Emergency and Security Management

Evaluating a Professional Code of Ethics:

Public or community safety profession – ideally the profession you are planning to work in or already work in: Emergency and Security Management

Description

You will find online an example of a Professional Code of Ethics from a public or community safety profession. You will evaluate the Code of Ethics by answering a series of structured questions.

Specification

Each question should be answered in one or two paragraphs.

Process

1. Find a relevant Code of Ethics for a public or community safety profession – ideally the profession you are planning to work in or already work in. To find a relevant Code of Ethics start by searching in the Illinois Institute of Technology Centre for the Study of Ethics in Professions: Codes of Ethics Online at

http://ethics.iit.edu/index1.php/Programs/Codes%20of%20Ethics

If you aren’t able to find anything in the IIT website, try Googling the name of your current or future profession plus “code of ethics”. Here’s a site for a U.S. Firefighters Codes of Ethics in Palm Beach found that way:

http://www.pbcfr.org/pdfs/TrainingAndSafety/COPD/FireFighter/QS_FireServiceCodeofEthics.pdf

And another for the Code of Ethics for the International Association of Emergency Managers:

http://www.iaem.com/about/IAEMCodeofEthics.htm

Here’s a code of ethics for family mediators in Canada: Members Code of Professional Conduct

If you are really not able to find a Code of Ethics for your current or future profession, e-mail me and I can perhaps suggest some search terms.

2. Read Exercise 8.2 in McLachlan , Ethics in Action: Making Ethical Decisions in Your Daily Life, pp. 268-269. Answer the questions McLachlan poses.

Look at additional materials for upload exercise 8.2

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