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We recognise the importance of professional activities for the quality of life and we accept an obligation to act with integrity in the public interest and to maintain and improve our competence. 1. HEALTH, SAFETY AND THE ENVIRONMENT We will at all times take care to ensure that our work and the products of our work constitutes no avoidable danger of death or injury or ill-health to any person. In addition, we will have due regard for the need to protect and sustain working and living environments, will make a systematic assessment of environmental, health and safety risks related to our work and our individual legal liability, and will inform clients whether or not professional indemnity insurance is held.
We will take all reasonable steps to maintain and develop our professional competence. We will encourage education and training towards the appropriate level of membership of any person in our charge registered with the appropriate professional body. 3. INTEGRITY AND RESPONSIBILITIES We will discharge our professional responsibilities with integrity and will accept responsibility for all work done by us, or under our supervision or direction, and will take all reasonable steps to ensure that persons working under our authority are competent to carry out the tasks assigned to them. We will ensure that we and the persons working under our authority undertake technological tasks for others only if qualified by training or expertise and after full disclosure of relevant limitations. We will treat subordinates fairly and without bias. 4. GRATUITIES, COMMISSIONS AND CONFLICT OF INTEREST 4.1 We will not, without disclosing the fact in writing to our clients, wittingly be a shareholder in, or act as agent for, any contracting or manufacturing company or firm or business with which we may have occasion to deal on behalf of their clients or have any financial interest in or receive any benefit from or on behalf of such a business. 4.2 We will not make false or exaggerated claims, or advertise any such claims expressly, in letters or articles for publication; nor will we permit others to use our name to endorse any such claims or in any form of advertising in relation to any product or process. 4.3 We will not improperly seek work as an independent adviser, or consultant, either directly or through an agent; nor will they improperly pay any person for the introduction of such work. 5. PROFESSIONAL REPUTATION If we are called upon
to give an opinion in our professional capacity we will, to the best of
our ability, give an opinion that is objective and reliable and that includes
clear statements of the impact and consequences of decisions and projects.
6. DISCRIMINATION We will not discriminate on grounds of age, sex, ethnicity, race, colour or creed. 7. CONTACT If you wish to raise any issues relating to the above please contact the company secretary. |