All surveyors and mappers are required to hold the public health, safety and welfare paramount; In the course of your profession however, you may be faced with dilemmas that call in to question your moral values, conduct and character. This one hour online course will help you decide what actions to take if faced with such dilemmas.
Standards of ethical conduct are examined in a variety of situations. The surveyor will focus on ethical issues in contemporary professional practice by looking at a sample of real ethical issues that professionals face.
Using the National Society of Professional Surveyors 'Surveyors Creed and Canons' and a sample 'Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct' as a guide (and applying the ethical decision making model), the surveyor will examine some of the everyday complex issues of professional practice, such as whistle-blowing, confidentiality and gifts.
This course includes a multiple choice quiz at the end.
The course will help you decide what actions to take:
if faced with a conflict of interest
if requested to seal plans you did not prepare
or, what to do if you observe unethical behavior in your workplace
define the makeup of Ethics.
Do you know how (or if!) you would object to an unethical management decision? Would you protect the public from serious harm, and, in the process, damage your career?
**Approved by the Florida Board of Professional Surveyors and Mappers from Provider John Herrick; Approval # CEP 053-01
**Approved by the Missouri Board of Professional Land Surveyors
**Approved by the Tennessee State Board of Examiners for Land Surveyors CER-484-01
**Approved by the New Jersey State Board of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors
1 hr. Online Course