Douglas Wilhelm Harder

Updated for 2010 Changes to the Professional Engineers Act

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In addition to 77.3 which focuses on the ethical responsibilty a practitioner should show to his or her employer, other clauses of the Code of Ethics also refers directly or indirectly to the employer:

• 77.1.i It is the duty of a practitioner to the practitioner's employer to act at all times with fairness and loyalty to the practitioner's employers.
• 77.1.iv It is the duty of a practitioner to the practitioner's employer to act at all times with knowledge of developments in the area of professional engineering relevant to any services that are undertaken.
• 77.1.v It is the duty of a practitioner to the practitioner's employer to act at all times with competence in the performance of any professional engineering services that are undertaken.
• 77.5 A practitioner who is an employee-engineer and is contracting in the practitioner's own name to perform professional engineering work for other than the practitioner's employer, must provide the practitioner's client with a written statement of the nature of the practitioner's status as an employee and the attendant limitations on the practitioner's services to the client, must satisfy the practitioner that the work will not conflict with the practitioner's duty to the practitioner's employer, and must inform the practitioner's employer of the work.
• 77.6 A practitioner must co-operate in working with other professionals engaged on a project.
• 77.7.ii A practitioner shall not accept an engagement to review the work of another practitioner for the same employer except with the knowledge of the other practitioner or except where the connection of the other practitioner with the work has been terminated.