Regulations on Professional Conduct

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THE INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS, MALAYSIA REGULATIONS ON PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT NOTE: A Code of Professional Conduct designed to cover all eventualities must necessarily be written in general terms expressing broad ethical principles. Almost every case of doubt as to the proper course of action required to conform to the Code of Professional Conduct arises from a conflict between a member’s personal interest and his duty to others. Regulations issued by the Council to interpret the Code indicate the manner in which members are required to conduct themselves in a number of situations that are frequently encountered. In other situations, members are required to order their conduct in accordance with the principle that, in any conflict between a member’s personal interest and fair and honest dealing with other members of the community, his duty to the community must prevail. A. The following Regulations on Professional Conduct are made by the Council under Section IX of the Bylaws. In these regulations ‘member’ means a member of any grade referred to in Section II of the Bylaws, and ‘employer’ includes ‘client’. B. (1) A member shall at all times take care to ensure that his work and the products of his work constitute no avoidable danger of death or injury or ill health to any person. (2) A member shall take all reasonable steps to avoid waste of natural resources, damage of the environment, and wasteful damage or destruction of the products of human skill and industry. (3) A member shall take all reasonable steps to maintain and develop his professional competence by attention to new developments in science and engineering relevant to his field of professional activity and, if he is an employer, shall encourage his professional employees to do likeness. (4) A member shall not undertake responsibility as professional engineer

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