CODE OF ETHICS
The following shall be a code of ethics to which all members shall adhere...
- Each member shall so order their professional conduct as to ensure
fidelity to their employer, fairness to associate and subordinate employees,
continuity and economy in the service for which they are responsible, and
devotion to the cardinal principles of good citizenship, courtesy and
personal honour.
- They shall subscribe to the provisions of the statutes governing and
identified with their profession, respecting them themselves and assisting
wherever possible with their observation and enforcement.
- They shall employ all honourable means to establish and consolidate in the
thought of all coming within their sphere or influence, understanding and
appreciation of their vocation.
- They shall, by personal example and careful instructions, pass on to such
as are worthy, knowledge of their calling to the end that true foundations
may underlie a forthcoming generation of their kind.
- They shall not use unfair means to gain vocational advancement for
themselves, nor shall they jeopardize the position of others, when seeking
to secure or retain employment.
- They shall offer their services for prospective engagement at a fair and
just rate of remuneration and shall decline to subscribe to any questionable
practice in this regard.
- They shall hold inviolate such confidential information as may be
entrusted to them concerning the technical processes and business affairs of
their employer.
- They shall earnestly direct attention to such hazards and dangers to life
and property as may be revealed in the pursuit of their calling, and be ever
prepared to sacrifice personal and private interest in the greater service
of safety.
- They shall, by co-operative endeavour, diligently seek to enhance the
status of all members, giving freely of their knowledge and skill to this
and all other engineering societies dedicated to the high ideals of honour
and unselfishness in the performance of a service vital to the well-being
and progress of mankind.
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