types of explanation needed if there is an accident
1.Physical Cause
2. Organizational Cause
3. Individual responses/ accountable for the accident.
____________ in many ways parallels moral responsibility.
Legal liability
State the concepts of liability and moral responsibility of harm
- Intentionally and deliberately cause harm.
- Recklessly cause harm by not aiming but being aware of the result.
- Negligently causing harm
In law, a successful charge of negligence must meet four (4) conditions.
1.Legal obligation to conform to certain standards of conduct is present.
2. Person accused of negligence fails to conform to the standards.
3. Reasonably close causal connection between the conduct and the resulting harm.
4. Actual loss or damage
___________ are one of the principal mechanisms for managing complexity of any sort.
Standards
